These Grocery Store 'Ice Creams' Aren't Really Ice Cream At All

NEWS

By Holly Riddle

Oreo sandwiches feature two giant Oreo cookies with Oreo-flavored ice cream in the middle, which the box describes as a "crème-flavored frozen dairy dessert."
Oreo Sandwich
The frozen dairy dessert is mostly "dairy product solids," which are just dairy products that have undergone a change — mainly the extraction of protein or lactose.
Blue Bunny is careful never to actually say that its mini bars contain any ice cream, instead describing the bars' interiors as "creamy vanilla goodness."
Blue Bunny
The primary ingredients include skim milk, sugar, whey, corn syrup, and buttermilk. Due to the quantity and proportions of ingredients, it doesn't technically qualify as ice cream.
A Good Humor strawberry shortcake bar is mostly nonfat milk, and the "cake crunch" coating is made from flour, sugar, oil, salt, baking soda, and red food dyes.
Good Humor
Also described as a "crème-flavored frozen dairy dessert" by the brand, Oreo ice cream mainly contains monoglyceride, a form of fat, and guar gum and carob bean gum.
Oreo Ice Cream
Despite being made with milk, Turkey Hill ice cream doesn't have the right quantities and proportions to be considered real ice cream.
Turkey Hill