Various vanilla ice cream brands
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Ranking Popular Vanilla Ice Cream Brands By The Quality Of Ingredients
BY Melissa Cabey
13. Favorite Day
Target's Favorite Day Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream lists high fructose corn syrup as its third ingredient, yet there's no mention of actual vanilla beans.
Nonfat milk is also used, leading to a less-creamy-tasting ice cream. Ultimately, it lacks key features that ice cream fans would want.
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Vividly Vanilla Deluxe Ice Cream from Kroger is sold at about half the price of other ice creams available at the store. Unfortunately, there's a reason for the low cost.
It has many ingredients, such as corn syrup and whey. Kroger's Vanilla Ice Cream also lacks the egg yolks and vanilla beans often used in high-quality brands.
11. Market Pantry
Another Target brand, Market Pantry, is an affordable ice cream. However, the ice cream also features an extensive list of ingredients used to make it.
It's a lighter-calorie ice cream as it doesn't use cream, which results in a thinner, less creamy consistency. It doesn't list vanilla beans, only natural and artificial flavors.
10. Great Value
Great Value Homestyle Vanilla includes the word "flavored" on its carton, revealing that its taste isn't derived from actual vanilla beans.
The recipe uses milk, cream, plain sugar, and egg yolks, often found in high-quality ice cream. Unfortunately, it also has the low-quality sweetener corn syrup.
9. Breyers
Despite Breyers Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream using some high-quality ingredients, it's also mixed in with a good amount of low ones.
It has milk, cream, sugar, and egg yolks, but it also has corn syrup, whey, and a list of additives that aren't necessary. Vanilla beans are also not listed as an ingredient.