TRYING TO BE FAHAD

Summer’s here and it is hot as EVER! Cooling down with cold water or diet soda can get dull (although you should always reach for that bottle to avoid dehydration), so Mark asked for an ice cream post literally ONE YEAR AGO. He kept on nagging me ever since….

There are A LOT of choices out there, so I’m going to have to break this ice cream post into multiple ones.

Criteria

• 1st ingredient has to be milk and not cream. Milk means more protein and calcium. Cream means more fat and nothing else.
• Maximum of 2 sources of sugar.
• Below 10 grams of fat per serving.
• Below 30 grams of net carbohydrates per serving.
• Below 20 grams of sugar per serving.
• Below 200 calories per serving.
• At least 60% purity (natural ingredients)

IGLOO No Sugar Added Low Fat Ice Cream – Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate

At first glance, this stuff looks awesome. Take a look:

Per 1/2-Cup

Calories 77

Protein 2 grams

Net Carbohydrates 8 grams

Sugar 1 gram

Fiber 2 grams

Fat 3 grams

Look at those spectacular numbers. You’ll never find ice cream like this, and it tastes great too! Here’s the “but” part:

• Ingredient #2: Lactitol
• Ingredient #3: Milk Fat
• Ingredient #4: Malitol
• Ingredient #5: Polydextrose
• Ingredient #6: Cocoa, Strawberry or Vanilla Powder
• Ingredient #7: Emulsifier Mono and diglycerides of fatty acids
• Ingredient #8: Stabilizers Polysorbate, Carreegnan and Sodium Alginate
• Ingredient #9: Aspartame, Acesulfame K

And the list goes on. Seriously- there are more ingredients.

Ingredients 2, 4, 5, and 9 are not found in real ice cream. They’re used to keep this stuff sugar-free and relatively low carb. I’m good with polydextrose since it’s adding in much needed fiber (although artificial, but fiber nonetheless), but I’m not comfortable with lactilol, malitol and aspartame. The first two will give you an unbelievable bloat, gas and diarhhea. Aspartame has been proven many times to mess you up (too many side effects to list here).

Is this legit diet ice cream? Sure. Do I recommend consuming this? Unless you’re comfortable with ingesting ingredients you can’t pronounce, then go right ahead.

Vendor: The Sultan Center, Lulu Hypermarket and all co-ops.

Per Stick

Calories 130 – 90- 110

Protein 3 – 3 – 4 grams

Net Carbohydrates 20 – 17 – 20 grams

Sugar 16 – 15 – 16 gram

Fiber 4 – 4- 5 grams

Fat 4.5 – 1- 1 grams

Weight Watchers Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich

Per Sandwich

Calories 120

Protein 3 grams

Net Carbohydrates 25 grams

Sugar 11 grams

Fiber 3 grams

Fat 2 grams

I forgot to take a picture of the ingredient list of the Weight Watchers ice cream. However, I do recall a very short ingredient list, with only 1 man-made ingredient called polydextrose, which is a food ingredient classified as soluble fiber and is frequently used to increase the non-dietary fiber content of food and replace sugar.

Vendor: Lulu Hypermarket.

Breyer’s French Vanilla, Vanilla Fudge Twirl, Extra Creamy Chocolate, Butter Pecan

Per 1/2-Cup

Calories 140 – 130 – 140 – 150

Protein 3 – 2 – 2 – 2 grams

Net Carbohydrates 14 – 17 – 16 -14 grams

Sugar 14 – 15 – 15 – 14 gram

Fiber 0 – 0 – 1 – 0 grams

Fat 7 – 6 – 7 – 10 grams

• French Vanilla Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Sugar, Egg Yolk, Natural Flavor, Natural Tara Gum.
• Vanilla Fudge Twirl Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Sugar, Whey, Natural Tara Gum, Natural Flavor. Fudge Twirl: Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Whey, Cream, Natural Tara Gum, Salt.
• Extra Creamy Chocolate Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Sugar, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Corn Syrup, Whey, Carob Bean Gum, Guar Gum.
• Butter Pecan Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Sugar, Butter Pecans (Pecans, Butter, Cottonseed Oil, Salt), Whey, Natural Flavor, Natural Tara Gum, Salt.

You see anything you don’t know how to pronounce? Anything out of the ordinary? You shouldn’t, because all the ingredients are found in true authentic all-natural ice cream. This trumps all for PURITY.

The French Vanilla beats all the flavors since it contains less ingredients and one source of sugar. Extra Creamy Chocolate comes in second, Vanilla Fudge Twirl takes third and Butter Pecan finishes last for its high calorie and fat content.

Vendor: Lulu Hypermarket and The Sultan Center.