Sugar is so important to look out for in ice cream! Many brands, including healthy ones, will add in loads of sugar into your ice cream. Once you see over 20g of sugar per serving, you should get suspicious.

In my opinion, sugar should be the first thing you check, then calories and then the amount of fat.

From all the ice cream flavors, the safest bet will be to choose vanilla or chocolate. Those will have the least added ingredients and flavorings. Especially if your ice cream brand isn’t healthy, try not picking, cookies n’ cream… or anything extra fancy like that.

From all the unhealthy ice cream brands, Haagen Dazs would be the healthiest option. The reason for that, is because it has the simplest ingredients. Eggs, sugar, milk… no additives, preservatives or unnecessary chemicals. This is for the Vanilla flavor.

Marketing gimmicks can be confusing to comprehend, so you want to first check the ingredients and nutrition label. Ex: If you have a choice of 2 ice creams, 1. organic and “natural” and it has 25g of sugar per serving. or 2. an ice cream that’s not organic, yet it has 10g of sugar, go with the ice cream that has 10g of sugar. Don’t get fooled by the healthy labels, it doesn’t automatically make the food healthy.

The best sweetener for your ice cream would be coconut sugar. It’s low glycemic, which means that the sugar will release into your blood slowly.

If you see any suspicious chemical ingredients on your ice cream, try to get a new ice cream! Common preservatives and unhealthy ingredients found in ice cream would be: caramel coloring, carrageenan and corn syrup.