Ben & Jerry’s top flavors: in order of calories???
Ben & Jerry’s is now owned by Unilever.
Here are its top-ten best-selling flavors:
- Half Baked: unbaked cookie dough and baked fudge brownies.
- Cherry Garcia: in the top three since its launch in 1987
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- Chocolate Fudge Brownie: this contains brownies from New York’s Greyston Bakery, which provides jobs and training to low-income people in Yonkers
- Tonight Dough: Jimmy Fallon’s second flavor; proceeds to SeriousFun Children’s Network
- Strawberry Cheesecake
- Phish Food: since 1997
- Americone Dream: a partnership with Stephen Colbert, whose staff chooses the nonprofit its proceeds go to
- Chunky Monkey: banana ice cream with fudge chunks and walnuts
- Brownie Batter Core
Whether or not proceeds go to charity, these are commercial ice creams, and highly caloric, ultra-processed ones at that.
Here, for example, is the ingredient list for a Cherry Garcia.
CREAM, SKIM MILK, LIQUID SUGAR (SUGAR, WATER), WATER, CHERRIES, SUGAR, EGG YOLKS, COCONUT OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CONCENTRATES (COLOR), COCOA POWDER, GUAR GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CARRAGEENAN, MILK FAT, SOY LECITHIN.
