The so called champions of ice cream respectively took silver in this competition by the slimmest of margins. Let’s be real, when you think ice cream, you think Ben & Jerry’s. I guess that’s what makes its healthy, but come on, a few extra cookie dough balls won’t pack on the pounds. The only complaint? We need more cookie dough bites. Our testers loved how it actually had a similar texture and consistency like regular ice cream and wasn’t too overwhelmingly sweet or artificial tasting. Surprise, surprise, the original “healthy ice cream” heavyweight shot straight to the top. Halo Top, specifically the cookie dough flavor, ended up being our favorite healthy ice cream we had during the taste test. Did the cream really rise to the top? Or was it too calorie heavy and got weighed down with the rest of them? Here’s what we found: The winner: Halo Top We then calculated the taste and texture score for each ice cream, then averaged them together to get the overall score of the ice cream. Since not all of the ice cream brands offered identical flavors, we had all of the ice creams being tested have a vanilla base, resulting mainly in sampling cookie dough and cookies n’ cream flavors. As per our usual rules, one bite was all you could take. We had our office rank each flavor on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being the worst and 5 being the best, based on taste as well as texture. We’ve done it with chips, we’ve done it with Oreos and we’ve even done it with frozen pizza, so we returned to our faithful set up of a blind taste test.

These pints certainly aren't equivalent to eating fruits and veggies, yet they’re certainly less calories and less sugar than a regular ice cream counterpart, so we had to ask ourselves, “Yeah, but do they actually taste good?” How we tested And personal at-home ice cream makers? Forget about it. Treating yourself to a soft serve cone from the ice cream man is for days long ago.

Since emerging on the market a few years ago, these high protein, low calorie ice creams have taken over grocery store shelves. Regardless, sometimes you just need to sit on the couch, put on a mindless movie Netflix specifically recommended for you, and inhale an entire pint of ice cream to the face-enter, “healthy” ice cream. I’m no doctor, but it’s what I’ve heard through the grapevine. Apparently, eating an entire pint of ice cream by yourself isn’t the healthiest choice.

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