Ice Cream: Reviews

Updated March 2008
 

Best vanilla ice cream

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Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Cook's Illustrated used 20 people to sample 18 vanilla ice creams, both French style (prepared with egg yolks) and regular style ...

ConsumerReports.org: Consumer Reports' website removes reports older than four years because they may be too old to be of use. This July 2002 rating ...

Kitchen Addiction: Food blogger Rachel Albrecht and six friends blind taste-test nine vanilla ice creams. Häagen-Dazs Vanilla ties for fourth (Ben ...

Every Day with Rachael Ray: Jane Black is a veteran food writer, but this review suffers from non-disclosure of the losing products and testing methods. For ...

Chowhound.com: Chowhound.com is a message board, so anyone can post, but the uninformed are usually shouted down. A lot of the posters pick ...

 

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Best chocolate ice cream

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Cook's Country: Cook's Country, sibling magazine to Cook's Illustrated, taste-tests seven popular ice cream brands, recommending two.

Detroit News: Four tasters test seven chocolate ice creams, with Edy's Grand tying for last place (Kroger's supermarket brand wins). Tasters ...

ConsumerReports.org: This article can no longer be found on Consumer Reports' website since it's so outdated. This July 2002 report includes ...

York Daily Record/Sunday News: This Pennsylvania newspaper had four teens try five chocolate ice creams, with Edy's Grand tying for first. Two things give us ...

 

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Best low-fat ice cream

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The Boston Globe: The Boston Globe conducted a taste test of five low-fat ice creams, using an unspecified number of tasters. Breyers Light is the ...

ConsumerReports.org: Consumer Reports usually requires a subscription to see its articles, but every so often throws a free one to the masses, such as ...

Good Housekeeping: Good Housekeeping had 19 testers taste 15 low-fat vanilla ice creams, some sweetened with sugar and others with no sugar added. ...

Real Simple: This report picks winners in six categories, but doesn't say how many products were tried and how they were tested. For what it's ...

Fitness Magazine: Fitness magazine says nutritionists narrowed the field in each category and then "dozens of staffers" tasted the top ice creams ...

 

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