Ben & Jerry's transitions to oat base

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Milk- and Dairy Alternatives

Ben & Jerry’s Announces Major Shift to Oat Based Formula

Ben & Jerry’s, headquartered in Vermont, announces it will shift its non-dairy ice creams to an oat-based formula, with most of its range til now being produced with almond milk. The nearly 20 existing non-dairy flavors in pints and scoop shops will make the switch to oat by Spring 2024, beginning with Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Chocolate Fudge Brownie. Current non-dairy flavors like Lights! Caramel! Action! and Oatmeal Dream Pie feature almond or sunflower butter bases, which will switch to oat to offer a “smoother texture, allowing flavors like chocolate, decadent caramel, mint, and rich vanilla to shine as intended,” and creating more suitability for consumers that suffer from nut allergies. The benefits of oats Consumer preference in dairy alternatives has been towards oat …

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Sweets & Snacks

Creating Familiar Yet Luxurious Plant-Based Alternatives: The Case of Ben & Jerry’s

This article is of the Vegconomist X ProVeg International New Food Hub article series, which aims to make actionable insights into the plant-based space more readily accessible. ProVeg International has recently published a case study detailing US ice-cream brand Ben & Jerry’s expansion into the plant-based market. The case study explores how Ben & Jerry’s utilised its existing USP of indulgence to successfully market its plant-based ice cream. In 2022, Ben & Jerry’s plant-based ice cream products account for 32% of its entire US range, with 20/62 of its products being dairy-free. Such an expansive range allows the company to target not only vegans and vegetarians, but also flexitarians and those who are lactose intolerant (75% of global consumers!). Ben & Jerry’s approaches the plant-based …

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Food & Beverage

Bruster’s Real Ice Cream Re-Launches Dairy-Free Ice Cream Line with 14 New Flavors

Bruster’s Real Ice Cream, an American chain of ice cream parlors, announces the re-launch of its non-dairy frozen dessert line. Made with oat milk, the new line features 14 vegan flavors which will be rotated at each Bruster’s location. The re-launch marks one of the largest QSR rollouts of vegan ice cream to date.  Bruster’s operates nearly 200 independently-owned locations in 22 states, as well as stores in Guyana and South Korea. The chain is known for serving old-fashioned, handcrafted ice cream scoops, cones and sundaes. For its dairy-free line, Bruster’s chose to work with oat milk, which it says “delivers a superior, creamier product, rivaling any other product.”  “A superior taste and recipe” The oat milk ice cream will be available in a range of …

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Food & Beverage

KLIMON Debuts Decadent Line of Almond-Based Ice Cream at Walmart

KLIMON, a maker of frozen dairy-free dessert pints, is launching its debut line of almond-based ice creams at select US Walmart stores, with a national release in the works.  Available in five decadent flavors, KLIMON says its products use a proprietary almond-based blend to deliver the same richness and texture of dairy ice cream.  The five flavors include:  Morning Brew – Coffee flavored ice cream with real almonds and fudge swirl. Caramel Brûlée: Salted caramel flavored dessert with chocolate cookie crumbs and a caramelized sugar swirl. Mint Condition: Mint ice cream with mini chocolate chips and a fudge swirl. Cherry Bomb: Cherry flavored ice cream with real bordeaux cherry chunks and cherry swirl. Sunrise Bang: Creamy orange flavor with cream flavored swirl. Dairy-free ice creams …

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Products & Launches

With New Flavor Launches, Ben & Jerry’s Entire Range is Now 40% Dairy-Free

Premium ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s announced the addition of two new plant-based flavors to the company’s ice cream lineup. The Non-Dairy Boom Chocolatta and Non-Dairy Bananas Foster bring the brand’s official dairy-free count to 20 products. Both flavors are also being released as part of the Core range – ice cream filled with a dense, spoonable center down the middle of the pint.  The Boom Chocolatta pint features mocha and caramel ice cream combined with fudge flakes, gluten-free chocolate cookies and a gluten-free chocolate cookie core. While Ben & Jerry’s usually offers dairy and vegan versions for each flavor, the new Bananas Foster is exclusively made for the Non-Dairy line. The ice cream consists of a banana and cinnamon base mixed blended with almond …

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Studies & Numbers

abillion Reveals World’s 10 Best Vegan Ice Creams for 2021

Following its similar report from this May regarding the world’s best frozen vegan food, abillion, the digital platform promoting sustainability and plant-based food, has released the results of its World’s 10 Best Vegan Ice Creams 2021. abillion forecasts the vegan ice cream market is to grow USD $520 million in 2019 to USD $1.2 billion in 2025. “The surge in the popularity of plant-based ice cream products can be attributed to burgeoning consumer interest for dairy-free desserts” abillion evaluated 9,000 reviews of ice cream products posted in the past 12 months by members in 64 countries, according to consumer ratings, the number of reviews, and consumer sentiment scores. World’s 10 Best Vegan Ice Creams 2021: 1. Dairy Free Almond (Magnum, USA) 2. Not Icecream Chocolate …

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Products & Launches

Ben & Jerry’s Now Has 19 Vegan Flavours & is the Biggest Producer of Premium Dairy-Free Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry’s reports that it is now the number one producer of “super-premium” non-dairy desserts, as it releases five new dairy-free flavours for a total of 19 vegan-friendly products. The Vermont based company creates the vegan versions of its popular dairy products with almond milk and sunflower butter. The newly veganised flavours are: Colin Kaepernick’s Change the Whirled, Tonight Dough starring Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream, Karamel Sutra and Phish Food. Change the Whirled was created in partnership with vegan athlete Colin Kaepernick, with 100% of Kaepernick’s proceeds going to Know Your Rights Camp, the non-profit organization he co-founded that works to fight systemic oppression against Black and Brown people. Change the Whirled features a sunflower butter caramel base with fudge chips, graham …

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Food & Beverage

Special Report: Phenomenal Growth in Vegan Ice-Cream

A report of the most important trends between 2018-2022 by Technavio observed that over the last decade, the number of people preferring vegan diets has increased by 300%, and identified the global vegan ice cream market as a key market trend which is expected to continue to its growth within this period. The vegan ice-cream market will reach $2.45 billion by 2027 according to a further report by OpenPR, which predicted that “Towards the end of 2027, the global consumption of plant-based ice-creams will reach 500 thousand tonnes”

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