Ice Cream

Products from Asia, Europe and the US make this month's round up of what's new in the dairy aisles.

Round-up of October's new dairy products

By Mary Ellen Shoup and Jim Cornall

Another month has passed by, which means it's time to take a look at some of the latest additions to the dairy aisles from around the world.

Yoghurt Story New Zealand Limited has been fined for making misleading statements about its frozen yoghurt products. Pic: ©iStock/unalozmen

Yoghurt Story fined for yoghurt that isn’t yoghurt

By Jim Cornall

Yoghurt Story New Zealand Limited and Frozen Yoghurt Limited have been sentenced and fined in the Auckland District Court for misleading the public about their frozen yoghurt products.

What’s new in dairy? New products: September

What’s new in dairy? New products: September

By Jim Cornall and Mary Ellen Shoup

It's time for our monthly round-up of some of the latest dairy products and dairy-alternative products to hit the shelves around the world.  

Blue Bell recalled ice cream due to Listeria contamination last year

Dairy topped FDA food recalls last year, finds SAGE

By Joseph James Whitworth

Dairy products remained the top FDA recalled food category in 2015 with the Blue Bell ice cream Listeria contamination incident heavily behind this, according to SAGE Food Safety Consultants.

How do consumers choose ice cream? GNT Group has studied the reasons, and come up with the top five factors that affect the decision.

Top five factors when consumers buy ice cream

By Jim Cornall

Using worldwide consumer surveys, GNT Group, the Dutch global provider of food coloring concentrates, has put together the top five factors consumers are interested in when it comes to buying ice cream.

'We started out saying we wanted to be the Red Bull of the freezer cabinet. Now we want to go beyond that,' says protein ice cream start-up.

Protein ice cream: The Red Bull of the freezer aisle?

By Lynda Searby

Rising protein ice cream brand WheyHey isn’t stopping at being the 'Red Bull of the freezer aisle'; it wants to provide an alternative to the 'rubbish' food companies are serving up in every category, co-founder Damien Kennedy tells...

Tip Top is hoping a trial program introducing its ice cream to China through Tmall will be a sweet success.

Tip Top dips into China ice cream market

By Jim Cornall

Will Hokey Pokey be a hit in Hangzhou? New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra is hoping so, as it tries out its Tip Top ice cream in the Chinese market through Chinese e-commerce site Tmall.

UK sales: R&R clams slow market conditions and the timing of promotions has affected performance

Sales fall 1.3% at R&R Ice Cream

By Noli Dinkovski

R&R Ice Cream has posted a 1.3% drop in sales for the first quarter of 2016 as its acquisition of Nestlé’s South Africa business, fluctuating exchange rates, and tough European trading conditions hit like-for-like performance.

Nitropod's Food Truck and the CEO, Scot Rubin

Nitropod expects to enlarge its manufacturing plant

By Douglas Yu

The California-based liquid nitrogen ice cream company, Nitropod Industries Inc., plans on expanding its manufacturing plant and increasing the production this year, the company’s CEO, Scot Rubin, told DairyReporter. 

Unilever's single serve ice creams are all being limited to 250 calories.

Unilever capping ice cream calories

By Jim Cornall

Unilever has confirmed that from spring this year its entire adult single-serve ice cream range will contain 250 calories or fewer in the UK.

More than 90 competitors have signed up for the fifth Great Indian Ice Cream Contest.

Great Indian Ice Cream Contest sees more contestants

By Jim Cornall

DuPont Nutrition & Health, which provides food ingredient solutions to the global dairy industry, has launched the fifth season of The Great Indian Ice Cream Contest for ice cream manufacturers across India.

Savoury ice cream flavours tipped to be big

Savoury ice cream flavours tipped to be big

By Niamh Michail

Olive oil, black pepper, bread and cheese - restaurants and artisan ice cream makers are finding success with savoury flavours but will European manufacturers and retailers follow?

Finland set to scrap tax on sweets and ice cream

Finland set to scrap tax on sweets and ice cream

By Nathan Gray

The Finnish government has said a tax on sweets and ice cream in the country will be scrapped at the start of 2017 after the European Commission said the tax unfairly advantaged producers within the country.