The six most fattening ice creams
Posted: May 30th 2008 11:00AM by Maggie Vink
Filed under: Food and Nutrition
Oh, ice cream ... heaven in a bowl. Now that the weather is getting warmer, a trip to the ice cream store is always a welcome treat. But that's exactly what ice cream should be ... a once in a while treat. Eat it too often and your hips (and butt, and stomach ... ) could pay the price. This decadent treat can pack a whopping calorie punch.
Newsweek counts down the six biggest ice cream offenders (via
Fitsugar).
- Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter (360 calories, 24 grams of fat)
- Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby (330 calories, 20 grams of fat)
- Haagen-Dazs Butter Pecan (310 calories, 23 grams of fat)
- Sheer Bliss Pomegranate with chocolate chips (320 calories, 20 grams of fat)
- Ben and Jerry's Vermonty Python (300 calories, 19 grams of fat)
- Coldstone Cookie Batter (300 calories, 19 grams of fat)
If you have to have your ice cream fix, search your grocery store freezer for lighter alternatives such as sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, or light varieties of ice cream. (Be sure to check the label, though. Sometimes "light" isn't all it's cracked up to be.) And, if you're like me, you'll still indulge in a Coldstone "Like it" Cake Batter (with chucks of yellow cake and chocolate shavings) once in a while, because sometimes we all deserve a special treat!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-30-2008 @ 10:00PM
marcie0305 said...
I say look for the more natural ice creams, which will contain more real cream for flavor instead of sugar. It's likely the sugar that is fattening, not the fat! I was also looking at Cold Stone's ingredients recently, lots and lots of chemicals in that stuff:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coldstonecreamery.com%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2Fnutrition%2FIngredients_Ice_Cream_Sorbet_08_04_06.pdf&ei=xqtASIC0CaSeiAGuw7GoAw&usg=AFQjCNFb5xq9KPRTxrerQwOI_MIa8jjWjA&sig2=nZtkfguxhzRgFmJ5q0EHEQ
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :)
~Marcie
http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com
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5-31-2008 @ 2:17PM
Kathy Luebbe said...
Your choices are limited to nationwide choices. I would bet Graeter's ice cream in Cincinnati OH would be in the top six in several flavors. Each flavor contains 18% butterfat just for starts!
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5-31-2008 @ 8:42PM
richard said...
Graeter's is awesome!!! I only lived in OH for a year and I still remember it as the best ice cream ever.
5-31-2008 @ 4:53PM
mtncatwoman said...
If you don't mind the calories, and have the time, you can't beat home made. Give me peach or strawberry homemade any day!
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5-31-2008 @ 4:53PM
Gary Olszewski said...
give it up!! Foods like ice cream, hot dogs, pizza, and others are not SUPPOSED to be healthy,as Madison Avenue and the food police would have us believe! They're supposed to make you FEEL GOOD!! regardless of their effect on your health! I once worked in a Walgreens store, as a checkout clerk, a man came to the counter with a number of items, including a container if ice cream labelled "fat-free" and "no sugar". I was almost ready to ring it up when he thought a moment and told me "Why am I getting this junk? Ice cream with no fat or sugear? I must be nuts! Wait a minute!" he went back to the freezer section and replaced it with the real stuff. True story.
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5-31-2008 @ 4:53PM
enufs enuf said...
THERE IS NO BETTER ICE CREAM ON THE MARKET BETTER THAN TOASTED ALMOUND BY DREYERS ,BET YOU JUST CAN'T JUST EAT A SPOONFUL.
5-31-2008 @ 4:55PM
skinnyminnie said...
IF I THOUGHT THAT I COULD GAIN 25 POUNDS EATING ICE CREAM, I'D HAVE IT FOR EVERY MEAL AND BETWEEN MEAL SNACKS!! IT ADDS NO WEIGHT TO ME!!! SO I BELIEVE THIS IDEA OF GAINING BY EATING ICE CREAM IS BALDERDASH!!!
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5-31-2008 @ 4:55PM
Frank Tomei said...
We have reached the era of ''anything'' that taste good==is NOT good for you. I eat all that taste good, by pass any and all that does not suit my taste. as of this time of my life i am past 88 yrs and people think i am 70.
No secret, you put on weight when your intake is above your Daily movement. Keep moving and watch your excess disappear. It is not magic, its good sense. Try it you'll like it!===An old coger, GO !
people are
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5-31-2008 @ 8:39PM
Judy, NYC said...
I, too finally realized that if you eat a normal amount of anything at all, and walk places you don't get fat. Ice cream, though, mmmm. I just have never been able to eat just a normal amount, so I don't buy pints or quarts (!!), just a serving maybe at Baskin Robbins. If it's in my freezer, put a fork in it.
5-31-2008 @ 4:55PM
Beegie said...
You should try Texas Blue Bell Ice Cream --YUMMMMM
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5-31-2008 @ 4:56PM
John Howell said...
Calling these products "offenders" is fantastically narrow-minded and the work of a pack of health Nazis. If you're not looking to watch the fat and calories, I'm sure they're all quite delicious.
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5-31-2008 @ 4:56PM
chole said...
if you are looking to have that "special treat"
then go to sweet sensations, its not too heavy and not too light. its just right, coldstone sucks :[
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5-31-2008 @ 6:00PM
na said...
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5-31-2008 @ 8:39PM
Tris said...
Ever try Sebastian Joe's around Minneapolis? TRUST!!!! It's no joke, especially their variety of handmade flavors and coated waffle cones.
5-31-2008 @ 7:19PM
Tom Sirmons said...
You haven't lived until you discover 'Bluebell Natural Vanilla Bean' ice cream. Adding anything to it, including any sort of topping, is blasphemous.
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5-31-2008 @ 7:49PM
Patti said...
Dreyer's Vanilla Bean...YUMMY!!
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5-31-2008 @ 8:30PM
DD from FL said...
THANK GOODNESS HANGEN-DAZS "CARMEL CONE" WASN'T ON THE LIST
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5-31-2008 @ 8:31PM
Angiebaby said...
Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby? What's next... "Fat-Assed Ball and Chain" flavor?
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5-31-2008 @ 8:31PM
annie t. said...
Graeter's Ice cream is "The Nectar of the Gods"!
People have this shipped all over the USA. Their raspberry sorbet is delicious too.
If people come to Ohio, they always ask if there is a Graeter's shop.
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5-31-2008 @ 8:31PM
Patti said...
Dreyer's Vanilla Bean. YUMMY!!
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