Tried and Tested: Swedish Glace Strawberry soy ice cream lollies

Another range of new 'ice creams' on the market - suitable for Vegans! They aren't packaged as being vegan-friendly, but from what I have found online this is just due to possibilities of cross-contamination in the manufacturing process, rather than because anything in it is non-vegan. Swedish Glace have had (for a long time) sold vanilla-flavoured soya frozen ice cream. Recently I noticed that they have expanded their range, to include strawberry-flavoured, chocolate-coated ice-cream style lollies and new tubs of strawberry and chocolate ice cream. Unfortunately, I am yet to get my hands on the tubs and will update as soon as I've had a chance to try some. 

Tried and Tested

I did however, get the opportunity to try to strawberry-chocolate lollies. They were £2.99 for 5 lollies in Tesco. I was delighted to see that each lolly is only 117 calories each. They are a little high in saturated fat though...7.7g fat - 5.3g saturated fat (all the tasty things are!) so I wouldn't recommend eating them all the time.

I was disappointed when I realised just how little they are! They are literally 4 bites big. The strawberry ice cream, with strawberry sauce was delicious - a decent strawberry flavour and not too much of the traditional soya flavour making its way in to spoil the taste. The chocolate was a little disappointing though - it tasted like really cheap chocolate and had a strange texture - a bit like cheap choc-ices (although, I suppose if you like those, you will like these!)

I would say these are not worth the money. I think the tubs are much better value - you get much more for your money and you get more of the best bit - the ice cream! Not sure i'll buy these again in a hurry. They were tasty, but not extraordinary. However, this is only my take on it!

2.5/5

Ingredients:

Water, Sugar, Vegetable Oils (Palm, Coconut, Rapeseed), Dextrose, Soya Bean Powder (4.6%), Strawberries (2.8%), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Emulsifiers (Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Citric Acid Esters of Mono- and Di-Glycerides of Fatty Acids, Sunflower Lecithin), Salt, Stabilisers (Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Pectin), Red Beetroot Juice Concentrate, Flavouring, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid)