product update
ice cream
Freezer fillers
Froberry, the Irish frozen yoghurt, is now available to retailers in the UK through Oakland International and 3663. Froberry was established in 2010 and has been supplying outlets across Ireland for the past year with the product, which is gluten-free and sweetened with organic nectar rather than refined sugar. It comes in a variety of flavours – including green tea, berry, mango and vanilla – in 474ml and 120ml pots (RRPs £4.65 and £1.95).
Frozen yoghurts, coconut milk ice cream and savoury flavours are among the latest innovations in speciality ice creams and sorbets. LYNDA SEARBY reports.
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Mackie’s of Scotland is responding to consumer demand with a new ‘Indulgent’ range. Owner Karin Mackie says consumers were asking for “a new indulgent range that was easier to scoop, environmentally friendly and with no artificial ingredients, and that had more flavour and ripple or pieces”. Mackies hopes the four flavours – rum & raisin, butterscotch, strawberries & cream and toffee apple – will deliver on all these counts. The ice cream, which retails at £3.49 for a 1 litre tub, is made on the family’s Aberdeenshire farm in a factory powered by wind turbines.
www.froberry.com
www.mackies.co.uk
Strawberries and balsamic vinegar are a classic combination in Italy, and now UK consumers are warming to the idea too. Mendip Moments will recreate this pairing in a limited edition sorbet flavour. The strawberry & balsamic sorbet and a limited edition white Huddersfield-based Yummy Yorkshire’s new beetroot ice cream might not become a best seller, but it will provide a talking point. The producer, which also runs an ice cream parlour in the town, created the flavour for the 2011 Great Taste Awards and made it a permanent fixture in the range
after it scooped one star. Other new ice cream flavours from Yummy Yorkshire include dandelion & burdock, malted chocolate & honeycomb and Jaffa Cake. All the flavours come in 500ml tubs with an RRP of £3.75. www.yummyyorkshire.co.uk
The launch of lemon curd ice cream, rhubarb ice cream and strawberry sorbet has signalled the arrival of spring at Jude’s Ice Cream. The Hampshire company focuses on seasonal flavours using locally sourced ingredients and donates 10% of profits each year to charity. The flavours come in 4 litre catering tubs.
Callestick Farm’s 500ml tubs of ice cream are now sporting a new look after an overhaul by design agency Red Rocket in Exeter. The packaging is intended to portray a premium feel and the products’ Cornish farm provenance.
www.judes.co.uk
www.callestickfarm.co.uk
It’s the coming of the coconut Coconut water is big in beverages, and now it seems coconut milk ice cream could soon be a familiar sight in the freezer cabinet. Bessant & Drury claims to make the UK’s only coconut milk ice cream and, since launching in 2011, is now listed in 85 outlets in the UK, including Whole Foods Market in London and Glasgow, Planet Organic,
As Nature Intended, Partridges in London and Sunny Foods in Brighton. The company says it chose coconut because of its nutritional and health benefits – rich in fibre, it reputedly boosts the metabolism and improves calcium and magnesium absorption. The firm says its product offers the taste, texture and appearance of a premium ice cream,
chocolate with raspberry marble ice cream will be available in time for Easter. Both products have an RRP of around £4.49 for 500ml and are sporting the new design (pictured) that has been rolled out across the range. www.mendipmoments.co.uk
Top sellers…
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despite being dairy-free. The coconut ice cream currently comes in four flavours (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and lemon) in 500ml tubs (RRP £4.99), with 125ml and napolis also available. 2012 will see the extension of the range with the launch of coffee, coconut and two other flavours. www.bessantanddrury.com
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