Comments on: Scoop 31: Breyers Natural Vanilla http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/ One ice cream a day, for 365 days. Read my ice cream reviews, rants, and raves at ADailyScoop.com Fri, 16 May 2008 15:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: TheropodX http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-13359 TheropodX Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:03:07 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-13359 So sad. I just bought a box of Breyers Natural Vanilla and discovered it tastes awful. Looked at the ingredients and found they messed with the decades-old recipe. My grandfather delivered Breyers ice cream his entire life. Sad to think after all those years they actually abandoned the natural ingredients. I won't buy it again. So sad. I just bought a box of Breyers Natural Vanilla and discovered it tastes awful. Looked at the ingredients and found they messed with the decades-old recipe. My grandfather delivered Breyers ice cream his entire life. Sad to think after all those years they actually abandoned the natural ingredients. I won’t buy it again.

]]> By: Expert1 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-11505 Expert1 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:24:46 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-11505 I purchased some Breyer's ice cream today. I hadn't had it in years because I have been making my own but I just wanted some fast and so I broke down and bought it. I was supposed to be French Vanilla. It was flavorless-truly it had NO flavor. Not even vanilla. It didn't occur to me to check the ingredients-which was my own fault in the manufactured food world-should have checked it before I bought it. It was positively the worst ice cream I have EVER put in my mouth! It has a horrible chemical after taste with a chalk like texture-what happened to the yummy vanilla bean? Where did the tara gum come from? I don't put it in my ice cream. The Breyer's was so nasty. The other family members tasted it and agreed. We could not eat it and just dumped it in the trash. Not buying that manufactured, processed stuff anymore. It is not the sweet, creamy product it used to be. The only choices now are to switch to organic, made your own, or just pass on ice cream. But I will never, ever buy that nasty, tasteless "product" again. Shame on me, I should have read the ingredient list. Words cannot describe how horrible that ice cream was. Never again! I purchased some Breyer’s ice cream today. I hadn’t had it in years because I have been making my own but I just wanted some fast and so I broke down and bought it.

I was supposed to be French Vanilla. It was flavorless-truly it had NO flavor. Not even vanilla. It didn’t occur to me to check the ingredients-which was my own fault in the manufactured food world-should have checked it before I bought it.

It was positively the worst ice cream I have EVER put in my mouth! It has a horrible chemical after taste with a chalk like texture-what happened to the yummy vanilla bean? Where did the tara gum come from? I don’t put it in my ice cream. The Breyer’s was so nasty. The other family members tasted it and agreed. We could not eat it and just dumped it in the trash.

Not buying that manufactured, processed stuff anymore. It is not the sweet, creamy product it used to be. The only choices now are to switch to organic, made your own, or just pass on ice cream. But I will never, ever buy that nasty, tasteless “product” again. Shame on me, I should have read the ingredient list. Words cannot describe how horrible that ice cream was. Never again!

]]> By: Mike Murphy http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-10894 Mike Murphy Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:48:37 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-10894 GOOD NEWS!! Good bye Breyer’s “Natural” Vanilla, Hello Blue Bunny Premium all natural Vanilla Ice Cream. Ingredients: Milk, cream, sugar, skim milk, Grade A Nonfat dry milk, Egg Yolks, Natural Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Beans…period. No guar gum, carob bean gum, tara gum, carageenan, or any of those other nasty smoothing agents. The best mass produced vanilla ice cream on the market since the original Breyer’s Light Vanilla before they started mucking it up, and maybe better than that was (it’s hard to say, because they screwed it up years ago!) I used to HATE Blue Bunny Ice Cream, but they have come up with some pretty good ones lately. Even the ones that do have gums in them are better than anything Breyer’s makes now. St. Louis, MO. GOOD NEWS!! Good bye Breyer’s “Natural” Vanilla, Hello Blue Bunny Premium all natural Vanilla Ice Cream. Ingredients: Milk, cream, sugar, skim milk, Grade A Nonfat dry milk, Egg Yolks, Natural Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Beans…period. No guar gum, carob bean gum, tara gum, carageenan, or any of those other nasty smoothing agents. The best mass produced vanilla ice cream on the market since the original Breyer’s Light Vanilla before they started mucking it up, and maybe better than that was (it’s hard to say, because they screwed it up years ago!) I used to HATE Blue Bunny Ice Cream, but they have come up with some pretty good ones lately. Even the ones that do have gums in them are better than anything Breyer’s makes now. St. Louis, MO.

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]]> By: John http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-1980 John Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:20:10 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-1980 The corporate giant, Unilever, has been quietly shrinking the size of all their consumer products and substituting cheaper ingredients. (1.75qt ice cream, 15oz margerine, 30oz mayonnaise etc.) This is of course to boost their stock so a few rich bastards can get even richer. Want to get even? Buy someone else's products--that's what I do. The corporate giant, Unilever, has been quietly shrinking the size of all their consumer products and substituting cheaper ingredients. (1.75qt ice cream, 15oz margerine, 30oz mayonnaise etc.) This is of course to boost their stock so a few rich bastards can get even richer. Want to get even? Buy someone else’s products–that’s what I do.

]]> By: Rick http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-1752 Rick Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:51:03 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-1752 I was so angry about this corporate greed and the destruction of a once great ice cream that I created this website: BreyersSucks.com Perhaps Unilver will see that people are not satisfied with their cheap crap they're trying to sell as improvement. I was so angry about this corporate greed and the destruction of a once great ice cream that I created this website: BreyersSucks.com

Perhaps Unilver will see that people are not satisfied with their cheap crap they’re trying to sell as improvement.

]]> By: Tom Sellers http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-1715 Tom Sellers Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:15:56 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-1715 We just finished a tub of Ben and Jerry's which we discovered as a result of our disgust with the Breyer's "Double Churned" that I was so incensed with. I am amazed that the executives that made the decision to save a few bucks could not fathom how bad it tasted (did they in fact try it?). In fact we should do a science experiment on them in order to prove that the greed mentality can overpower all senses as in "common sense" and "taste". All I can say is that if they are a publicly traded stock I'm glad I don't hold it. The new product was so disgusting I actually threw it out, thinking it was a bad batch. Brand loyalty had me buying a few more before I got over the fact I was indeed in denial and I had to face the facts and find a new brand. We just finished a tub of Ben and Jerry’s which we discovered as a result of our disgust with the Breyer’s “Double Churned” that I was so incensed with. I am amazed that the executives that made the decision to save a few bucks could not fathom how bad it tasted (did they in fact try it?). In fact we should do a science experiment on them in order to prove that the greed mentality can overpower all senses as in “common sense” and “taste”. All I can say is that if they are a publicly traded stock I’m glad I don’t hold it. The new product was so disgusting I actually threw it out, thinking it was a bad batch. Brand loyalty had me buying a few more before I got over the fact I was indeed in denial and I had to face the facts and find a new brand.

]]> By: A Daily Scoop: Ice Cream Reviews » Blog Archive » Breyers French Vanilla Ice Cream Review http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-662 A Daily Scoop: Ice Cream Reviews » Blog Archive » Breyers French Vanilla Ice Cream Review Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:58:38 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-662 [...] Breyers French Vanilla is similar to Breyers Vanilla Bean in that it had vanilla bean specks and now our favorite tara gum. But, it tastes thicker, creamier, and custard-like. (And has a few more grams of fat and calories than the natural vanilla.) Not knowing what makes “French Vanilla” “French” I Googled it. Answer Bag had the answer: “What is “french vanilla”? What is different about it from regular vanilla?” [...] […] Breyers French Vanilla is similar to Breyers Vanilla Bean in that it had vanilla bean specks and now our favorite tara gum. But, it tastes thicker, creamier, and custard-like. (And has a few more grams of fat and calories than the natural vanilla.) Not knowing what makes “French Vanilla” “French” I Googled it. Answer Bag had the answer: “What is “french vanilla”? What is different about it from regular vanilla?” […]

]]> By: A Daily Scoop » Blog Archive » Breyers Natural Ice Cream and Tara Gum: Unilever’s Response http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-91 A Daily Scoop » Blog Archive » Breyers Natural Ice Cream and Tara Gum: Unilever’s Response Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:35:49 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-91 [...] Admittedly, when I first reviewed Breyers Natural Vanilla ice cream it didn’t even occur to me to look at the ingredients. A commenter informed me that the Breyers Natural Vanilla recipe was no longer as simple – tara gum had been added. Sure enough, I looked at the ingredients on the package and there it was. Since then, I have spent some time investigating this new addition to Breyers ice cream and will discuss my findings in a 4 part series. Today, in the first story of the series, I will outline the basics about tara gum and detail Breyers response to some questions I asked them. In the upcoming weeks I will post a taste test comparing Breyers All Natural Vanilla with and without tara gum, specify odd ingredients in other brands’ ice creams, and conclude with a story about the future of ice cream ingredients. [...] […] Admittedly, when I first reviewed Breyers Natural Vanilla ice cream it didn’t even occur to me to look at the ingredients. A commenter informed me that the Breyers Natural Vanilla recipe was no longer as simple – tara gum had been added. Sure enough, I looked at the ingredients on the package and there it was. Since then, I have spent some time investigating this new addition to Breyers ice cream and will discuss my findings in a 4 part series. Today, in the first story of the series, I will outline the basics about tara gum and detail Breyers response to some questions I asked them. In the upcoming weeks I will post a taste test comparing Breyers All Natural Vanilla with and without tara gum, specify odd ingredients in other brands’ ice creams, and conclude with a story about the future of ice cream ingredients. […]

]]> By: A Daily Scoop » Blog Archive » Breyers Ice Cream and Tara Gum http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-81 A Daily Scoop » Blog Archive » Breyers Ice Cream and Tara Gum Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:33:21 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-81 [...] For those of you who have been waiting for my report on the Tara Gum now found in Breyers Ice Cream, I will be posting Breyers’ response on Monday.  It will be the first in a 4 or 5 part series discussing the issue.  Following the first part, I will examine other brands’ ingredients and conduct a taste test between the Breyers Natural Vanilla with Tara Gum and the Breyers Natural Vanilla without.  (I found a carton at Whole Foods that must have been made before they began adding Tara Gum.)  So, please stop back on Monday for the beginning of what I hope to be a very engaging topic. [...] […] For those of you who have been waiting for my report on the Tara Gum now found in Breyers Ice Cream, I will be posting Breyers’ response on Monday.  It will be the first in a 4 or 5 part series discussing the issue.  Following the first part, I will examine other brands’ ingredients and conduct a taste test between the Breyers Natural Vanilla with Tara Gum and the Breyers Natural Vanilla without.  (I found a carton at Whole Foods that must have been made before they began adding Tara Gum.)  So, please stop back on Monday for the beginning of what I hope to be a very engaging topic. […]

]]> By: A Daily Scoop http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-54 A Daily Scoop Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:49:46 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-54 I have heard back from someone in Unilever's Media Office. They are working on finding the answers to my questions and told me that they will get back to me by next week. As I said before I will write a full story about this once I have all of the details. I have heard back from someone in Unilever’s Media Office. They are working on finding the answers to my questions and told me that they will get back to me by next week. As I said before I will write a full story about this once I have all of the details.

]]> By: A Daily Scoop http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-49 A Daily Scoop Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:57:14 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-49 I think it was Simon (above) who mentioned that it might prevent the ice crystals from forming in the freezer. I read the WHO report and also this report from the Food Standards Agency in Australia and New Zealand. http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/standardsdevelopment/applications/applicationa546tarag2904.cfm They approved the use of Tara Gum in foods. (I wouldn't recommend reading this report past page 18 or 19 if you are an animal lover, some of the study involves testing on rats and dogs that some may rather not think/read about.) The reports find several things that may cause concern: 1) Tara gum is not digestible by the human body's digestive system 2) in the WHO report there were some issues with dogs who were lactating and had nursing puppies. As I said before, the reports conclude that that Tara Gum is safe. It is a natural product that comes from the seeds of the tara tree (found in South America and Africa). But, if you want a truly natural product made only from milk/cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla you may want to look elsewhere. I am still trying to contact Unilever. When I called the phone line was "undergoing maintenance" and the media email address "is no longer active" (a returned email telling me to call the main number and not to email). I will continue investigating this and write a complete posting when I have more information. I think it was Simon (above) who mentioned that it might prevent the ice crystals from forming in the freezer.
I read the WHO report and also this report from the Food Standards Agency in Australia and New Zealand.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/standardsdevelopment/applications/applicationa546tarag2904.cfm
They approved the use of Tara Gum in foods. (I wouldn’t recommend reading this report past page 18 or 19 if you are an animal lover, some of the study involves testing on rats and dogs that some may rather not think/read about.)
The reports find several things that may cause concern: 1) Tara gum is not digestible by the human body’s digestive system 2) in the WHO report there were some issues with dogs who were lactating and had nursing puppies.
As I said before, the reports conclude that that Tara Gum is safe. It is a natural product that comes from the seeds of the tara tree (found in South America and Africa). But, if you want a truly natural product made only from milk/cream, sugar, eggs, and vanilla you may want to look elsewhere.
I am still trying to contact Unilever. When I called the phone line was “undergoing maintenance” and the media email address “is no longer active” (a returned email telling me to call the main number and not to email).
I will continue investigating this and write a complete posting when I have more information.

]]> By: Matt http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-48 Matt Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:38:15 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-48 I did not mean to imply that the protein prevents ice from forming on the ice cream once inside your refrigerator. It is intended to slow down the formation of ice crystals during the "double churning" process, which breaks up the fat into smaller particles and allows it to distribute more evenly throughout the ice cream, which is what results in the lower fat content. In any case, it is deception. They ruined a good, simple, product for the purpose of raising their profit margin...although they are spinning it as a more healthy ice cream, because of the lower fat. Nonsense... read this study by the WHO on Tara Gum. www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v16je23.htm It is unfortunate that I have to do so much research just to figure out if the ice cream I am eating is healthy and whether or not I am being manipulated. I just want some normal simple ice cream argh. I did not mean to imply that the protein prevents ice from forming on the ice cream once inside your refrigerator. It is intended to slow down the formation of ice crystals during the “double churning” process, which breaks up the fat into smaller particles and allows it to distribute more evenly throughout the ice cream, which is what results in the lower fat content.

In any case, it is deception. They ruined a good, simple, product for the purpose of raising their profit margin…although they are spinning it as a more healthy ice cream, because of the lower fat. Nonsense… read this study by the WHO on Tara Gum. www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/jecmono/v16je23.htm

It is unfortunate that I have to do so much research just to figure out if the ice cream I am eating is healthy and whether or not I am being manipulated. I just want some normal simple ice cream argh.

]]> By: A Daily Scoop http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-45 A Daily Scoop Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:04:05 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-45 I would like to point out that despite the additional ingredients the ice cream still gets icy. I was cleaning out my freezer last night and opened up the Breyers\' chocolate from just over a month ago and found it to be covered in ice. I tasted it and it was terrible (and rubbery tasting). I will contact Unilever and see what I can find out. I would like to point out that despite the additional ingredients the ice cream still gets icy. I was cleaning out my freezer last night and opened up the Breyers\’ chocolate from just over a month ago and found it to be covered in ice. I tasted it and it was terrible (and rubbery tasting). I will contact Unilever and see what I can find out.

]]> By: Matt http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-44 Matt Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:08:48 +0000 http://adailyscoop.com/2006/06/26/scoop-31-breyers-natural-vanilla/#comment-44 Oh one more thing I forgot to add. In addition to the guar gum, it now has "natural flavor." In this case natural flavor is a protein that they found in a North Atlantic fish that helps prevent ice from forming. Only Unilever has been able to produce this protein in large quantities by using a genetically modified strain of yeast. Oh one more thing I forgot to add. In addition to the guar gum, it now has “natural flavor.” In this case natural flavor is a protein that they found in a North Atlantic fish that helps prevent ice from forming. Only Unilever has been able to produce this protein in large quantities by using a genetically modified strain of yeast.

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