The Real Reason Ben & Jerry’s Tastes So Good (2024)

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The Real Reason Ben & Jerry’s Tastes So Good? ›

Premium ice cream like Ben and Jerry's includes up to 15 percent butterfat and less than 50 percent overrun. Ice cream that is made in high-end restaurants is what most consider super-premium, and it includes even more butterfat and even less air.

If you're a fan of Ben & Jerry's, you like ice cream with low overrun. A low overrun means less air content and more room for butterfat (the fat from milk and dairy products), leaving you with richer, denser ice cream.

Ben & Jerry's is known for their original flavors, many of which incorporate foods and desserts mixed with ice cream. Some of these flavors have been themed after musicians, comedians, and public figures, such as Jerry Garcia, Stephen Colbert, Colin Kaepernick and Phish.

So a ton of fudge, peanut butter, and pretzels mixed into malt ice cream—it's pretty clear how this ice cream accumulates so much saturated fat, carbs, and sugar, yes? There's a reason it's one of their most popular pints. And finally, the most unhealthy ice cream pint of them all is Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup.

The report revealed that American corporations and their suppliers use underage migrant laborers for dangerous and grueling factory jobs, including in dairy facilities that supply Ben & Jerry's.

A big reason why ice cream tastes so good is because of its high fat content. Unless it is labeled as light, low-fat or non-fat, ice cream must contain at least 10% fat, and this fat must come from milk. (You cannot use lard when making ice cream!) Before milk is hom*ogenized, a thick layer of cream rises to the top.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough / Cookie Dough is by far the world's most favourite Ben & Jerry's flavour. If you're in Europe, it's just called Cookie Dough, but in the Americas, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, it goes by Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

Mittal wanted the company to stand up for the human rights of Palestinians. So on July 19, 2021, the board at Ben & Jerry's announced that the company would be ending sales of its ice cream in Israel's occupied territories.

We advocate for progressive social change that is rooted in our company's mission and values. From marriage equality and LGBTQ rights, to climate justice and GMO labeling, we stand up for the issues we believe in, and we have never shied away from controversy. But we are staunchly non-partisan.

Why boycott Ben and Jerry's? ›

In 2021, before the current flare-up in violence, Ben & Jerry's had already provoked one row when it spoke up about the treatment of Palestinians. It said it no longer wanted its ice cream to be sold in parts of Palestine illegally occupied by Israelis including the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Ben & Jerry's produces a wide variety of super-premium ice cream and ice cream novelties, using high-quality ingredients including milk and cream from family farmers who do not treat their cows with the synthetic hormone rBGH.

"It's principally around the costs of labour, logistics and energy and what our suppliers see in their own production bases," finance chief Graeme Pitkethly said.

Blame Ben For Our Chunk Obsession

Co-founder Ben Cohen has no sense of smell and very little sense of taste. So when he was developing our earliest ice cream flavors, he loved the texture of the big chunks. Fans loved it too, and it's since become our signature style.

In the ice cream world, the amount of air whipped into the final product is called overrun. Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice creams weigh more than 100 grams per half cup (120 grams), so they contain roughly 20% air.