Consumption of regular dairy ice cream, which does not include frozen yogurt, sherbet or non- and low-fat ice creams, has been falling for years, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
Dam, I eat probably 50-60lb per year, trying to do my part.
We fell out of love with paying for air.
If I had fuck you money, and Ben and Jerry didn’t insist on making their tasty shit like 1500 calories a pint, I’d totally keep them in business single handedly.
1500 calories a pint is probably the reason why it tastes so good.
Not arguing that at all but I don’t eat too many more calories for the whole entire day so it’s pretty tough to have in day to day life for me.
I just make it a once a month thing to mitigate the damage
True.
While I have no basis for this
I think the reason Ice Cream fell out of favor is because it’s a “Normal sugary sweet”.
It’s easy to eliminate.
Meanwhile, sugar has increased in just about everything else we eat.
Meanwhile, sugar has increased in just about everything else we eat.
I think you mean FAKE sugar. Holy hell is it everywhere. And it’s so damn sweet.
I actually enjoy having a sodastream just so I can still buy the occasional energy drink or soda, and add some extra carbonated water to tone down the sweetness.
You know how much I’d love to see a coca-cola with “low cane sugar” as an option? Just give me cane sugar… but less of it!!
I really wish instead of switching from real sugar to artificial sweetener, companies would simply use less sugar. But no, artificial sweetener is CHEAPER than real sugar, and makes the item taste sweeter, so it’s a win-win, right?
It’s not fake sugar lol, it exists.
It’s added sugar
Go to a supermarket, look around at how many candies and sodas now use artificial sweetener instead of plain sugar. It’s certainly on the increase over the past 20 years if you look back historically at it’s usage, and it seems to be increasing annually.
Look at how Pepsi phased out Sierra Mist in favor of the new “Starry” soda which is made with more artificial sweetener. This lets them advertise lower calories on the label, while selling a sweeter beverage people will buy.
I used to love buying malted beverages and energy drinks occasionally because I enjoy trying new flavors. However over the past five+ years, I’ve noticed a lot more brands sneaking in artificial sweeteners. Look at Mountain Dew - they recently started a line of alcohol-infused beverages which interested me. But go figure they were absolutely terrible - they tasted nothing like classic mountain dew with al that fake sugar. I threw them out lol.
Ah I misunderstood, yeah there’s artificial sweeteners and alternate sugars, I don’t believe they’re all inherently bad from what I’ve seen.
And yeah some people really taste the difference lol
Who weighs their ice cream? I’m surprised this measured by weight and not something like pints or calories.
Anyways, I wonder if this has to do with the rising trend of plant based diets. I still eat ice cream occasionally but the vegan ice cream I get wouldn’t be counted as ice cream in this data (understandably so)
Pretty much anything measured in large quantities is by weight. It’s the most accurate and consistent method.
I’ve been buying a lot of this one brand of Frozen Yogurt lately. They make a bunch of different items (Sandwiches, bars, etc.) Honestly to me tastes about as good as any ice cream, but way less calories… Might be a little less sweet, but I’m ok with that tradeoff!
I used to like ice cream, but diabetes put a screeching halt to that. I’ve tried the healthier alternatives, but they’re horrible. Keto ice cream is just the worst.
Actually, one bizarre research finding is that, “among diabetics, eating half a cup of ice cream a day is associated with a lower risk of heart problems”.
No one’s quite sure why or how or whether it’s some sort of odd correlation (but it does seem to resist all attempts to p-hack it out of significance), and there’s not much appetite among researchers to look too closely into it because everyone knows that ice cream is bad for you.
When you break it down all ice cream is is frozen milk. Things like heavy cream help stabilize it. Sugar/chocolate/vanilla is most commonly added to make it taste more interesting.
If you’re a diabetic you could cut out the sugar and add alternatives. Make your own ice cream it’s super easy.
In 1986, the average American ate 18 pounds of regular ice cream, according to the USDA. By 2021, the most recent year of the data, that was down a third to just 12 pounds per person.
12 pounds per person still feels like a lot.
I agree. I don’t eat anywhere near that so one of you must have increased your consumption by a third to pretty close to 24 pounds.
I also think it’s weird that they are measuring in mass when it is almost always sold by volume.
Per what time period? Life time?
Per year if I’m reading the article correctly.
Recently, I was at the grocery store and the family in front of me at at a minimum of 9 tubs of ice cream. (2L ones). Turns out they are from Connecticut visiting Canada. According to the check out lady, people from the states load up on our local ice cream and cheeses. It seems to be quite common.
The brand of ice cream that they got has a factory + store front about 10 minutes away from me. We drive past it all the time, it’s been extremely busy with these hot temps. With lines going out the door and into the parking lot just to have an ice cream cone.
Sure, it’s anecdotal, but there’s still plenty of people in love with ice cream.
I stopped eating most dairy (except cheese — love that shit) cause milkshakes, ice cream, etc started making me get congested.
No other symptoms, just congestion, and never with cheese. Oh well. At least I still have my cheese.
I’ve never heard of anything like that. Did you go see a Dr?
Nah, I’ll mention it next time I go though. It doesn’t really bother me, I like ice cream but not enough to foot the doctor’s bill just for that.
Probably because of shrinkflation and because they’re taking all the good stuff out of it. Seems like most of it is no longer ice cream but “frozen dairy dessert”.
Good stuff? Ice cream is just sugar, milk, and heavy cream.
I stopped buying store ice cream because I just make my own instead. Cheaper and I can curb it to my liking.
Yes so why is there so many ingredients in store bought?
Flavourings, preservatives, etc.
I feel like you could take this story and change “ice cream” to anything and for me 90% of the time its true. Quality has been sacrificed for profit.
I noticed that for the first time a few years ago, when I had Breyers frozen dessert sitting in the sink for two hours.
Initially, I put it there thinking that it would just melt away like ice cream normally does. Nope.
I get the whole health conscious thing, but part of the blame shouldn’t be aimed at consumers. Hitting all the major brands with the grocery shrink-ray from 1/2 Gal to 1.x Qts and raising the price didn’t do them any favors. Same with the newer formulations that barely let them be called true ice cream anymore.
Wow big day in the news
I stopped buying ice cream when people started licking them in the grocery store
