Buyer's guide to non-dairy ice cream

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Best Buys as of July/August 2006

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MotherHemp and Oat Supreme are the best buys.

Brand	Rating
MotherHemp Organic Hemp Ice [A,O]	15
Oat Supreme ice cream stick [A]	15
Oat Supreme non-dairy oat ice cream [A]	15
Sunrise carob non-dairy choc ices [A]	14
Sunrise Ice Dream non-dairy ice cream [A]	14
Swedish Glace iced non-dairy dessert [A]	14
Tofutti organic non-dairy frozen dessert [A,O]	13.5
Toffuti non-dairy ice cream [A]	12.5

The ratings on this scorecard were last updated from our database at www.ethiscore.org on 22 May 2008. The higher the rating, the more ethical the brand.

Non-dairy ice cream

Technically, soya ice cream has to be called 'iced non-dairy dessert'. Sorbets are also vegan and many of the brands on the dairy table also produce sorbets. Soya ice cream brand Swedish Glace is owned by a Swedish dairy company whilst the Tofutti brand is made by a 100% dairy free US company but it uses egg whites and seafood in some products (but not in ice cream!). MotherHemp has been taken over by a farm group which specialises in developing non food crops such as hemp or biomass. It claims to have a strict non-GM policy. Two UK companies producing the Sunrise and Oat Supreme brands get an extra mark for being totally vegan companies.

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