Buyer's guide to non-dairy ice cream

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Best Buys

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Booja Booja is the best followed by MotherHemp and Oat Supreme.

Brand	Rating
Booja Booja non-dairy ice cream [A,O]	16
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 higher the rating the more ethical the brand. This whole scorecard was last updated from our database on 14 October 2009 but some individual company ratings may have changed since then. Up to the minute information can be seen by subscribers using Ethiscore.
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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 whilst all of Booja Booja's products are vegan and organic.

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