Breyer's changed their ice cream formula

[ticktock]

OK I know this won't bother most people here but I'm really upset about this. My son and I have allergies to, among other things, gluten and soy. Breyers mint chocolate chip was about the only way we can eat chocolate because almost all companies now use soy lecithin as an emulsifier in their chocolate because it is CHEAP, not because it is better than the traditional methods.

Now they have changed their formula too! Just so they can save a few cents on a package of ice cream that I pay $6.00 for!!! Now, yes, I know I can get allergy free chocolate chips. but they don't taste the same because they are made to be allergy free for everyone. This means no diary etc... It's OK, it'll do in a pinch, but it's not the same.

And now I have to tell my son there is some thing ELSE he can't have. No cookies because of gluten (can't argue with that, cookies were always made with flour) , no you can't have the gluten free cookies either because they're made with soy lecthin . This isn't neccesary, it's just cheap. Twenty years ago no products were made with soy lecithin. Yeah, progress.

Oh, and to all you out there who think soy is so healthy. Did you know that tobacco farmers rotate their tobaco crops with soy to set the nitrogen in the soil? AND that the goverment subsidizes this? So when you buy soy products your not supporting some hippie in Oregon. Your putting money in evil big tobacco's pocket, that's already being subsidized by big goverment.

I love to tell this to all the hippies at the health food store where I have to buy most of our allergy free food. This really kills them . It just goes to show that today everything is about packaging and perception. There is no truth in advertising, "all natural" breyers ice cream my a$$.

 

[KristaTX]

I'm sorry . I also enjoy Breyer's ice cream. Not because it is a health issue for me, but because their regular non-diet chocolate and vanilla bean ice creams are made with only a few basic ingredients (milk, cream, sugar, cocoa, vanilla). It doesn't have a bunch of artificial sounding ingredients, and doesn't even have eggs in it. It just seems more healthy or something. And it makes great shakes.

However - I only pay between $2.99 and $3.99 for it here! If you have SuperTarget where you live, look for it there. Maybe you can at least still eat their other flavors, since the chocolate chips are now out for you.

You do mean they have changed the ingredients in the chocolate chip part of the ice cream, right?? Not the actual ice cream recipe??

 

[ticktock]

KristaTX I am sorry to say they changed the ice cream recipe in the mint choc. chip at least. I don't know about the vanilla and chocolate. I looked at my dh neapolitan and it had carrageenan, corn syrup and a bunch of other junk I can't remember in it. Legally "all natural" I'm sure, but not really following the spirit of the "nothing but cream sugar and strawberries" intention of the original product, you know? It's so sad that profit is more important than integrity.

 

[ndelaware]

Did you notice that even though they charge you $6 for the package of ice cream, that it is no longer a half gallon. They started doing this about 3 years ago and never lowered the price. We no longer buy Breyers now and it used to be the only brand we bought.

 

[twinklebug]

I just bought Bryer's Light version of the Mint CC yesterday so having formerly worked as a chocolatier I RAN to see the ingredients... OK, who an I kidding? Your post made me crave mint cc icecream

anywho...

Yes, to my dismay, Breyer's ingredients (on this box) look like a MESS and Soy lecithin is on there.

I suggest you write, no, CALL Bryers and ask to speak with someone who can help you with your issues with the ingredients change and allergies. Don't take "Oh, I'm so sorry" as an answer from a service rep. Demand a reply. You may get through to a person who knows what they're talking about and they'll tell you what's going on. You may even be able to make them take notice that people care what they do as small as it may be and they could change back. Mind there's a good chance that Soy lecithin has always been a part of the ingredients, but was there in such minute quantities that the FDA didn't require it being labled. I can tell you from experience that a giant bowl of tempering chocolate only needs a single DROP of lecithin to bring the consistancy back to a workable medium.

 

[jfulcer]

Oh, and to all you out there who think soy is so healthy. Did you know that tobacco farmers rotate their tobaco crops with soy to set the nitrogen in the soil? AND that the goverment subsidizes this? So when you buy soy products your not supporting some hippie in Oregon. Your putting money in evil big tobacco's pocket, that's already being subsidized by big goverment.

Well, let's see. Your logic is just a little flawed. 'Big government' subsidizes soy, not tobacco. Do you know WHY the government subsidizes soy? It's hard to find, but it's out there.

Irregardless of the subsidies, farmers almost always rotate their crops, for this exact reason - the different crops help the farmer keep the soil productive. If the farmer only grew soy in a field, eventually the soy he gets will not be as robust/healthy/etc because the soy uses up the nutrients it needs. So what that they alternate between tobacco/soy. It doesn't make soy bad.

 

[KristaTX]

Well that stinks. I'll have to check out the chocolate and vanilla bean next time I'm in the store. Guess I better stock up if I find some that is not made with the new recipe.

And I have noticed that it is now less than a 1/2 gallon. I've still been willing to buy it for the same price as other brands around here since I like it so much, but if they changed the recipe, I'm probably going to be buying Blue Bell or Braum's from now on.

I can't believe it is so expensive where y'all live . It's hard for me to buy it if it goes over $3.50 or so since it is less than a half gallon.

 

[ticktock]

jfulcer I know about crop rotation, as I think I mentioned in my first post. Also, when tobaco farmers first started useing soy to fix nitrogen they didn't harvest the soy, they plowed it in as a "green manure" , I think some did feed it to animals not sure about that. So they weren't using it as food for humans.


If you know anything about tobaco production, you know some of the most toxic chemicals allowed to be used in the US are used on tobaco, so anything grown on the land used to produce tobaco is going to have traces of those chemicals. I know all this for a fact because my dh has two aunts who became millionares by working for RJ Reynolds, they both died young of cancers as did their husbands who worked for the same company. Not lung cancer, and this doesn't run in their families. Make of that what you will. My dh's very southern family all smoke, but won't eat food grown on tobaccy land . So that does make soy produced on tobaco land "bad". At least in the eyes of the people who live around it and should know.

And if you have some secret hard to find knowledge about subsidies, why don't you share instead of being soo mysterious? In all my readings on farm susidies all I've ever found is politicians helping each other out using the little man farmer as an excuse, and then putting him out of business. Like peanut farming. Worked for the Carter family.

 

[shortbun]

jfulcer I know about crop rotation, as I think I mentioned in my first post. Also, when tobaco farmers first started useing soy to fix nitrogen they didn't harvest the soy, they plowed it in as a "green manure" , I think some did feed it to animals not sure about that. So they weren't using it as food for humans.


If you know anything about tobaco production, you know some of the most toxic chemicals allowed to be used in the US are used on tobaco, so anything grown on the land used to produce tobaco is going to have traces of those chemicals. I know all this for a fact because my dh has two aunts who became millionares by working for RJ Reynolds, they both died young of cancers as did their husbands who worked for the same company. Not lung cancer, and this doesn't run in their families. Make of that what you will. My dh's very southern family all smoke, but won't eat food grown on tobaccy land . So that does make soy produced on tobaco land "bad". At least in the eyes of the people who live around it and should know.

And if you have some secret hard to find knowledge about subsidies, why don't you share instead of being soo mysterious? In all my readings on farm susidies all I've ever found is politicians helping each other out using the little man farmer as an excuse, and then putting him out of business. Like peanut farming. Worked for the Carter family.

Thank goodness we buy our edamame "organic!"
The only farm in our family is small, has gotten subsidies since I was a child(I'm 52) and no one is in politics or rich; believe me. I DO believe the cancer thing as all the farming deaths seem to be from virulent strains of cancer. I've been buying "organic" for many years for that reason. I realize there is no way to completely filter out the toxins but I do the best I can: No bleach, no cleaning chemicals, no lawn or garden chemicals, organic foods, beef free of antibiotics-hormones and steroids. I've kept my son's childhood as free of food dye as possible(they gravitate towards blue food ) and processed foods and white flour. What's this thread about anyway?
Oh yeah, I'm ticked that Breyers changed their recipe. I'll join the letter writing campaign. $6? NEvah! TG 4 BOGO!!!!

 

[ADisneygirl]

OK, I had to run and look at my Breyer's container after reading this thread this morning! When did they stop making it a real half gallon??? I never knew this. My vanilla fudge lists milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup, cocoa, natural flavor, and salt as the ingredients.

And here at Publix it is $5.99. If it is on sale, you can get it for as low as $3.00, but it isn't on sale a lot. Maybe I should look at the super Wal-Mart and see how much it is there.

 

[kristen821]

Icecream is between 5.99-6.99 a gallon here too. I never realized people paid less then that. I will have to shop around.
It is a good thing you noticed they changed the recipe. I probably would have just assumed that it was the same.

 

[LadyyRedd]

Breyers is about $4 here, but every few weeks, one of the store chains has it on sale for $1.88, so that's when I get it.

Kimya