We pitted Ben & Jerry's new 'light' ice cream against the trendy company that is trying to compete with it - here's the verdict
Ben & Jerry's only makes three flavors of low-calorie ice cream. We tried the P.B. Dough flavor and compared it to Halo Top's non-dairy Peanut Butter Cup, its most similar flavor.
The premise of both ice creams is similar: all the flavor of ice cream, with half as many calories.
We tried Ben & Jerry's P.B. Dough first.
It had 160 calories per serving, or 640 for the whole pint. It had 5 grams of fat, 16 grams of sugar, and four grams of protein.
The flavor was really rich, so it was hard to eat a lot of it. The mix-ins, in this case peanut butter cookie dough bites, were delicious.
The flavor and texture were almost identical to the regular chocolate Ben & Jerry's ice cream. It was hard to taste the difference.
Next up was Halo Top. We tried the non-dairy peanut butter cup flavor, which is the most similar one we could find to P.B. Dough.
Halo Top's ice cream only had 80 calories per serving, and 320 for the whole pint — about half as many calories as the Ben & Jerry's flavor. It had four grams of fat, four grams of sugar, and four grams of protein.
The flavor was very almond-y, even though it was a peanut butter flavor made with coconut milk, not almond milk. It was very nutty, but the peanut butter flavor didn't come through as much.
It was much lighter and more refreshing than the Ben & Jerry's ice cream. It wasn't as rich or filling, and it definitely would have been easier to eat the whole pint because of that.
Both ice creams had a similar taste and texture to regular ice cream.
But Ben & Jerry's had a much richer, better flavor and more mix-ins. It was the better low-calorie ice cream by far.
Popular Right Now
Advertisement