5 Ice Cream Chains That Only Use Premium Ingredients

According to the company website, Big Gay Ice Cream is best renowned for its amazing soft-serve, which is created with all-natural milk, cream, sugar, and "a small bit of invisible emulsifier.

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If extra decadence is what you're after, try one of Big Gay's packed pints created from egg-based recipes. These are denser, more indulgent, and have a lot more butterfat than the soft-serve.

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Ben Van Leeuwen and his co-founders set out to make the best ice cream when they launched their ice cream company in 2008. They may have even just been successful.

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Van Leeuwen continues to be best recognized for its premium ingredients, while other flavours of ice cream at countrywide scoop shops and on supermarket shelves stand out thanks to their packaging and marketing initiatives.

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Award-winning ice cream maker and entrepreneur Jeni Britton Bauer uses a formula that she has spent 20 years refining to create Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams.

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The ice creams, which have been praised for their "smooth texture and buttercream body," are created from scratch with the finest ingredients, such as milk from family-owned farms, vegetables and fruits that are fresh, Fair and Direct Trade chocolate, vanilla, and coffee.

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Due to its unconventional flavours and capacity to bring people together at its scoop shops, Salt & Straw ice cream has developed a cult following. Kim and Tyler Malek, cousins, founded the brand in 2011. It offers small-batch, seasonal flavours of ice cream produced using local cream and seasonal ingredients, including veggies.

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Even though the names of some of their currently offered flavours Spinach Cake with Chocolate Tahini Fudge, Green Fennel & Maple, and Sea Salt with Caramel Ribbons are enough to make you salivate, the ingredients inside these sweets have an even greater impact.

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McConnell's is a small chain that dominates the luxury ice cream market. As a dairy and ice cream firm, it has the ability to make its own ice cream base, which is something that most other manufacturers cannot. The brand takes pride in having complete control over that procedure.

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Three basic ingredients: milk and cream, eggs, and pure cane sugar make up that base. Stabilisers, fillers, and preservatives are absent, giving the brand the distinction of producing the cleanest ice cream in the industry.

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