Conventional ice-cream options can be laden with added sugar, fat, and other preservatives. Plus, if you are lactose-intolerant or vegan, your options are further limited.
But with more vegan and dairy-free ice cream brands sprouting up on the island, getting plant-based frozen sweet treats has been made a tad easier. These are usually made with plant-based milks like almond, coconut, and even brown rice. We give you the inside scoop on where to go now.
This Malaysian brand, which has a store on our shores, is proof that going vegan, dairy-free or gluten-free can be as fun and delicious as its conventional counterparts.
Savour tasty flavours like Peanut Butter Cup, Matcha Coconut, Pandan Gula Melaka, and Almond Brittle Fudge, all without refined sugar, soy, and other artificial flavourings or preservatives. Its options are also mostly gluten-free options.
You get two options for its waffle cones: wheat flour or almond flour for the gluten-intolerant.
Kind Kones is at #B1-27, Forum The Shopping Mall, 583 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238884. Also available for delivery.
We associate beloved ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s with has a vegan line, too and it’s most recently added Non-Dairy Netflix & Chilll’d (along with its dairy counterpart). Both feature peanut butter ice cream with sweet and salty pretzel swirls, and fudge brownies.
Other vegan flavours you can dig into: Chocolate Caramel Cluster, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, and Chocolate Fudge Brownie.
Originally Brownice, this vegan ice cream brand has been rebranded as Smoocht. Here, you’ll find traditional gelato (or what they call r’ice creams) made with organic brown rice milk and organic evaporated cane sugar, fruits as well as pure nut butters.
Dive into flavours like Tropical Coconut, Kyoto-Uji Matcha, and Pure Hazelnut.
Smoocht’s ice creams are available at its cafe, Wellsmoocht, as well as via Grabfood.
Get both your ice cream and protein fix at once with Woah!’s sweet offerings. Not just gluten-free and vegetarian, the brand’s ice creams are also loaded with calcium, iron, and L-Leucine, an amino acid that stimulates protein synthesis and supports the building of muscle mass.
It bills itself the maker of Singapore’s first protein ice cream, and serves up flavours like Chocolate and Salted Caramel.
Located at Marina One, 5 Straits View #B2-17, and #B1-19 Raffles Place MRT Xchange, 5 Raffles Place. Also available at selected NTUC FairPrice supermarkets, selected Eccellente by Hao Mart, RedMan at Bedok Heartbeat and eMarketplaces. Visit its website for more information.
As its name suggests, this company is best known for its ice cream cookie sandwiches, with toothsome flavours like Toasted Marshmallow, Chocolate Fudge, Matcha Mochi and Earl Grey.
But if you’re after vegan and dairy-free options, go for its Vegan Dark Chocolate, Avocado Smoothie, Onde Onde, Chendol, Tropical Coconut, Acai Berry Sorbet and Mango Sorbet.
Yes, this childhood classic has vegan options too. It offers non-dairy versions of its Classic and Almond flavours, as well as the newest flavour, Dairy-Free Sea Salt Caramel ($11.90 for three), all made using dairy-free chocolate, a unique pea protein and coconut oil,
Magnum’s vegan ice cream is available at FairPrice Finest, Cold Storage, and online via RedMart , Everyday Vegan Grocer and EatRoamLive .
Shirollina was founded by Shira Biton, who was diagnosed with a chronic condition, which was made worse with certain food items. That culminated in her researching about and creating her own healthy vegan frozen desserts – and which cut out dairy, gluten, and sugar.
It promises that all its confections are gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, vegan, diabetic-friendly and made with premium, organic as well as all-natural ingredients. Its offerings include Chocolate Seasonal Surprise, Cream & Dream, and the Seasonal Fruit Cheesecake that marries a zesty base covered with a handmade fruit compote and cheesecake-style gluten-free crumble.
This article was first published in Women’s Weekly.