ICE CREAM Can Be HEALTHY?!
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m going to tell you about the healthiest ice cream and the worst ice cream!
The worst ice cream for your health is Ben & Jerry’s! It contains cream, liquid sugar, skim milk, more sugar, brown sugar, soybean oil, and tapioca flour. There are 49 carbs per serving, with 3 servings in a single pint! That’s around 35 teaspoons of sugar!
Breyers ice cream contains 21 grams of carbs and 18 grams of sugar per serving. Breyers uses high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar.
Breyers vanilla ice cream is a step up from the other flavors. It contains milk, cream, sugar, xanthan gum, and natural flavors.
Breyers Carb Smart ice cream is their low-carb ice cream option. It contains maltitol syrup, which can cause gastrointestinal problems. It also contains soluble corn fiber and sucralose, a chlorine-based sweetener.
Haagen-Dazs is a better option. It contains cream, skim milk, egg yolk, cane sugar, and natural flavoring with 14 teaspoons of sugar compared to 35.
Keto ice cream contains cream, water, egg yolk, erythritol, strawberries, and soluble corn fiber. One pint contains 30 grams of sugar alcohol, which can create digestive issues.
Rebel ice cream contains 0 grams of sugar per pint. It contains cream, erythritol, egg yolk, chicory root fiber, milk protein isolate, carob gum, and monk fruit. This is a good option!
Simple Truth frozen dairy dessert doesn't contain 10% milkfat, so it cannot be called ice cream. It contains inulin, allulose, maltitol, erythritol, milk protein concentrate, coconut oil, guar gum, monk fruit, and stevia. Around 30% of this dessert is fiber, and it contains 39 grams of sugar alcohol!
Don't choose an ice cream just because it says it’s keto-friendly. Check the ingredients!
The healthiest ice cream is homemade ice cream. To make a truly keto-friendly ice cream you'll use allulose as the sweetener. Honey is also a good option, but it won’t be 100% keto-friendly.
Homemade ice cream recipe:
1 cup organic grass-fed heavy cream
2 pasture-raised, organic egg yolks
3 tbsp powdered allulose or 1 tbsp honey
1 pinch of sea salt
1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
½ cup pecans or walnuts (optional)
Directions:
Blend the ingredients and freeze for 4 to 5 hours.
Alternatively, you can add all ingredients to an ice cream maker and follow the manufacturer's instructions. Enjoy your healthy ice cream!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'd like to discuss the absolute worst ice cream you can eat and the best ice cream that you can eat. |
| 0:07.0 | And yes, there are certain ice creams that are healthy and I'm going to share a great recipe with you at the end of this video. |
| 0:12.9 | I think I would be an expert in ice cream since I used to eat a lot of ice cream. |
| 0:17.4 | I remember for one year I ate one pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream every single night to be able to sleep because I had insomnia really bad and I notice when I consume Ben and Jerry's it put me to sleep. |
| 0:31.6 | Little did I know that was called a sugar coma. |
| 0:34.5 | So let's start out with the worst taste scenario |
| 0:36.3 | type ice cream, Ben and Jerry's. |
| 0:38.8 | So if you look at the ingredients for Ben and Jerry's, |
| 0:41.2 | it has cream, it has liquid sugar, skim milk, more sugar, brown sugar, |
| 0:47.0 | soybean oil, and of course don't forget the tapioc of flour, which by the way they use for a filler and it's not even sweet. |
| 0:54.8 | Now what's interesting about Benning Jerry's ice cream is that preserving size, there's |
| 0:59.5 | 49 grams of carbohydrate. |
| 1:03.0 | So 49 times 3 equals 147 grams of |
| 1:07.8 | carbohydrate and so some of that starch turns into sugar. |
| 1:10.8 | So what we're really dealing with is about 35 and a fourth |
| 1:14.1 | teaspoons of sugar in the Ben and Jerry's pint of ice cream. So take a look |
| 1:19.3 | at how much sugar that's in there. All right, let's come up the list to briars. One serving size is |
| 1:24.9 | 21 grams of carbs, 18 grams of sugar, but there's four serving sizes. So if you |
| 1:31.0 | multiply 21 times 4 we get 84 grams of |
| 1:35.8 | carbohydrate but with this product we're not just dealing with regular sugar |
| 1:40.0 | we're dealing with high fructose corn syrup. |
| 1:43.5 | This is actually way worse than cane sugar. |
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