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We are not, in fact, currently screaming for ice cream.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Beneshore, in for David Brunkachio.

The Consumer Goods Giant Unilever announced this week that it is going to spin off its ice cream business

that includes names like Ben and Jerry's Popsicle, Klondike.

The Ice Cream Business, it turns out, is pretty chilly these days.

Marketplace is Stephanie Hughes has more on why that is and how the industry plans to defrost demand.

We do eat a lot of ice cream in the US, about 12 pounds per person annually, according to the

USDA.

But we used to eat more, about 16 pounds per person in the year 2000.

Bob Roberts leads the Food Science Department at Penn State.

He says people's preferences are evolving.

They're constantly screaming for indulgent and yet constantly

screaming for healthy and healthful. Roberts, who's also done some consulting for

Unilever, says there's a hunger for more dairy-free options, which means I

scream, you scream for non-standardized plant-based frozen desserts.

And that's a space where I don't think anybody's hit a home run yet.

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