Alpro ice cream - soya?

[gabby57]

I saw the TV advert & thought "ooh, goody, a lower sugar alternative" to the real thing. But then, the ingredients - hulled SOYA beans.

I assume these are therefore UNfermented, and so a no-no for those of us with Hashi's? :0/

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

All numbers below refer to "per 100 grams":

Water, Soluble gluco fibre, Sugar, Hulled SOYA beans (6.1%), Vegetable fats (Rapeseed, Shea), Fructose-glucose syrup, Emulsifier (Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids), Vanilla extract (0.4%), Stabilisers (Locust bean gum, Guar gum), Sea salt, Vanilla seeds

sugars 13.5 g

energy 690 kJ / 166 kcal

alpro.com/uk/products/ice-c...

A more-or-less randomly selected vanilla ice cream that does not make great claims other than "THE VERY BEST OF WAITROSE".

Milk, whipping cream (milk) (34%), demerara sugar, skimmed milk powder, pasteurised free range egg, sugar, Madagascan vanilla extract, Madagascan vanilla powder

Sugars 12.8 g

Energy 1009kj 242kcal

waitrose.com/ecom/products/...

I don't know if it is the case here, but all too many claims about sugar content refer to sucrose (ordinary cane or beet sugar) and ignore Fructose-glucose syrup.

[gabby57 in reply to helvella]

Well, they claim "30% less sugars", so maybe they mean fewer sugars & there are 10 different types of sugar in ice cream & only 7 in Alpro? Because from your figures, there's certainly not 30% less sugar.

Sorry, the grammar police seem to be in again today.

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to gabby57]

Or maybe they are being devious and only including sucrose.

[Angel_of_the_North]

Artificial sweeteners are probably worse for you than the real thing and your blood sugar/insulin have been shown to react to them in the same way as real sugar. Only possible exception is stevia. Why not make your own ice cream? That looks as though it contains a ton of sugar.