My local grocery store has started stocking a “limited edition” apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don’t want to be shilling). It’s one of my favorites – not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.
I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn’t make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it’s perfectly possible. So why isn’t it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?
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Why isn’t orange (the fruit) ice cream more popular? I don’t mean sherbet, I mean ice cream. It can be bought in Florida, but I’ve never heard of it anywhere else.
I’ve wondered about the same but with kiwi fruit it’s delicious and refreshing yet you don’t see any flavored drinks or ice cream with that flavor.
I suspect it’s related to the difficulty in processing. Kiwi fruit are quite small and non-trivial to extract the flesh from. This would make it more expensive to extract.
This is less of an issue now that a few decades back. However, most people are quite conservative on their juice choices. Low sales still mean higher cost, which reduces sales.
Kiwi and pineapples have enzyme to break proteins down, causing it taste better if they have contact to diary products long enough. Canned pineapples don’t have this issue but I haven’t seen canned kiwi, maybe that explains no kiwi ice cream
Maybe. I have seen pineapple flavored drinks though
In the US we have a lot of strawberry kiwi flavored drinks. Rarely just kiwi by itself though.
I’d drink it. Still just kiwi would be great imho
Applesauce ice cream sounds foul.
damn good question
There is such a variety of apples it’s hard to pick one apple flavor.
Is it the one I saw at ALDI? (or possibly the same supplier)
It was pretty freaking good ngl
Idk but grape icrecream is illegal
I’m not really into sweets, but one day i saw a bar of chocolate with grapes on it, and i was like: chocolate with pockets full of grapes? Ymmi. At home i unpacked it and stuffed it in my mouth.
I almost threw up because it wasn’t grapes, it was grappa. Of course we can’t have nice things, we have to waste grapes on rotten ugly juice.
Chocolate with raisins is super common though…
As it should be
Why?!
Apples turn brown when you freeze them.
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While that is the case, modern industrial ice cream rarely contains the actual fruit. Just take standard Neutro mix, regenerate it with water, not milk, and add some food coloring (a light green), an acidic component like citric acid, and “natural” “apple” flavor.
Making ice cream with actual apples involved is a nightmare due to acidity influencing other ingredients. But making it apple-scented is trivial.
But you raised a very good question…
I feel like dehydrated apples might work.
Because it’s too expensive to crunch up a whole iPhone just for one cone.
This should be higher. Even broken iPhones from 3 years ago sell for tens or hundreds of euros.
you’d end up with apple cider vinegar as your flavorant, and that doesn’t play well with milk.
What, you don’t like cold soured apple curd tart cream? It has nutmeg in it!
Most apple flavored stuff sucks, except for apples.
Apple brandy would like a word. One of my favorite liquors, it’s fantastic.
Apple brandy counts as a serving of fruit, not apple flavored.
Are we talking Apple or apple pie? Because from your post I can’t really tell.
What flavour is apple pie?
Apple + cinnamon
And brown sugar.
Gotta get those cinnamons-syrup-swirls, amirite?
And cheddar, ya philistines.
+ butter
So pie. And baked apple doesn’t taste like raw apple.
This particular one is apple pie, but the ice cream itself (minus the pie crust chunks) would be great on its own.
I’ve recently had a similar discussion on why orange ice cream isn’t that popular, but exists in form of water ice
Our conclusion was that acidic flavors, like orange and apple just aren’t good combined with cream, instead being better served as a sorbet
Ok. Why is apple or grape sorbet uncommon?
Orange creamcicle flavored ice cream is pretty easy to find. But I think it’s usually vanilla ice cream with layers of orange sherbet. Strawberries are acidic and strawberry ice cream is a popular flavor.
In my experience, apples just don’t taste very good when frozen. Maybe that’s why they don’t sell frozen apples at most supermarkets?
What about orange creamsicles?
That sort of goes along with his point. The orange part is separate from the cream part.
I make ice cream as a hobby and found orange ice cream is too rich to eat even a scoop in one sitting. It’s completely possible but it’s hard to eat.
I had this delightful tangerine sorbet. a golfball scoop is all we needed
Yup. Sorbet is often made with orange or lemon flavours.
Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.
Even better, bananas foster flavor
