{"id":1355,"date":"2013-07-15T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T01:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2024-07-16T00:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:19:17","slug":"not-really-ice-cream-reviews-gelateria-italiana-vs-tempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2013\/07\/not-really-ice-cream-reviews-gelateria-italiana-vs-tempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Not really ice cream reviews: Gelateria Italiana vs. Tempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Note: These companies have closed)<\/p>\n\n\n

First of all, let me start by saying that I feel like a complete jerk for blogging about ice cream after reading this article<\/a> about the torturous conditions in which California inmates find themselves, and hearing from a friend of mine who is a prison lawyer, that water<\/em> was being rationed in California women’s prisons during the heat wave we had last week.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, not blogging about ice cream won’t change any of that, so here it goes.\u00a0 These are two new, for me, brands of ice-cream-like products that I found at Grocery Outlet, here in San Leandro.<\/p>\n

Gelateria Italiana<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I tried both their Hazelnut & Chocolate<\/strong> and Pistachio<\/strong> flavors.\u00a0 The Hazelnut & chocolate one was divine.\u00a0 It tasted exactly like you would expect it to taste, but it was lighter that your regular gelato.\u00a0 The Pistachio was pretty good as well, but less exciting because, after all, pistachio ice cream gets boring after a whole.<\/p>\n

The ice cream comes all the way from Italy and I would fully recommend it but for its ingredients.\u00a0 The first two ingredients are what you’d expect: milk and sugar (I guess no cream in gelato), but we then encounter “glucose syrup”<\/a> – which is basically like corn syrup, but not necessarily from corn – and then “refined vegetable oil”.\u00a0 Say what?\u00a0 What is oil doing in my ice cream? I’ve made ice cream many times and gelato a few, but never, never have I heard of using oil.\u00a0 I might have thought the oil was for cooking the hazelnuts, but it comes before “roasted hazelnut paste” as an ingredient, which means there is more of it than hazelnuts.<\/p>\n

The gelato came in a 30 oz tub (so not quite a quart) and cost about $3 at GO.<\/p>\n

\"tempt\"Tempt<\/h3>\n

What tempted me to try Tempt Coffee Biscotti<\/strong> “frozen dessert” ($2 for a pint at GO) was that it’s main ingredient: hemp milk<\/a>.\u00a0 Sure, I knew there would be nothing “naughty” in the ice cream, but I like the idea of supporting the hemp industry.\u00a0 Alas, the “ice cream” was very disappointing.\u00a0 The texture is nice enough, quite creamy, but the ice cream’s flavor is very mild and somewhat off putting.\u00a0 According to my daughter, the after taste is better than the taste, however.\u00a0 Tempt could probably improve this flavor, at least, by using more coffee so the coffee flavor is stronger, but they should also forgo the soggy, flavorless, gluten-free biscotti.<\/p>\n

Tempt uses mostly organic ingredients, chief among them rice, but it also includes oil in its formula.\u00a0 In all, it’s probably not a terrible choice for vegans, but others will probably want to avoid it.<\/p>\n

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