What are the Top 8 ice lollies?
Is there really fruit in them, and is it of any nutritional value by the time we eat it? Could they have less calories than an ice-cream? And what about a split — a little ice-cream coated in a fruit purée? A compromise?
I have given calorie values, but there wasn’t a huge difference between the samples surveyed. Add a few saturated fats for anything with ice-cream in it, but regard any lollies as treats anyway.
Sugar and even the low amount of salt in these lollies will cause, not slake, a thirst, so while they are icy and cooling, it’s a good idea to have water to hand — and not a sugary/fizzy drink — they are not the solution to a thirst. As for real fruit content, they certainly cannot be depended on to provide any of our five-a-day. But by choosing carefully we can at least enjoy those with the most fruit and a taste of real fruit.
We had plenty of choices. Those that didn’t make the grade had some odd flavours, often quite synthetic, and had a strange oily texture with less fruit than our final choices. We looked for tastes that were refreshing, and wthe tasters were almost unanimous in our final scoring.
