NutritionDoc

Add chocolate coating to ice cream and you boost the bad fat. Add fruit and you crowd the bad fat out.  Take the prototype Creamsicle - a core of low fat vanilla ice cream surrounded by orange or raspberry sherbet. It has got just 1 gram of bad fat and only 70 to 100 calories depending on the size.

 

No Sugar Added or Sugar Free Creamsicles cut the calories to around 20, but they use poorly tested acesulfame potassium to get there. Instead, look for Tropicana Lights or No Sugar Added Swirls, which throw in some orange juice or strawberries and use Splenda and sugar alcohols to cut the calories to 50 or 60. Mmmmmmm.

 

Concoctions that swirl fruit throughout the cream may be too sweet for many palates. If that is you, try Fruitfull Strawberry Cream, which strikes the perfect balance between fruity and creamy.