Quest for the Best – Healthier Ice Cream

***Updated August 28th, 2021***

Looking for some ice cream to cool down for summer or just enjoy with a movie?  Well, if you’re skipping out on making your own ice cream (like this one or this one) and are opting for your local freezer aisle instead, here’s a breakdown of the protein/light/healthier ice creams you might find there!  I decided to try to compare all the chocolate flavors against each other since that’s the gold standard in my book.  I could have gone vanilla, but that wouldn’t have been as much fun for me 🙂  Of course, some brands don’t do regular old chocolate, so I went with what I could find or whatever I thought might be closest to the classic.

With my latest update to this post, I added some ice creams that are just lighter or healthier (but not necessarily protein-packed).  Because they’re not all specifically protein ice creams, I decided to rank them based primarily off of taste and texture.  If two brands were tied, I ranked them based on protein content.  Hopefully this helps you decide which one to try next!

Here’s the link to get to the full spread sheet for easy comparing – you can also get to each product’s spreadsheet by clicking on any of the snippets from the spreadsheet under each picture.  Side note – the prices listed here may vary by your location or store you buy it in.  These are just the suggested retail prices.

Quick rundown of different colors you’ll see below:

• Light blue box on the spreadsheet means that a brand won out in that category.
• Yellow (on the macro ratio) indicates carb content.
• Blue (on the macro ratio) indicates protein content.
• Green (on the macro ratio) indicates fat content

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1. Enlightened Light Ice Cream

2. Trader Joe’s Light Ice Cream

3. Halo Top Frozen Dessert – Chocolate

4. Arctic Zero Light Ice Cream – Chocolate Chunk

5. Breyers Delights Low Fat Ice Cream – Creamy Chocolate

6. Skinny Cow Low Fat Ice Cream – Oh Fudge Cookie

7. Chilly Cow Light Ice Cream – Chocolate Brownie Batter

8. Ben & Jerry’s Moo-Phoria Light Ice Cream – P.B. Dough

9. Forte Gelato – Chocolate

10. Archer Farms Light Ice Cream – Chocolate Peanut Butter

11. Enlightened Keto Ice Cream

12. ProYo – Dutch Chocolate

13. Yasso Frozen Greek Yogurt – Chocolate PB & Yay

14. Slim Twin Organic Ice Cream – Chocolate

15. Arctic Zero – Purely Chocolate

16. Thrive Ice Cream – Simply Chocolate

Here’s the link to that full spreadsheet again!