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FairPrice Potong Red Bean Ice Cream

806 days ago

Yes, they are not healthy food. But sometimes we just need to relax and enjoy our food once in a while and this of course includes ice cream. Just remember not to eat too much because they do contain a lot of sugars. If you consume them in moderation, there should be not long term bad effects on your body. However, I just love ice cream. In a warm tropical country like Singapore, what is better than an ice-cream in the such warm weather. Thus, it is not surprising to see that ice-cream is one of the most popular snacks in Singapore. Thank the gods for ice-cream. Anyway, I usually don’t go for those high-sugar lolly pop style ice-cream – too sweet for my taste. I prefer ice cream with real fruits and a good portion of real frozen cream. And of course chocolate ice-cream. Now, if you can find someone in Singapore who hates chocolate ice-cream, please tell me. I would like very much to interview him or her.

Anyhow, I purchased this pack of ice-cream from NTUC. The brand name is FairPrice, so it is fairly obvious that it is related to NTUC supermarket. These people are very unimaginative, so when it comes to names, they probably don’t want to brain too much brain cells over. And of course, design of the wrapping is also not important. They are probably banking on the price and the FairPrice brand name to sell. And Singaporeans taste isn’t that good anyway, so I guess this could really sell. Just put them in every NTUC supermarket you can find and they will be off the shelves in no time.

The FairPrice Kool Potong Ice Cream – Red Bean! There are 6 sticks of ice cream in this pack. Each weights about 65g. Check out the picture on the pack, looks like the ice cream got smallpox.

Ahhh….produced in Malaysia. Even NTUC don’t manufacture their stuff in Singapore anymore. They are not supporting Singapore industries one bit. Sad if you think about it – it is all about money these days.

The ingredients are water, red bean, coconut milk, sugar, milk solids, palm oil, stabiliser and emulsifier and permitted colouring. Not bad, at least it doesn’t come with a ingredients list of all sorts of unknown chemicals and what-not. Hmmm….it contains lactose? Should be from the milk solids. I wonder why they add milk solids into this coconut milk ice-cream? Probably we are so used to ice-cream made from cow’s milk that consumers might not appreciate the taste of ice-cream made from just coconut milk.

Ahhh…Styrofoam. Helps to keep the ice-cream cold during transportation. However, I find this really unnecessary. But from what I read, styrofoam is pretty cheap, so it should not impact on the final price, I hope.