The ULTIMATE Vegan Ice Cream Ranking
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Timecodes:
0:00 - intro
0:53 - rules of ranking system
1:36 - green chef
3:16 - vanilla ice creams
7:23 - flavored ice creams
14:20 - ice cream dip sticks
16:06 - mochi
16:42 - outro
OKAY SO CLEARLY I have to do a part 2 of the vegan ice creams so if you could drop your brand recs here I will be forever grateful
the haagen daaz non dairy is the BEST vegan ice cream, especially the chocolate salted fudge truffle flavor.
Dariy Queen has dairy free dilly bars! They are so so good!
So Delicious vanilla Wondermilk frozen dessert!!!!! Or VanLewen Vanilla
No idea why so delicious has so many damn versions. Wondermilk and Cashew versions and the best.
So delicious wondermilk!
Honestly, I really like the SoDelicious cashew milk ice cream pints in the vanilla and salted caramel. Maybe give those a shot and see what you think.
Yes! The SoDelicious cashew milk vanilla is by far the BEST i've tried....
I really like their coconut milk mint chip flavor
@@kennedyhoshor6203 their coconut milk ice cream is so chalky to me. idk if ur in TX but HEB has a coconut based mint choc ice cream that is sooooo creamy
Cashew anything is better than anything else. Cashew cheeses, cashew milks and ice creams... They're just the creamiest.
Their salted caramel ice cream is some of the best ice cream I've ever had, vegan or not. I'm so upset she didn't try it!!
I'm not vegan or dairyfree but the So Delicious Cashew Milk icecream is my absolute favorite! Especially the salted caramel cookie dough flavor
Thanks for the advice. No problem eating whatever but if you got a tasty plant based thingy, I will be down for it. I have been trying to enjoy the world of fake foods but so far, very disappointed so I am here.
I love the snickerdoodle 😊
I hated the salted caramel cashew milk one😡 o tried to get an apple pie with caramel flavor but I did not like that ice cream at all. So delicious vanilla bean coconut milk is definitely a win
@@julianc.mcclainthank god bruh I was looking at that one today but didn’t get anything
@@julianc.mcclain I recommend this brand for keto for sure but if when you can do sugar haagen daas or Alec’s is the best
I don't usually like things overly sweet, but I think the salted caramel cashewmilk bars from So Delicious are soooo good! The chocolate shell is the perfect balance of bittersweetness and melts in your mouth, and the salty caramel kind of offsets the sweetness of the ice cream. I honestly couldn't believe it when you spit it out. I love all their cashewmilk ice creams.
Same!
Right? I was confused because there's no way those bars are sweeter than the Ben n Jerry's she liked!
Not a lot of vegan options in my area, but Ben & Jerry's is my tried and true. I hardly bother with anything else. Their almond milk line is sooooo good, especially their chocolate chip cookie dough. Aldi's store brand vanilla almond milk ice cream is great, but unfortunately it's one of their seasonal offerings.
Yes. "Netflix and chill" is my favorite then "cherry Garcia".
I personally don’t like them. They all taste like almond milk still with a weird fake sugar aftertaste.
@@Pixie2sweet same, with beyond tons of sugar and calories
@@Pixie2sweet try the sunflower Ben and Jerry’s one! I don’t like almond milk, and my boyfriend is allergic, so we tried the sunflower one and it’s SO FUCKING GOOD.
The Coffee oatly is gasssss
Been vegan 3 weeks and your videos are partly because of that. Love this, love you ❤️
YAYYYY I’m happy to help, queen!
Merle, did you know that magnum now makes a vegan ice cream bar? It’s amazing 🤍🤍🤍
Oh SHEEET we gonna have to do a part 2 - lmk if there are more I missed 👀
@@MerleONeal so delicious has drumsticks that are really good!
@@MerleONeal also, so delicious has a new formula called "wonder milk" and it is SO much better than their previous formula. We've tried the chocolate and strawberry wonder milk ones and they are good, still pretty sweet, but way better!
Trader Joe’s has a number of vegan ice creams and “novelties” like sandwiches and cones. I think we need a part 2 for sure!
there's also jeni's which is vegan!
I love the so delicious cashew milk flavors specifically: salted caramel and peanut butter brownie are the best
Yes! Also the frozen salted caramel bars 🤤
I grew up with Rice Dream ice cream in the 90s… almost anything else is pretty damn good when you were used to one option in the 90s 🤷🏻♀️
Damn
ain't that the truth
Same!!
oh my god. That was the ice cream i had growing up in the 2000's with my dairy allergy.
@Sarah Baker still have them! I love them! The mini ones ❤️
For the best “dipped sticks” you need to try the Magnum Non-Dairy almond milk ice cream bars. (Green/Gold) you’re welcome 😉
yes 🧎♀️🧎♀️🧎♀️
yes 100%
yessss theyre super goood.
The 365 chocolate peanut butter swirl one is in my top faves because of that peanut butter swirl..its so thick, kinda salty..makes the whole ice cream worth it. and they don't make it difficult to get big spoonfuls of the peanut butter.
Also, the only SoDelicious ice cream I get is their CASHEWMILK version of Salted Caramel! It is lifechanging. I've tried their other flavors/alternative milks and they are just not as good as the cashewmilk salted caramel
I never had the peanut butter one because I eat it frequently enough outside of ice cream, the salted caramel one you mentioned is literally my favorite though lol
I don't know why, but the Oatly raspberry swirl tastes so much better than the other flavors. It's creamier with more flavor. Best vegan ice cream I've had.
Agreed so good as well as their berry yogurt 🤤
I love Oatly salted caramel
When I went vegan 17 years ago I don't remember many choices in vegan ice cream, maybe a toffutti or a sorbet, so it wasn't something I regularly shopped for if at all.
Now there are so many ice cream options that vegans are spitting some out in utter disgust. Never imagined I'd see the day...
Omg yes!!! I am excited about this one!! My husband found a passion fruit vegan ice cream at Whole Foods and I’m obsessed but I could use some more to have lol I love these videos cuz you help me save money by not having to get a bunch of gross options lol
YESSSSSS BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!!!!
always love watching Merle~
I never noticed how well Merle can do her makeup. I love her eyeshadow in this video. She’s so pretty 🙃
The So Delicious Vanilla Bean with oat milk is very good. It’s creamy and taste a lot like vanilla!
Love your videos and the muffins reference!
When I got diagnosed with chemical fragrance allergy the first thing my doctor told me was that I couldn’t have ice cream because artificial flavors always and natural flavors almost always contain perfume! For some reason she primarily associated that with ice cream…So the suntan lotion and toothpaste flavor comparisons make sense on a chemical level. I’m not vegan but I’ve been so happy to find some Oatly vegan ice creams without the perfume aka flavors and for FODMAP friendliness.
For anyone that lives in Texas, I highly recommend the HEB brand dairy free ice cream. I just recently tried it and the vanilla flavor is hands down the best ever vegan ice cream I've tasted. I have tasted a few of their other flavors too and they were all yummy
I second this!! The strawberry in particular is insanely good.
Putting that on my list for next time!
I've been waiting for this one yaaas
Loving the muffins quote you threw in there 😉 thank you for this video it's honestly so difficult to find good vegan ice cream that actually tastes like real ice cream 🍦 😋
Love these videos! I must also say that I would love it if you put out a recipe book. I would buy it immediately!
Cashew milk ice creams are always my favorite.
Dawwwww thank u 🥹 Maybe some day!
Merle, I'm curious about how long these ice creams were sitting out. A lot of vegan ice creams (esp. coconut milk) are downright icy straight from the fridge. Even my favorite (Ben & Jerry's) benefits from a 20 second zap in the microwave.
On an unrelated note Trader Joe's vegan ice cream is weirdly, but nicely,creamy even IN the freezer. I thought my freezer was broken but everything else was frozen as it should be
@@blurryinterests Bryer's almond milk mint chocolate chip ice cream is also pretty creamy straight from the freezer.
@@blurryinterests agreed. I had black tea boba flavor and its the best. Creamy and so good.
I def didn't zap any of them, but most were out for at least 5-10 minutes. but to be honest, most were melting too fast - only a few were solid like blocks
Merle, we don’t have some of those here in the UK 🇬🇧, but the 360 and oat-ly we definitely have. Keep video coming 💟💜
😂😂😂 Love these videos! You’re hair looks fantastic ♥️
Love these videos!!🥰
I fucken love Merle and all the wholesome content she brings us cause we do need it and I need do need it so yay thanks so much for much ha! as far as these go, I haven't had any of them so 🤷♂️ but still so appreciate this video!! 🤗🤗
Can you try Vegan Yogurt ranking? I went to the store and there were soo.. many vegan Yogurt brands. ( SoDelicious also has a brand that I tried, which I would say is pretty spot on to dairy Yogurt)
YES absolutely on the list
Ooo....what about vegan cheese puffs??? It would be very interesting to see vegan brands take on the challange
@@MerleONeal I suggest going to whole foods, it has lots of different brands>3
Suggestions of brands
So delicious mixed berry flavor
Forager mango flavor
Oatly strawberry flavor
Yaaaas so many taste so bad or like lipstick!
@@lydiad3575 the daiya yoghurt game me whiplash from how bad it tasted 💀💀
You crack me up lafy I love your videos
for ice cream, ben and jerrys is also my go to. i personally am a huge fan of the milk and cookies flavor, i've had the dairy version and non dairy and i feel like they taste identical. for ice cream bars the magnum non dairy are AMAZING. 😃
lmao, noice muffins reference, it's funny cuz before you made the reference, you had spoken in such a way earlier in the video where I already thought of the muffins video. hah. this was thorough and dope, go Merle 🥰🙌🍨👏👏🤤
hehehehe glad you got the reference
Muffins!! Hahah definitely obsessed with that video growing up 😂 so glad you made this reference LOL
Ah Merle you absolutely MADE MY DAY with that old school “muffins” reference at 12:07!! I haven’t heard that in forever!
Love your honesty & dedication to ranking all of these!!
Awwww Emery I'm so glad it made ya smile. I used to watch that video on repeat growing up hehehe. Thanks for the love
man, I'm amazed at how many options you have over there! I'm of the mindset "if it's delicious and vegan, why bother with the non-vegan alternative?". So far ice cream, chocolate and cheese are the ones I haven't found a replacement for. Meat? Don't need it. Milk? Don't drink it. Cheese will probably be impossible, but I'll definitely give Oatly and Ben&Jerry's ice cream a try. Doesn't have to mimic dairy ice cream as long as it's yummy
When you tried the three flavors you didn’t like again a second time, I immediately said to myself, “This is such a Merlie girl thing to do.” lmaoooo. Loved this so much. 💛
NEW ICE CREAM BRAND ALERT - I worked for a new dairy free ice cream for one of my consulting classes, it's called SweetPea and its made from chickpea protein! It's a heck of a lot more creamy than usual plant-based ice cream and it doesn't have that weird aftertaste, please try it, they deserve more awareness!!
Those might be the greatest bunch of reactions I have ever seen in a single video. GIF/meme worthy, I tells you!
As a lover of coconut, and anything made of coconut, I would probably love those coconut milk based ice creams...
I DONT KNARRR try it and lemme know - someone has to like it if they’re still churning em out!
Yeah, it's easy to make at home... coconut and ur favourite frozen fruit blended... unfortunately, it freezes like a rock so u ha e to eat it after u blend it
I love the so delicious coconut milk vanilla. The cookie dough is good too.
They also have coconut milk yogurts! Those are amazing though
the so delicious no sugar added coconut vanilla is honestly good. but i found that Coconut Bliss (little pricey) is the holy grail of all vegan ice creams
Great video! Would love to see you rank every vegan candy bar dupe next, or rank vegan protein bars, or the best store brand chocolate chip cookies, or all vegan Ben and Jerry’s flavors 😊😋
Great idea!!
Hey Merle! Love your dishes, where did you get them? Love the video x
I had Van Leeuwan when I was in NYC recently the vegan Brown Sugar Chunk and I'm in love. Going to try the 365.
I actually really like the Nada Moo birthday cake ice cream!! It’s a really good nostalgic “fun-fetti” flavor!!
Your hair looks great 😍 I’m sure I’ll have something else to say about the video but it just started & I felt compelled to tell u this first 😂🤷🏾♀️💁🏾♀️
The ranking we need! I tried coconut based ice cream before but it wasn't great haha. I might buy some B&J for tonight though
The best is oatmilk icecream to me
I LOVED THE GREEN CHEF MEAL!!!
Loved this! For part 2: Magnum dairy free ice cream bars in salted caramel and vegan Salt and Straw flavors are my absolute faves!!
Omg I totally got your reference Merle “mufffffinnnnns”🤣🤣🤣
I appreciated this video so much! As a complete and total vegan ice cream lover, I knew that Ben & Jerry’s and Vanleeuwen were gonna come out top notch, LoL. I have 8 pints of B&J in my online grocery cart as we speak! 😂😂😂 I’m only buying three though, promise. We love you, Merle! 💜💜💜
I'm not sure if you have it in the US but Swedish glace is genuinely the best! It's been our for YEARS like my mum used to eat it before she was vegan 20 years ago and my non-vegan friends love it!
Yesss, so underrated, best choc, and vanilla ice-creams ever tho I'm not a fan of their other flavours.
so delicious vanilla with cashew base is amazing.
the so delicious pb&j with oatmilk is one of faves full stop
12:00 lmao what a throw back. Such a classic 😂
LOVING the muffins reference lol🤣
I don't think any of those are worth spitting out, and So Delicious is pretty good. Plus, melty ice cream is so much better than hard ice cream.
Different strokes! I'm glad you like So Delicious - clearly people do or they wouldn't be in business, just tasted terrible to me - everyone's taste buds are different!
@@MerleONeal try the sugared version. That one is my go to
Nada moo is so gross. I took one bite and throw the whole pint away.
I can’t eat so delicious 😅😅 unless it’s I think they have a cashew milk caramel one…… so delicious is gross to me
Agreed. 😊
So delicious vanilla CASHEW MILK is the redeemer for so delicious brand… I hate all the others but the cashew milk is up there for me
I love the content!! Can you do a best brand for mayo, please. Just has discontinued Just Mayo, my favorite. I made the aquafaba mayo once, sometimes I just want to buy..
The Magnum Non-Dairy Almond Bars are sooo good... Would love to see how you like them/compare them to some other options!
please try so delicious salted caramel next! its made with cashewmilk and has cashew chunks in it as well, by far my favorite
adding it to the part 2 list
If you're ever in Seattle or Erewhon in LA, try Frankie and Jo's - it's seriously the best vegan ice cream out there. Definitely pricey, but worth it.
The ben n jerry’s is literally in every 7eleven in LA, so when I’m craving some late night ice cream...comes in clutch lol
Coolhaus Horchata non dairy ice cream sandwich is my absolute favorite reward for when i grocery shop and van leeuwens is always great...i have their Frose in my freezer right now💚
That couscous salad looks tasty, I've never had couscous like that. I enjoyed this video, I usually stick with ben and jerry's but bought an HEB ice cream this time that's decent. Can you taste test ice cream sandwiches?
Ben & Jerry's does vegan ice cream so well. I love the almond brittle flavor and Colin Kaepernick's Change the Whirled. Kind bar makes plant based ice cream bars that are INSANE though...those are my all time fave.
It’s so funny how different people’s preferences can be! The Ben and Jerry’s ice creams are all way too sweet for me, yet I love the SoDelicious salted caramel ice cream bars. To each there own I guess!
The So Delicious ‘ice cream’ sandwiches are sooo good!
Hey Merle - it's super handy seeing your reviews. Do you mind trying out a Vegan Cheese review? A cheese that tastes fine raw (cold) and melted onto a dish (pizza, sandwich, etc).
Girl, that muffins reference sent me! Hilarious xo
I love the coconut milk options the most as someone who can’t have dairy and is allergic to almond coconut milk is my lifesaver
Spot on rankings. I discovered that Talenti, the gelato brand, had a few hard-to-find vegan varieties and I’d love to get your thoughts.
If you do another one, the breyers oat milk ice cream is literally the best I’ve had. I’ve been vegan for 4 years and it was insane when I first tried it!! The vanilla is literally better than every other ice cream I’ve tried.
AND the chocolate cado ice cream is also amazing!!!!!
Agree! Sometimes I'm like is this really vegan!?
Can you show more nut free dairy alternatives for vegan options. I want to incorporate more vegan options but most alternatives like cheese are nut or coconut based
I can try to hunt some down!! The Cado, Oatly, and soy milk So Delicious are nut free. Sadly, these were most of the ones I could find near me BUTTTT I will absolutely keep that in mind for rankings and recipes that I make for the channel!!
Trader Joe's has oat milk ice cream. Even ice cream sandwiches.
Jeni’s has some of my favorite vegan ice cream. Especially the cold brew with coconut cream because it’s so hard to find a vegan coffee flavored ice cream. The price is the killer on it though. So expensive but damn it tastes good.
Yaaaay✨👏🏻
Luv u✨
i love u so much and your channel. i like the halo top dairy free cookie dough and the ben and jerry’s like almost all flavors haha
and oatlyyyy🥹🥹
Aww, I love the Häagen-Dazs Dazs bars. The best! And can I just say that I was ranking these in my head because I've also tried them and we had the SAME OPINIONS! 🤣🤣🤣
For real??? I can't believe you spit the SO Delicious Salted Caramel dipped bar one out!! That is my favorite icecream ever. I have not tried the Vanlewen though. EVERYONE non- vegan that I have given the SO Delicious dipped bar to has absoloutely loved it!!
Same! I’m not even vegan but when I tried it I loved it and was blown away by how it wasn’t dairy ice cream.
LOL Don't you just love how cats show you up every single time lol. Angel ignores me all day long unless she wants food OR if I'm on a video meeting OR a live stream then she is all over me like a hot rash lol Great video ... I would love to get some of the VL icecream here. I'm with you though I've tried a few here in the UK and there are a couple of better ones but many taste like suntan lotion
glad that you liked the Oatly ice creams. we bought some but my sister left it out overnight and so all the oat solids sort of sunk to the bottom and after that the top was flavorless so I'm kind of scarred
I actually really like the mint chip from cado. However, I also really like mint chip ice cream. It is a bit gummy though.
Now I’m asking if something’s wrong with my taste buds because I can devour some nada moo ice cream and the so delicious Dipped ice cream lol
Same! I've never tried the so delicious dipped ice cream but I can def delete a pint of nada moo vanilla in a day. I love most of the nada moo flavors.
everyone has their preferences! No shame in it whatsoever
The So Delicious made from cashews are where it's at... the other ones are not as good!
def gotta do a part 2
As a newcomer to the channel, I need to thank you for this video: I tried Van Leeuwen after watching, to see if I could recommend it to a pescatarian friend…..and I definitely can.
Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Non-Dairy was so good it made me cry
The So Delicious Salted Caramel dipped are my favorites though lol I put peanut butter on them (cuts the sweetness also) and it’s only a treat every now and then.
Out of the vegan ice creams I’ve tried, Ben & Jerry’s is by far my favorite. I’m not surprised how you ranked the So Delicious, I’d agree that their cashew milk ice creams are far better because of texture. BTW, you might try the So Delicious cashew milk ice cream in salted caramel cluster. It and the snickerdoodle cashew milk ice cream you tried are the only two So Delicious ice creams I’ll buy. Or course, now I’m going to have to finally try a few of the others you tested…
I have 2 Ben & Jerry's recs. "Milk" and Cookies and Americone Dream. One is made from sunflower seed butter, the other is made from almond milk. My husband eats vegan ice cream because just doesn't do well with dairy. I've tried both of these flavors and thoroughly enjoy them. Very comparable to dairy ice cream(imo).
BOOBURRY. I UNDERSTOOD THE REFERENCE. Such an iconic video.
Strawberry...BOOBURRY! ....bits of glass muffin. Thank you for the Muffins video throwback, Merle 😂
I am primarily plant based but I am allergic to cashews! I would love for you to find vegan cheese that’s yummy that is not cashew based. I’m struggling to get on board with vegan cheese and I could use a little help!!! 🤞🏽❤️thanks for another great video Merle!
Swedish Glace Vegan is my favourite, they have been vegan since 1990, the blueberry flavour is especially good
My favorite is the oatly blueberry oat crumble.🤤 so good
We have like bean ice cream here and its the creamiest vegan ice cream ive had. So good.
Oatly for pretty much all their products, it tends to not really be particularly similar to the dairy equivalent of the product, but basically always it’s its own really delicious thing.
It can be used similarly to the dairy one, but the taste is very different but also very yummy.
If it's available you should try the brand frozen boutique (i'm from Mexico and they sell it in Costco here), and idk if it can count as an ice cream but the açai sorbet from açai roots is really good
Target has some really good ones too from Favorite Day.
I personally really love the Coconut Bliss Coconut Almond Crunch ice cream
bars and many Ben and Jerry’s vegan flavors (PB half baked is my fav)! Also I love the Jeni’s vegan ice cream options, they’re a bit pricey but worth it in my opinion. I really like the Texas Sheet Cake flavor and I’ve had the Caramel Pecan Sticky Bun flavor which is pretty good.
What a range of reactions omg, love it. One small comment, Van Leeuwen is pronounced "Van Lay-wun" not "Van Lu-wen"
Thank you for suffering through the alternatives to help vegan/non dairy folks find the good ones!