Look around and you’ll see new vegan ice cream options popping up everywhere—because you, the consumer, expressed an interest in having these products available. Many major ice cream companies now offer dairy-free ice cream, which is a huge step forward for animals. By choosing options from this list, you can help prevent cows from being used for their milk. In the dairy industry, calves are stolen from their mothers shortly after birth. Cows are doting and devoted mothers who will fight to defend their young, and you’ll be helping to end this torturous cycle by eating only vegan ice cream.
Keep mother cows with their calves—check out these vegan ice cream flavors from brands you’ll love:
SorBabes
These decadent and delicious vegan treats deliver creamy perfection in every bite. You’ll surely find SorBabes bars irresistible, with flavor just as bold as the two inspiring women who created them. If SorBabes isn’t yet at your local grocery store, you can still get your hands on these mouthwatering bars through online ordering.
JD’s Vegan Dairy-Free Frozen Dessert
Music producer and longtime vegan Jermaine Dupri launched his own line of vegan ice creams, all made with a creamy coconut base. The brand offers six delicious flavors: Key Lime Pie; Strawberry Sweetheart; Welcome to Atlanta, Peach Cobbler; Apple Butter; Chocolate My Way; and (404) Cookies & Cream. Find them at a Walmart location near you.
KIND Frozen Plant Based Creamy Frozen Dessert
KIND is known for its nut and energy bars—some of which are vegan—but the company has branched out into the dessert world with a new line of vegan ice cream. Flavors include Dark Chocolate Almond Sea Salt, Cherry Cashew, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter, Pistachio, Strawberry, Coffee Hazelnut, and Caramel Almond Sea Salt.
Oatly Frozen Desserts
This oat milk brand knows how to make a super-creamy and delicious frozen dessert that’s also kind to cows. Oatly’s ice cream pints are available in 10 flavors: Chocolate Chip, Mint Chip, Coffee, Strawberry, Chocolate, Vanilla, Oat, Salted Caramel, Fudge Brownie, and Raspberry Swirl.
Doozy Pots
This creamy gelato made from hemp and oat milk comes in five flavors: Vanilla Bean, Banana Cinnamon Date Swirl, Coffee & Cookies, Chocolate Raspberry Swirl, and Chocolate Mint Chip.
Daily Harvest
This smoothie brand launched a line of coconut-based vegan ice cream with added health benefits from ingredients such as ashwagandha, probiotics, and pine pollen. Flavors include Strawberry + Rich, Rippled Berry Compote; Vanilla + Salted, Swirled Black Sesame; Mint + Dark, Melty Cacao Chips; and Chocolate + Ooey, Gooey Midnight Fudge.
O’MY! Dairy Free Gelato
O’MY! is a woman-owned brand that makes rich dairy-free and allergy-friendly gelato with only a few ingredients. Choose from 10 flavors: Chocolate, Vanilla, Mint Chip, Coffee Chip, Orange Cream, Strawberry, Cake Batter, I Love Chocolate, Cake Walk, and Root Beer Float.
Alden’s Organic
Made from brown rice, oat flour, coconut oil, and pea protein, ice cream from Alden’s Organic comes in nine pint-sized nondairy flavors, including Caramel Almond Crunch, Freckled Mint Chip, and Double Strawberry. The brand also stepped it up with two varieties of vegan ice cream sandwiches: Vanilla Bean Round Sammie and Caramel Drizzle Round Sammie. Find these flavors at Sprouts Farmers Market and other stores.
Van Leeuwen
Van Leeuwen serves up scoops at its shops and food trucks in Los Angeles and New York, but you can also grab pints in select grocery stores and online. With a wide variety of vegan flavors such as Oat Milk Brown Sugar Chunk, Cookies & Cream Caramel Swirl, and Cookie Crumble Strawberry Jam, you can’t go wrong.
Häagen-Dazs
Häagen-Dazs offers seven vegan ice cream flavors available in the U.S.: Chocolate Salted Fudge Truffle, Coconut Caramel, Mocha Chocolate Cookie, Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Fudge Bar, Coconut Caramel Dark Chocolate Bar, and Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge Bar.
Coolhaus
Coolhaus has dairy-free pints, with flavors such as Salted Caramel Crunch, Dirty Mint Chip, and Peanut Butter Fudge Chip. The extra cherry on top? The brand has also introduced four vegan ice cream cookie sandwiches, including Cookies & Cream and Tahitian Vanilla. Yes, you heard us right: Vegan. Ice. Cream. Cookie. Sandwiches.
Enlightened
You’ll love this brand’s vegan ice cream pints, which have just 80 to 100 calories per serving. Check out the Dairy-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter, Triple Shot Espresso, Chocolate Almond Macaron, or Monkey Business flavors.
Perry’s Ice Cream
Oat milk has revolutionized the vegan milk industry. Now, Perry’s Ice Cream is revolutionizing its ice cream lineup with new dairy-free Oats Cream! The brand partnered with plant-based beverage maker Elmhurst to produce seven oat milk ice cream flavors. Try Apple Strudel, Blueberry Pancake, Coconut Caramel, Oat Latte, Peanut Butter Coffee Cake, Peanut Butter & Cookies, or Snickerdoodle Oats Cream.
Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s now offers no fewer than 20 vegan flavors: Americone Dream, Bananas Foster Core, Boom Chocolata Core, Mint Chocolate Chance, Karamel Sutra Core, Phish Food, The Tonight Dough, Colin Kaepernick’s Change the Whirled, “Milk” & Cookies, Crème Brûlée Cookie, Mint Chocolate Cookie, Netflix & Chilll’d, Caramel Almond Brittle, Cherry Garcia, Chocolate Caramel Cluster, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Chocolate Salted ‘n Swirled, Coconut Seven Layer Bar, Coffee Caramel Fudge, P.B. & Cookies, and Peanut Butter Half Baked. Are you as excited as we are? Thought so.
NadaMoo!
We feel so lucky that NadaMoo continues to unveil new flavors! The newest offerings include Banana Caramel Crunch, Peach Cobbler, and Marshmallow Stardust. This brand uses coconut milk to create its delicious ice cream, which comes in these other fine flavors: Cookies & Crème, Lotta Mint Chip, Creamy Coconut, PB & Chocolate, Gotta Do Chocolate, Vanilla Cha Chai, Chocolate Almond Chip, Mmm…Maple Pecan, Sweet Cherry Lime, Vanilla…ahhh, and Java Crunch.
Halo Top
Halo Top offers its lovely pints of low-cal ice cream in several sweet vegan flavors! Take your pick from Chocolate Almond Crunch, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Peanut Butter Cup, and Sea Salt Caramel.
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Target-Brand Favorite Day
Target stores are now even more vegan-friendly, thanks to their new lineup of vegan ice creams. The nondairy frozen desserts from Target’s private label, Favorite Day, are made with almond milk and come in several delicious flavors.
Arctic Zero
Arctic Zero has sold lactose-free ice cream for years, but never vegan—until now. The popular brand of low-calorie frozen treats transitioned its lactose-free line to a vegan lineup of delicious, animal-friendly pints and bars. Current flavors include Cake Batter, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Classic Vanilla, Cookie Shake, Hint of Mint, Pistachio, Purely Chocolate, and Salted Caramel.
McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams
For 70 years, Santa Barbara–based McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams was known for its dairy “products.” Now, the brand is giving the people what they want: vegan flavors. The deliciously creamy dairy-free options include flavors such as Passion Fruit Lemon Swirl, Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch, Salted Caramel Chocolate Swirl, and Vanilla Bean. The new flavors go “well with Netflix and couches” but don’t “go well with milk as that would kinda defeat the whole purpose,” according to the company. Visit your local Gelson’s or Bristol Farms to pick up a pint, or click here to find out if you’re near a McConnell’s scoop shop. If you’re not near these supermarkets or a scoop shop, no problem—the brand’s dairy-free flavors are available to ship straight to your front door.
365 Everyday Value
The Whole Foods brand has recently unveiled an almond milk–based vegan ice cream. The new dessert is available in select Southern California stores, and we hope if people buy enough of it, it’ll be sold in a wider release soon. The long list of flavors includes Vanilla Bean, Chocolate, Berry Chantilly Cake, Mint Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Swirl, Coconut Almond Bliss, and Mocha Java Fudge. The product line is also gluten-free and non-GMO.
Breyers
Breyers carries four flavors of delicious almond milk ice cream. Vanilla Peanut Butter, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Chocolate Chocolate Chip are waiting for you on store shelves, so check your local grocery store for availability!
Tofutti
Check out the Tofutti Cuties line of ice cream sandwiches (available in Chocolate, Vanilla, Cookies ‘N Cream, and Mint Chocolate Chip!). In addition, the Tofutti brand offers pints of Vanilla Almond Bark, “Better” Pecan, and Wild Berry Supreme vegan ice cream, among others.
Talenti
Vegan sorbetto flavors include Alphonso Mango, Roman Raspberry, and Peanut Butter Fudge. The latter is truly a gift from vegan heaven. Talenti is also adding its first vegan sorbetto with layers: Coconut Chocolate Cookie.
Cosmic Bliss
Cosmic Bliss’ organic vegan line features coconut milk–based ice creams that are pure bliss. These are just some of the delectable pint flavors: Legendary Cookie Dough, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate, Chocolate Hazelnut Decadence, Chocolate Walnut Brownie, Sweet Cherry Amaretto, Mint Chip Galactica, Golden Banana Brownie Swirl, Infinite Coconut, Dark Chocolate, and Madagascan Vanilla Bean. The brand also makes various chocolate-coated ice cream bars and two varieties of ice cream cookie sandwiches.
Ciao Bella
Check out all these sophisticated sorbetto flavors: Alphonso Mango, Bartlett Pear Hibiscus, Dark Cocoa, Coconut, Mario Blackberry Cabernet, Pacific Northwest Raspberry, Sicilian Blood Orange, Sicilian Limone, White Peach Sangria, and Wild Italian Strawberry Limonata.
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Double Rainbow
These scrumptious soy ice cream flavors are to die for, except no one had to: Mint Chocolate Chip, Vanilla Bean, Lively Lemon Sorbet, Oat’s a Goody, and Mango Tangerine Sorbet.
Trader Joe’s
Check out Trader Joe’s vegan ice cream options, including the Soy Creamy Cherry Chocolate Chip and Vanilla ice cream.
Remember: Desserts, even vegan desserts, should always be consumed in moderation. So should these delicious frozen yogurt flavors, which you should check out immediately.
