Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Ice Cream — DUMP

Name: Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Ice Cream
Brand: Ben & Jerry's

Munch or Dump rates Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Ice Cream by Ben & Jerry's DUMP — score 20/90.

The base is honest — real cream, eggs, butter, flour. But the full formula runs 27 ingredients deep with five separate sugar sources and a three-part stabilizer stack. That's not a scoop shop recipe; that's an industrial sweetness system with excellent PR.

Why this verdict

27 ingredients — more than triple what ice cream needs; past 18, the list itself is the verdict
Multiple sweeteners detected — sweetness engineered, not simple: liquid sugar, sugar, brown sugar, invert cane sugar, and molasses are five distinct sugar sources
Stabilizer stack: guar gum + carrageenan + soy lecithin working together to fake fresh-churned texture
About 28g of sugar per 100g — over a quarter of the pint is straight sugar
Genuinely real dairy, eggs, and cocoa underneath — which is why it's DUMP and not worse

Ingredients (12)

cream (safe) — Real butterfat, second on the list.
Liquid sugar (sugar, water) (moderate) — Added sugar, ingredient two. First of five sugar sources in this list.
brown sugar (caution) — Second sweetener stacked with sugar — a sweetness system, not a pinch.
Invert cane sugar (moderate) — Processed sugar syrup that keeps texture soft — sugar source four.
molasses (moderate) — Sugar source five. Five sweeteners is a system, not a recipe.
Soybean Oil (moderate) — Refined seed oil, listed twice — cheap fat carrying the dough and brownie chunks.
Carrageenan (caution) — Seaweed-derived texturizer; debated gut irritant, and a sign of industrial formulation.
Guar Gum (moderate) — Thickener for instant-mix texture; harmless for most, but a processing marker.
Soy Lecithin (moderate) — An emulsifier derived from soybeans, generally considered safe but indicative of processing.
Natural flavor (moderate) — Undisclosed flavoring; natural-sourced but still a lab-blended ingredient.
Egg Yolks (safe) — Real eggs — the custard touch that earns the 'homestyle' flavor.
wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour, the bulk of the breading.