Cow Belle Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream — DUMP
Munch or Dump rates Cow Belle Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream by Cow Belle DUMP — score 20/90.
A simple scoop of ice cream this is not. It's a 25+ ingredient lab build stacking corn syrup, rice syrup and sugar with palm oil, interesterified soybean oil, polysorbate 80, three different cellulose/carrageenan gums and double-dosed mono & diglycerides.
Why this verdict
- Three separate sweeteners stacked: sugar, corn syrup and rice syrup
- Interesterified soybean oil and palm oil replace real dairy fat
- Polysorbate 80 plus mono & diglycerides (twice) plus carrageenan and cellulose gums
- 25+ ingredients, NOVA group 4 ultra-processed
- 17g sugar per half cup is the small print, not the headline
Ingredients (18)
- cream (moderate) — Real dairy fat, the one genuinely good base here, but heavily outnumbered.
- Milk (safe) — Whole dairy milk, a natural source of protein, calcium, and fat.
- Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar sitting ahead of cocoa; the main flavor driver here.
- Corn Syrup (concerning) — Cheap glucose syrup; pure added sugar with no nutrition, here as the second-largest ingredient.
- rice syrup (concerning) — A third distinct sweetener, pushing this into engineered-sweetness territory.
- Palm Oil (moderate) — Refined oil added for mouthfeel; high in saturated fat with no whole-food benefit.
- Interesterified soybean oil (concerning) — Chemically rearranged fat used as a trans-fat workaround; nothing whole-food about it.
- POLYSORBATE 80 (concerning) — Synthetic detergent-emulsifier shown in studies to disrupt gut microbiota and the mucus barrier.
- Mono & diglycerides (concerning) — Processed-fat emulsifier, appears twice; a hidden source of trans fats.
- Carrageenan (concerning) — Seaweed-derived stabilizer linked to intestinal inflammation in animal studies.
- Cellulose Gum (moderate) — Processed wood-pulp fiber used as a cheap bulking thickener; texture filler, not food.
- Cellulose gel (moderate) — Another processed cellulose bulking/stabilizing agent.
- cocoa processed with alkali (moderate) — Dutched cocoa for color and mild flavor, but alkalizing strips most of the antioxidant flavanols.
- wheat flour (moderate) — Refined flour — fast carbs, little fibre, spikes blood sugar.
- Whey (safe) — Milk protein byproduct used for texture; harmless.
- Soy Lecithin (moderate) — Common emulsifier in the brownie; mild but adds to the additive pile.
- Natural flavor (moderate) — Undisclosed proprietary flavor blend; here to prop up flavor a tiny amount of real vanilla can't.
- Pectin (safe) — Plant-based gelling agent in the fudge ribbon.