Roundy's Select Gelato — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates Roundy's Select Gelato by Roundy's Select TREAT — score 45/90.

A real-dairy vanilla gelato that's indulgent by design — lots of sugar and fat — but the ingredient list is mostly recognizable: milk, cream, butter, egg yolk, real bourbon vanilla. A couple of standard stabilizers and corn syrup keep it from being clean, but this is a simple dessert, not a lab creation.

Why this verdict

• Sugar and corn syrup make this a high-sugar dessert
• Cream, butter and egg yolk push it to high saturated fat and calorie density
• Real dairy and real bourbon vanilla — ingredients are recognizable, not lab-built
• Two stabilizers plus an emulsifier, but standard for frozen dessert

Ingredients (12)

• whole milk (safe) — Real dairy base; protein, calcium and natural fats.
• Sugar (moderate) — Added sugar sitting ahead of cocoa; the main flavor driver here.
• cream (moderate) — Real dairy fat, the one genuinely good base here, but heavily outnumbered.
• BUTTER (moderate) — Real dairy fat; fine in small amounts but saturated.
• Corn Syrup (concerning) — Cheap glucose syrup; pure added sugar with no nutrition, here as the second-largest ingredient.
• egg yolk (safe) — Used as an emulsifier; not a health concern in this amount.
• Skim Milk (safe) — More real dairy; adds protein and body without extra fat.
• Bourbon Vanilla Extract (safe) — Real vanilla flavoring.
• Mono and Diglycerides (concerning) — Industrial emulsifier and a known hiding spot for trace trans fats not declared on the label.
• sodium alginate (moderate) — Seaweed-derived gelling/thickening agent — generally safe, signals processing.
• Locust Bean Gum (safe) — Plant stabilizer; controls ice crystals.
• Vanilla Bourbon Seeds (safe) — Real vanilla bean seeds — a genuine, recognizable ingredient.