# Making Diet Ice Cream **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 1, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125 "2018-07-01T23:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![molten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@molten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/molten)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/1 "2018-07-01T23:49:30Z")
I have recently discovered some ice cream (on a stick) brands here in the states that are only 100 calories a piece. They are awesome but because people are averse to artificial flavoring I have to sprinkle splenda on the ice cream to get it sweet enough. BTW: how do they make the ice cream to taste like peanut butter with little calories?? where do I get that extract! I would like to make my own already sweetened ice cream using the following ingredients (and whatever else is needed): - kefir or greek yogurt - Splenda and stevia - Xanthan gum - Coffee and vanilla extracts Okay that is all that I know so far… I have never made ice cream and I have no idea what is needed or how to proceed. Does anyone have a recipe with these ingredients included or a general direction for me to follow? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/2 "2018-07-01T23:58:41Z")
Try [PB2](https://www.vitacost.com/bell-plantation-pb2-powdered-peanut-butter-6-5-oz-4) - it’s de-fatted peanut powder. I use it in my protein shake, along with raw whey protein isolate. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/3 "2018-07-02T02:39:24Z")
[Sherbet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_sherbet) [Sorbet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbet) ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/4 "2018-07-02T03:21:23Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Try [PB2](https://www.vitacost.com/bell-plantation-pb2-powdered-peanut-butter-6-5-oz-4) - it’s de-fatted peanut powder. Man that stuff is good! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/5 "2018-07-02T09:00:29Z")
By coincidence, this article about Justin Woolverton, the founder and chief executive of ice cream brand Halo Top was on the BBC website today. > [@](#): > > The idea for the ice cream came about because of restrictions he made to his diet to manage his blood sugar levels. > > At home, instead of sugary treats, he’d have a bowl of Greek yogurt with fruit, to which he would add the sweetener stevia. > > After buying a $20 ice cream maker he put the mixture through it to see what it would taste like. “It was delicious. So from there, it was like: ‘Holy cow, if I like this why wouldn’t other people like it?’.” > > Mr Woolverton then started experimenting with ingredients, including replacing the yogurt with milk, to make the concoction behave more like ice cream when frozen and enable it to be produced on a mass scale. > > “It honestly took a year of complete failure at the beginning,” he says. > > [The man who created a $2bn ice cream firm in his kitchen - BBC News](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44614104) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/6 "2018-07-02T09:52:20Z")
Frozen bananas are a pretty damn good substitute for ice cream (providing you like the flavour of banana, and are OK with the calorie and nutrition profile of bananas of course) - you just take a ripe banana (yellow with brown speckles), peel it and wrap in cling film, then freeze - they can be unwrapped and eaten as they are (they freeze fairly soft and bite-able if you don’t have sensitive teeth), or if you have a blender that can handle it, they can be blended from frozen with other flavourings to make a decent spoonable icea cream substitute. ---
**Author:** ![albino\_manatee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/albino_manatee/32/2_2.png) [@albino\_manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/albino_manatee)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/7 "2018-07-02T12:03:44Z")
somethin’ to keep in mind … some people suffer from peanut allergies. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-diet-ice-cream/817125/8 "2018-07-02T17:22:45Z")
There are many companies that produce non-caloric flavoring for the consumer market… I personally use Lorann Oils in a lot of my baking and most of them are pretty good. They do offer a peanut butter flavoring but I’ve never used it so YMMV