As I mentioned, summer has suddenly arrived in the UK – at last, some might say! So thoughts turn to ice lollies, especially if you’re a child and especially if most ice creams are out of the question.
I know the girls will be hot and need cooling off when they get home from school today, so I spent ages looking around the frozen foods aisle in Tesco’s for suitable ice lollies (popsicles if you’re American). It was all rather depressing…. the ONLY ice lollies that I found which my girls could eat were some of the Tesco own brand range, including:
- Tesco Rainbow Lollies
- Tesco Valencia Orange Juice Lollies
- Tesco Helter Skelter Lollies
- Tesco Rocket Lollies
Out of ALL the other lollies I looked at they either contained milk protein, warned ‘may contain’ milk or ‘may contain’ nuts. The ‘may contain’ I understand as it’s a legal protection when the same production line is used for different products. But the “contains milk protein” tag – and I’m looking at you Del Monte 100% Juice – how on earth can a 100% fruit juice ice lolly contain milk protein? It’s been a while since I studied maths but my understanding of 100% means that there is nothing else in it?
So, ice lollies to avoid:
Ice lollies that contain milk protein or ‘may contain traces of milk’
- Del Monte Smoothie
- Del Monte Frutini
- Del Monte 100% juice
- R. Whites Lemonade
- Mini Calippo push ups
- Fruit Pastilles Lollies (may contain)
- Robinson’s Fruit Shoot Ice Lollies
Ice Lollies that may contain nuts
Obviously there are other brands out there that I didn’t come across today, and I will update this list.
UPDATE: Although not available in Tesco’s, the New Forest Ice Cream Brand is available in a lot of places where you might like to buy an ice lolly in the South of England. Of their ice lollies, the safe ones for us (no milk or nuts) are:-
- Yeti Mountain (cola and lemonade flavour)
- Super 5 (five fruit flavours)
- apple and blackcurrant
- apple and mango
- apple and raspberry
- apple and strawberry
- orange and apples
- Sainsbury’s Rocket Lollies
- Sainsbury’s Assorted Lollies (did contain barley gluten but nothing else)
- Sainsbury’s Basics Fruit Flavour (!) Lollies
- Sainsbury’s Rainbow Lollies
- Sainsbury’s Fruit Lollies
- Calypso Jubbly Ice Lollies, all flavours are fine (not in the freezer, you have to find these on the shelves near the ice cream cones and then freeze at home)
- Rowntrees Sour Pastille Lollies – May contain nuts
In the meantime, once again well done Tesco‘s for making the only ice lollies we can buy – I do hope they are nice!
