Pick up almost any pint at the grocery store and read the ingredients. Alongside cream and sugar you’ll usually find guar gum, carrageenan, cellulose gum, mono- and diglycerides, “natural flavors,” and artificial colors. None of those belong in ice cream — they’re there to let manufacturers whip in more air, survive weeks of warehouse storage, and imitate the texture that real cream produces on its own.
Real ice cream doesn’t need any of it. Made the traditional way, it needs exactly what it needed a hundred years ago: cream, milk, sweetener, eggs or gelatin, and real flavor ingredients. That’s it.
Here’s the complete ingredient philosophy behind every pint we make on our farm:
What you will never find: gums, carrageenan, emulsifiers, stabilizers, artificial flavors, artificial colors, or preservatives. If you can’t picture the ingredient in a farm kitchen, it isn’t in our ice cream.
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Here’s something most people don’t know: commercial ice cream is whipped with up to 50% air (the industry calls it “overrun”), and those gums and emulsifiers are what hold all that air in. Skip the additives and you can’t inflate the pint — which is why our pints weigh noticeably more than store-bought. You’re getting roughly 25% more actual ice cream per pint, not frozen foam.
“I bought multiple flavors and each one was delicious. Creamy and very flavorful. The A2A2 milk is gentle on your stomach — after eating I did not experience any discomfort. Highly recommend.”
— Jenny Shvartser“Hands down the best ice cream we’ve ever had. You can taste that it’s real, and it arrived perfectly frozen.”
— Jan Hurst“Shipping was fast and everything was still solid. My whole family is obsessed. So glad we found you.”
— Karen M.Whether you buy from us or anyone else, here’s the quick test:
Every one of our 10 flavors is made in small batches on our family farm in Morrisville, New York — with the shortest ingredient lists you’ll find anywhere, shipped frozen to your door.
Pick from 10 flavors of A2A2 organic grass-fed ice cream, shipped frozen.
Common ones include guar gum, carrageenan, cellulose gum, xanthan gum, mono- and diglycerides, polysorbate 80, artificial flavors, and artificial colors. They stabilize air, extend shelf life, and imitate the texture that real cream provides naturally.
Gelatin is the traditional thickener ice cream makers relied on before industrial gums existed — a real food ingredient with one job: a smooth, scoopable texture. We use only non-GMO beef gelatin and list it plainly on every label.
Because it isn’t inflated. Without gums and emulsifiers holding extra air in suspension, the pint contains more actual ice cream — up to 25% more by weight than heavily aerated commercial brands.
Noticeably. Flavors come through clean and true because there’s nothing masking them — our vanilla tastes like real vanilla extract and grass-fed cream, because that’s what it is.
Right here — we publish the full ingredient list for every flavor, and every pint ships frozen from our farm to your door. Browse all 10 flavors or read about our certified organic ingredients.
Related reading: Certified Organic Ingredients · What Is Vat Pasteurization? · How We Ship Ice Cream Frozen
10 flavors of A2A2 organic grass-fed ice cream, shipped frozen to your door.
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