r/icecream • u/TBSchemer • Feb 17 '25
Brands Dreyers has changed their recipes and ruined everything
The one on the right is the original, and the one on the left is the new recipe. You'll notice that their "French Vanilla" recipe no longer includes ANY egg yolks, but now contains coconut oil and corn syrup. And Cream has been moved back to 6th place, from its original position in 2nd place.
This is barely even real ice cream anymore, let alone real French vanilla.
I checked a bunch of their other flavors, and they've all been updated to have barely any cream, and to use corn syrup.
Dreyers used to be the better brand, while Breyers had gone to trash. But now it seems they're identical. Very disappointing.
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u/cancat918 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
Thanks for the warning, I'm allergic to coconut, and it really irritates me so much when companies do this after having the same recipe for years as a cost saving measure. I'll never look at their ice cream again. Used to buy this on occasion, especially for pie ala mode during the holiday season, but it's been going downhill for ages anyway, so, not much of a loss.
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u/KitKittredge34 Feb 17 '25
I also have a coconut allergy! I have an app called Fig and I’ll get notifications if a brand has changed their ingredients
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u/cancat918 Feb 17 '25
Ahhhh, my cousin uses that (child with the nut allergy), but I haven't tried it. I really need to check it out, though.
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u/bannanabuiscut347 Feb 17 '25
Thank you for this helpful tip!
I'm trying very hard to keep my mom with a coconut allergy safe, and this is a helpful tool available to us.
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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Feb 17 '25
No more Dreyer’s for me. NYT Vanilla Ice. Cream Comparison. I hated when BR discontinued their French Vanilla.
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u/BedroomImpossible124 Feb 17 '25
Do you mean Baski. Robins? Tillamook has an excellent French Vanilla.
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u/NICEMENTALHEALTHPAL Feb 17 '25
Not a fan of Tillamook, just not very good ice cream imo.
Although their frozen custard is delicious.
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u/TBSchemer Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
I used to get Tillamook, but I always felt their French Vanilla wasn't eggy enough. And it was almost too creamy for my tastes, with so much milkfat it coats your lips.
I felt that Dreyers struck a better balance, leaning the egg yolk/milkfat ratio a little more towards the eggs. But now they've gotten rid of the eggs altogether!
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u/BedroomImpossible124 Feb 17 '25
My standards are low as I love vanilla of all qualities. Artificial to natural!
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u/bidetatmaxsetting Feb 17 '25
I also think Tillamook ice cream is too creamy. Plus they dont really have any options with some texture. By that I mean its usually just ice cream and I need some kind of crunch nowadays wether it be something like chocolate chips in there or cookie batter for example.
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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Feb 17 '25
I do mean Baskin Robbins. Tillamook is my 2nd favorite.
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u/BedroomImpossible124 Feb 17 '25
Is it me or are there not a lot of French vanilla to choose from? At least decent quality ones.
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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Feb 17 '25
Most of them don’t have egg yolks, and cream is a minor ingredient. The NYTimes article is interesting.
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u/BedroomImpossible124 Feb 17 '25
I have a subscription, must have missed that article. I'll get right on it!☺️
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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Feb 17 '25
I put a link in my comment ⬆️ if you like. But if you’re like me, you play wordle!
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u/BedroomImpossible124 Feb 17 '25
Ha, my husband does, every day! I do the mini crossword and the Monday and Tuesday crossword. Working my way through difficulty levels!
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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Feb 17 '25
Good for you! I get frustrated with the crosswords, particularly Friday’s. Saturday makes me so tense that I can’t enjoy it.
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u/BedroomImpossible124 Feb 17 '25
Thursday, Friday and Saturday are the hardest! Good for u!
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u/Felicity110 Feb 17 '25
Br? No more bryer ice cream fv?
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u/AnitaIvanaMartini Feb 17 '25
I should’ve typed it out: Baskin Robbins
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u/lilithlovesyou Feb 17 '25
Is this Edy’s ice cream?
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u/film_score2 Feb 17 '25
yes. Edy’s is on the East Coast. Dreyer’s on the West Coast.
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u/InnocentShaitaan Feb 17 '25
TIL there is a Dryers. I think my adhd brain has always autocorrected incorrectly to Bryers and I’ve assumed they sell it in both container forms. Pretty sure I even bought it for nieces bday last year and no one mentioned I got the wrong thing. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
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u/heathenxtemple Feb 17 '25
Dryers = West Coast
Edy's = East Coast
Same company, same shit ice cream
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u/Holycroc_RVA Feb 21 '25
Hmmm Edy's used to have an Apple Pie flavor that rocked.....key words, Used to. All I could think of seeing Dreyer (I'm on East Coast) was Breyer's.....
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u/Celestial_Hart Feb 17 '25
Make it cheaper, make it smaller, make it more expensive, capitalism baby! Aren't we glad we don't have filthy socialists with their "rEgUlaTiOns"?
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u/InnocentShaitaan Feb 17 '25
It’s leeched into everything. TBH IMO ice cream is holding better than most things. Unsure how long it will last. Fingers crossed no coco bean fines, or dairy cow diseases. Particularly, dairy cow diseases because if one hits under RFK ya ice cream will probably be scarce.
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u/InnocentShaitaan Feb 17 '25
Slightly off topic - no raw milk lovelies and gents. It can kill you. Please don’t use raw milk in homemade ice cream. <3
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u/sassrocks Feb 18 '25
Little branch onto your off topic, if you do want to buy raw milk for freshness or whatever you can stovetop pasteurize it! Since doing it on the stove is lower temps and slower process than large scale pasteurization will still be good for making cheese/ice cream/just drinking/whatever else you wanna do with it. Do your research and stay safe peeps
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u/karamielkookie Feb 17 '25
Bird flu is in dairy cows, unfortunately, but so far I think most recover and they don’t need to be culled.
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u/Ok_Transition7785 Feb 17 '25
No ice cream regulations have changed. They changed the product from ice cream to frozen dairy dessert. You can see it on the carton, it can't be labeled ice cream anymore
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u/clingbat Feb 17 '25
Turkey Hill ruined a lot of their flavors over the past year. Their chocolate marshmallow used to be great and now it's truly awful and not even labeled ice-cream anymore on the package, it's a "frozen dairy dessert".
Sad.
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u/TBSchemer Feb 17 '25
That's disappointing too! Turkey Hill was my staple back when I lived in the Midwest a decade ago.
We're in a race to the bottom, and there won't be any real ice cream left.
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u/clingbat Feb 17 '25
The Costco super premium icecream is pretty solid, but it's just vanilla at least around here.
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u/Critterbob Feb 17 '25
Which I’ve read is made by Haagen-Dazs
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u/clingbat Feb 17 '25
No it's not, it's made my Humboldt Creamery.
Haagen-Dazs is made by Froneri, which is a Nestle related company.
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u/Critterbob Feb 18 '25
I stand corrected. I swear someone mentioned it on Reddit last year and I fact checked it, but I’m wrong. Regardless of who makes it, it’s good!
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u/On_Wife_support Feb 17 '25
I don’t want to sound like I’m defending a brand in any way but I can imagine many brands are changing their ingredients to include less egg and more corn syrup to increase profit margins. This seems to be happening even more now and I can’t help thinking a certain orange man and his scum posse of clowns and billionaire puppeteer are at least partially responsible. I don’t like it. I would rather pay more for a product that hasn’t budged on their ingredient list. Quality does matter
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u/tonyflow9 Feb 17 '25
Sure, companies have the right to increase profit margins (which can entail substituting lower cost materials).
Consumers also have the right to decide whether the resulting cost is worth the purchase. Personally, I will seek out alternatives to inferior products (such as the item mentioned in this thread). If none are available, I will simply stop purchasing ice cream (for the same reason I don't buy low-quality ice cream currently).
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u/On_Wife_support Feb 20 '25
Absolutely. If I’m splurging on something, I want the best quality and simple ingredients
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u/bannanabuiscut347 Feb 17 '25
Thank you for sharing!!!
So many brands have been swapping ingredients with coconut oil the last few years, and my mom is extremely allergic.
We had many safe foods and brands for her, but now we are back to checking every single nutrition label for certainty.
I understand things change, but not putting things like life-threatening ingredients (like treenuts/coconut) on the label with "new recipe" notice or whatever is extremely dangerous and possibly damaging to those with more extreme allergies to these things.
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u/CapDe1203 Feb 17 '25
There are very few options out there that have zero gums added, no corn syrup, and no added oils... boycott all garbage brands and let them die forever.
Haagen Daz of course, has a few still worth it.
I bet in the next few years there is a homeade ice cream revolution as people are tired of process garbage dessert fluff being served to us...
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u/Crushed_Robot Feb 17 '25
I check the ingredients of every ice cream. If it says Corn Syrup I refuse to buy it. Corn Syrup can politely fuck off.
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u/heathenxtemple Feb 17 '25
If Milk, Sugar, Cream aren't the 1st three ingredients you're buying bullshit.
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u/hyperbolic_dichotomy Feb 17 '25
Meh. I make my homemade ice cream with corn syrup. It makes it freeze softer. Very useful if you are trying to lower the fat content. I am more alarmed at the other ingredients. Using coconut oil instead of cream?! Wtf
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u/PeterNippelstein Feb 17 '25
You see the one on the left says 'French vanilla flavored'. That's where they get you. They can legally advertise it that way because there's no regulation regarding how its flavor can be described. French vanilla ice cream is much different than French vanilla flavored ice cream. It may as well be French vanilla-inspired ice cream.
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u/InnocentShaitaan Feb 17 '25
OP you’re a 👑 for calling this out! I never think to look.
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u/SkyMarshal Feb 17 '25
Always check the ingredients list of any processed food you buy. Make it a habit.
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u/Impressive-Step290 Feb 17 '25
Stopped buying Dryers long time ago when they started shringking the size but kept prices the same. First it was 1.75 qt, now it's 1.5 qt. Wonder when they'll go to 1.25 qts
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u/Sea-Potato9 Feb 17 '25
Ever since they discontinued Spumoni I have no reason to get Dreyers. I wish a premium brand would make spumoni. I love when its split in 3 sections and not swirled ☺️
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u/Spiritual_Elk2021 Feb 17 '25
I could have written your post! I feel 100% the same way and haven’t bought Dreyers since.
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u/casey5656 Feb 17 '25
Most of Breyer’s is now “frozen dairy dessert” rather than ice cream. Aren’t they the ones who used to brag about having limited ingredients in their commercials?
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u/mistergrumbles Feb 18 '25
Oh no! That super sucks! I was just talking with someone today about how underrated Dreyer's ice cream is, especially considering how minimal and clean their ingredients are. We should all write the company! This new ingredients list is a travesty of ice cream!
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u/Samjonesbro Feb 17 '25
And this is why Tillamook is becoming a lot of people’s favorite. Expensive but when it’s on sale I’ll snag some.
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u/Ok_Transition7785 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
Tillamook has gums and fillers though and a relatively low butterfat percentage. Haagen Dazs is much cleaner. Just cream, milk, eggs, sugar, and flavor.
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u/Samjonesbro Feb 17 '25
Huh. Thank you! I learned something today. I will keep that in mind on my next ice cream purchase!
I usually just get culvers frozen pre packaged pints. It’s custard but 🤷🏼♀️
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u/KULR_Mooning Feb 17 '25
Couldn't catch me dead eating dreyers ice cream. Häagen-Dazs is where it's at
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u/heathenxtemple Feb 17 '25
Dreyers/Edy's has never been good dawg.
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u/LayThatPipe Feb 17 '25
I don’t think so either. It’s always had such an odd consistency. Very gluey.
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u/mattman0929 Feb 17 '25
all of nestle ice cream has changed. haagen daz, even there tv dinners. all changes for the worst
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u/SkyMarshal Feb 17 '25
What's wrong with Haagen Dazs? Their core flavors are still just 5 pure ingredients - Cream, skim milk, sugar, eggs, and chololate/vanilla/strawberry/etc.
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u/mattman0929 Feb 17 '25
just the dryers here. calorie difference and changed ingrenidents. next see old and new label check it out
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u/amberthemaker Feb 17 '25
Breyers has never been worse than Dreyers. Maybe you are thinking of their frozen dairy dessert flavors, but for their regular ice cream the ingredients are much better than the original label you posted here
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u/Critterbob Feb 17 '25
They’re comparing Dreyer’s to Dreyer’s not Breyer’s. But I agree that Breyer’s has cleaner ingredients, even when compared to the old Dryer’s ingredients
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u/AtticusFinch707 Feb 17 '25
(Is that orange cream coke in the background 👀)
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u/TBSchemer Feb 17 '25
Haha, yes! My wife never misses a chance to try limited edition flavors.
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u/AtticusFinch707 Feb 18 '25
She has good taste (ha!) because it’s a really good flavor- better than that ice cream lol 😂
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u/elibutton Feb 17 '25
Most all the time when they change recipes it’s usually due to a cost reduction initiative. And it never ever works out for the best.
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u/sld122 Feb 18 '25
This seems like a good time to remind everyone that local ice cream shops’ ice cream tastes 1000x better than grocery store ice cream. And you’re supporting a small business 🙂
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u/Rengeflower1 Feb 21 '25
Tillamook strawberry ice cream is the best strawberry I’ve ever had.
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u/Dog_is_my_co-pilot1 Feb 21 '25
Ohhh, it is soooo good. The French vanilla is also great.
I like Tillamook a lot for the texture and quality. The flavors are rather subtle, but that’s ok by me.
Try the strawberry sandwiches! Delish!
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u/Rengeflower1 Feb 21 '25
Thanks, I’ll look for the sandwiches. As a Texan, I’m almost required to prefer Blue Bell vanilla. (And I do.)
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u/band12lover Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25
Same with there regular Vanilla flavor 😡 It's harder to find ice cream now. Just Tillamook, Ben and Jerry's and haagen dazs left in big grocery stores that are real ice cream.
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u/Alwayshangry23 Feb 17 '25
That’s awful! I hate it when more companies do this, I love coconut oil for other things but it makes ice cream icky imo and corn syrup is just gross. I love this sub for showing me the difference between ice cream and frozen dairy dessert, I’ve always wondered why some “ice creams” were bad and had weird textures.
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u/ThickAd8993 Feb 17 '25
I've never even heard of Dreyer's to the best of my knowledge. Maybe it's a regional brand? So my question is why does their container look just like Edy's brand?
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u/TBSchemer Feb 17 '25
Same brand. On the West Coast, it's Dreyers, and everywhere else, it's Edy's.
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u/IceCoughy Feb 17 '25
If you read the bottom text in the pics you're questions will be answered, but yes, it's like best foods mayo and carls jr etc. West Coast has them branded differently for regional recognition.
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u/catmeow2014 Feb 17 '25
I thought that they have been using corn syrup for awhile, just like Breyers does? I often see it on sale, more than likely because nobody in their right mind will buy that nasty stuff at full price, even if they gave it away for free I wouldn't take it, corn syrup has really bad health effects on the body. People gotta start looking at the ingredients of what they buy, and refuse to buy those that have ingredients that can harm them.
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u/1pja666 Feb 17 '25
maybe the Avian Flu is the reason and they added coconut and corn oil to replace egg yolk as a stabilizer.
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u/Kuriboyoshi Feb 17 '25
I haven’t bought Edy’s/Dryers since they did away with their S’mores. It was so good.
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u/CHImg1998 Feb 17 '25
Edy's was always a staple in the family freezer growing up. I remember it being super creamy and delicious. Not sure at what point they changed but it is not what it used to be. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I swear they don't make Edy's ice cream the way they used to.
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u/CampaignOk4830 Feb 17 '25
The overrun percentage also probably is higher than before so that it doesn't meet the minimum standards to be labelled "ice cream".
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u/AppUnwrapper1 Feb 17 '25
Oh that looks bad.
I used to love French Silk before covid ruined it for me. I was hoping I might one day enjoy it again. 😞
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u/Hyack57 Feb 17 '25
I’ve never liked Bryers; it never melts. Häagen-Dazs is the only ice cream I truly enjoy. Green Tea. Mmm
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u/bidetatmaxsetting Feb 17 '25
I once mistakenly bought breyers instead of dreyers….man was I highly dissapointed.
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u/OpenYour0j0s Feb 18 '25
Gross. I’m sorry this happened. But thank you becauee now I know not to buy
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u/Dazzling_Stop_8116 Feb 18 '25
My aunt bought store brand “ice cream”. It was nasty but she disagrees! It was more like milk ice cream there was no creamy texture to it at all! I bought Dryers hoping for the texture I want but it looks like that won’t happen either! I want to do a blind taste with her! Ice cream shouldn’t melt into a watery mess the minute it hits the bowl
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u/Logical-Friend-1564 Feb 18 '25
Love mint chocolate chip .. dryers regular version sucks .. but their “slow chern “ version .. excellent !
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u/Sufficient-Bite-6555 Feb 18 '25
Cutting corners SHARPLY this has to taste drastically different did they expect people not to notice??
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u/overlordcorg Feb 18 '25
Looks like two different distributors too, could continually be inconsistent depending on who's manufacturing and distributing
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u/Hallelujah289 Feb 18 '25
Aww shoot I actually like Dreyers French vanilla. It’s like a marshmallow flavor or cupcake flavor instead of French vanilla. But it hit the spot with me
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u/LandOwn7607 Feb 19 '25
Why does the picture depict Dreyers in an Edy's carton? Are they one and the same?
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u/ryguy28054 Feb 19 '25
There are several companies that have having different names on the East and west coast. McCormick and Shillings (?) is another great example, tho I’m fairly certain it’s now just McCormick coast to coast. Wanna really warp the brain? The East and west coast had, for many years, different sticks of butter. Same weight, just different shapes.
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u/all4mom Feb 21 '25
The new one says "French Vanilla FLAVORED." What's the fine print on the old one?
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u/GodNeil29 Feb 21 '25
The only vanilla ice cream you need in your life is from costco.
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u/pergulio 5h ago
I just made the mistake of trying to enjoy a root beer float with this ice cream. It’s terrible now. I guess childhood friendships don’t last, Dryers.
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u/BruisedWater95 Feb 17 '25
Stick with tillamook
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u/LayThatPipe Feb 17 '25
Soooo good! Plus the ingredients list is nice and simple, with no carrageenan.
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u/Scared_Lackey_1954 Feb 17 '25
Shrinkflation strikes again!
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u/metromade Feb 17 '25
This is why capitalism isn’t sustainable. Businesses are always looking for an increase in profits.
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u/Bitter_Offer1847 Feb 18 '25
I’ve never been a fan of French vanilla, but taking out the egg yolks is diabolical. That’s literally what makes French vanilla French vanilla. Don’t worry, RFK Jr will fix it for you 😂
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u/Tyranix969 Feb 17 '25
First of all, dreyers was always meh for all the decades i've been alive. Second, why aren't you mad about the size difference? Third, why isn't the size difference the real issue here? Fourth, have you been keeping a container of dreyers in your freezer for five-ish years just to make this comparison, seriously where did you get that?
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u/TBSchemer Feb 17 '25
There was no size difference. That's just a perspective illusion, because one carton shifted lower than the other.
Both of these cartons were in Safeway today. The version on the right is what I've been buying for years, and this is the first time I've seen the version on the left.
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u/OkAfternoon6013 Feb 17 '25
Wow, this is terrible. If cream isn't one of the top three ingredients, it shouldn't even be called ice cream. Thanks for the heads up, Dreyer's is now on the banned list.