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As someone who is lactose intolerant and health-conscious, ice cream isn't the friendliest food for me. When Halo Top first came onto the market, I remember trying it and thinking "this isn't ice cream - it's more like icy milk!" When I heard they reformulated their product, I decided to give it another try. At only 330 calories for a full pint, fewer calories and much less fat per serving compared to leading ice creams, the nutrition facts seem too good to be true: but how does it taste? Well, I can say that the new formulation did wonders for the brand: the ice cream is almost creamy enough to fool me into thinking it's real ice cream, with a soft, smooth texture (despite being made with skim milk), and I don't get an aftertaste of artificial sweetener, perhaps because they used erythritol, which is known for a sort of "cooling sensation", but you're already eating an icy product anyways, so that doesn't really matter. As for the "Chocolate Almond Crunch" flavor, I can really taste a strong cocoa flavor coming through (but it's not rich like a Ghirardelli chocolate would be, obviously), and the addition of small chocolate chips and almond pieces is really nice, adding a great textural contrast! Also, at a third of the calories of normal ice cream, I'm not complaining! I can generally find this for $5-7 at local grocery store chains (think Safeway, Kroger, etc.), and sometimes cheaper on sale, but it's still fairly expensive per pint. What's also interesting is that there's 18g of fiber in each pint, and "prebiotic fiber" is one of the main ingredients in the product - if you have a sensitive stomach, you should be aware of the added fiber and potentially bloat-causing artificial sweetener (16g of sugar alcohol per pint), but other than that, this is a great, lower-calorie option that I'm willing to occasionally splurge upon!
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