Vanilla ice cream
Waitrose Seriously Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream
500ml, £4, waitrose.com
They may have used mashed up vanilla pods, not seeds. The overriding taste is of fresh milk and cream.
★★★★
Marks & Spencer Dessert Menu Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream
500ml, £4.50, marksandspencer.com
A strong buttery, creamy aftertaste of clotted cream… an old-fashioned flavour.
★★★
Asda Chosen by You Really Creamy Vanilla Ice Cream
900ml, £2, asda.com
Like ice cream from my childhood. It has the generic taste of something that’s been in a freezer too long.
★
Ocado Carte D’Or Vanilla Ice Cream Dessert
900ml, £3.49, ocado.com
So disgusting... it’s like it’s made of melted chewy sweets. A slippery whipped frozen oil kind of texture.
No stars
Chocolate ice cream
Waitrose Seriously Creamy Santa Domingo Chocolate Ice Cream
500ml, £4, waitrose.com
Very creamy. It’s got different notes like a fruity chocolate and a twang. I’m not sure about the slippery smooth texture.
★★★★
Tesco Finest Chocolate Ice Cream
500ml, £3, tesco.com
Light, foamy and moussey in texture. It tastes like a Wispa bar - it’s got a milk chocolate flavour. Cheap tasting.
★★★
The Co-operative Truly Irresistible Chocolate Ice Cream
500ml, £3.69, co-operativefood.co.uk
It tastes like melted chocolate fudge cake from the supermarket. Not for me, but it’s got it going on.
★★
Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream
500ml, £3.25, sainsburys.co.uk
A dry texture. Rich – like the middle of a chocolate truffle. I don’t like its fattiness.
★★
Salted caramel ice cream
Waitrose Heston from Waitrose Salted Caramel Popcorn Ice Cream
500ml, £4.49, waitrose.com
The sweetness is balanced. The popcorn bits don’t work – they’ve gone soggy.
★★★
Ocado Jude’s Salted Caramel Ice Cream
500ml, £4.79, ocado.com
Smooth – in an artificial way. Puddingy and salty, not much depth. Not a bad effort.
★★
Tesco Finest Cornish Salted Caramel Ice Cream
500ml, £3, tesco.com
I love salt, but this is like someone has upended the packet. I think I’d feel sick after a scoop.
★★
The Co-operative Loved by Us Salted Caramel Ice Cream
500ml, £2, co-operativefood.co.uk
Looks dry and crumbly. It’s got some bits that look like earwax. I don’t know what that tastes of… death?
No stars
Cookie dough ice cream
Ocado Häagen-Dazs Cookie Dough
500ml, £4.50, ocado.com
Well-rounded vanilla smell. It tastes milky and natural. Good chocolate that melts when you eat it. Balanced with nice sandy grainy bits of cookie dough.
★★★★
Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough
500ml, £4.99, benjerry.co.uk
Quite mean on the cookie dough. A little bit boring maybe... but more to my liking - it’s fresh and milky.
★★★
Lidl Gelatelli American Style Cookie Dough Ice Cream
500ml, £1.99, lidl.co.uk
Salty buttery tasting cookie dough. Quite a sticky ice cream... not alI bad. People will like it because it’s rich.
★★★
Morrisons Cookie Dough Demolition Ice Cream
480ml, £2, morrisons.com
Marshmallow textured. The cookie dough is pallid – undelicious.
No stars
Strawberry frozen yogurt
Yoomoo Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
500ml, £3, yoomoo.com
The jelly ripples are quite appealing. It’s also balanced and quite clean tasting.
★★
Asda Good & Counted Strawberry Greek Style Frozen Yogurt
500ml, £2, asda.com
A hyper flavour – like the smell of strawberry shampoo, but it’s got a good tang going on. Not for me.
★
Ben & Jerry’s Greek Style Strawberry Shortcake Frozen Yogurt
500ml, £4.99, benjerry.co.uk
Who eats biscuits with yogurt? I can’t say it tastes of strawberries or yogurt –the flavour is muted.
No stars
Ocado Yeo Valley Organic Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
900ml, £3.50, ocado.com
Really sweet. It tastes mildly like strawberry jam... and tea bags.
No stars
Mango sorbet
The Ice Cream Union Mango Sorbet
500ml, £4.99, icecreamunion.com
It’s got a fondant texture like the middle of a Cadbury Creme Egg. It tastes of good mangoes. Too sweet for me, but I’m quite impressed.
★★★★ BEST BUY
Tesco Mango Sorbet
500ml, £2.50, tesco.com
Smells like it’s seen a mango tree. The colour is incredibly bright. Really fruity, a little tangy. It tastes almost as if it’s got orange juice in it.
★★★
Ocado Rubicon Mango Sorbet
750ml, £2.40, ocado.com
Very orange... May have mango pulp in it but tastes more of all the other stuff in there. It has tangy mango squash appeal.
★★
Marks & Spencer Mango Madness Sorbet
500ml, £3, marksandspencer.com
A muted flavour. It doesn’t taste like they’ve used as flavoursome a fruit. It’s quite boring and watery, but not awful.
★
Taste test compiled by Molly Tait-Hyland. All items are blind-tested.
