Bryers New ice creams not ice cream

YES! I am having reactions (I have not consumed Bryers ice cream in awhile so I am noticing the new changes.....UGH ) Well be researching homemade ice cram makers in the near future...although I do not eat ice cream often hubby loves it and its 100 degrees outside ;) 

• Breyers was bought by Unilever. Everything has changed.
• Natural Flavors can mean anything and can be changed at any time and the company does not have to disclose what the natural ingredient is. 
• Legally natural ingredient can be a natural substance that can be manipulated in the lab. These "franken" foods can cause major disturbances in people with sensitivities.

http://www.wptv.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/breyers-ice-cream-changing-ingredients-on-some-flavors

When you think supermarket ice cream, many of us think Breyers for wholesome ingredients.

It has been making "all natural" ice cream -- with just five or six ingredients -- for generations.

But take a close look some new Breyers cartons. Some now have an ingredient list that's grown to a more than a dozen ingredients including mono and diglicerides, guar gum, carrageenen, and corn syrup.

Breyers says the change makes it have a smoother texture and says it contains less fat. The company also says the new formulation scores very well in taste tests.

Doesn't That Stink?

But from the "doesn't that stink" file, news that Breyers reformulation doesn't meet FDA standards for ice cream, according to the consumer website Mouseprint.org.Under federal law, to be called “ice cream”, a product must meet a certain standard of identity, which in this case requires that there be at least 10% milk fat in the product. That generally would come from the cream in the product. If the product does not meet the federal “recipe” for ice cream, it has to be called something else. In this case, they are calling it frozen dairy dessert which has no federal definition (other than it does not meet the standards to be called ice cream.)

Mouseprint reports that Breyers now has to call its new recipe " frozen dairy dessert" instead. 

WWW.truthinlabeling.org  (the label has changed even on the natural brands)

Recently, Good Humor-Breyers, producer of Breyers ice creams, eliminated "vanilla" from their list of ingredients and replaced it with "natural flavors."

We suspect that Good Humor-Breyers replaced "vanilla" with "vanillin" in order to save a little money, but even if they are now using "vanillin," an apparently safe ingredient for MSG-sensitive people, the term "natural flavor" is a suspect term for MSG-sensitive people and, in more cases than not includes some processed free glutamic acid (MSG). The content of "natural flavor" can change at any time without notice since congress has declared flavors and flavorings to be proprietary, and do not require disclosure by food companies.

One webpage said they knew something had changed when the cat would not even lick the empty bowl.  Maybe our animals should all become taste testers!