I’m not the only one who thought this – friends who tried it picked up on the same thing. I couldn’t pin down what wasn’t quite right – it seemed to be a subtle issue with both taste and texture. It wasn’t terrible by any means – it’s actually pretty close to rich dairy ice cream – but there’s something about it that I didn’t love. I’ll cut to the chase – there was something about the ice cream that didn’t quite work for me. The flavors that I bought were Blueberry Pie, Vanilla N’ Cookies, and Hazelnut Chocolate Chunk – all of which sounded appealing. These days, you can buy Brave Robot ice cream for around $6 per pint (or $2 at the Grocery Outlet). Folks were surprised to see the ice cream at these prices – friends of mine (biotech enthusiasts) bought ice cream from Perfect Day when it was first released, at a cost of $60 for three pints. I bought three different flavors of Brave Robot ice cream from the Grocery Outlet for $1.99 each. Ethical rating for Brave Robot ice cream.Sustainability at Perfect Day and Brave Robot.Brave Robot ice cream – Ingredients and Nutrition Facts.Note that Brave Robot and Modern Kitchen brands are both produced by The Urgent Company, which was created by Prefect Day but now runs as an independent company.Īnyway… on to the Brave Robot ice creams that I tried. Graeter’s ice cream, made in Ohio, interesting flavors.Nick’s ice cream, low carb and keto-friendly.Smitten ice cream, which has several liquid nitrogen equipped stores around the Bay Area.

Modern Kitchen vegan cream cheese, which is not on supermarket shelves yet.

Brave Robot vegan ice cream, which I’ll get to in a moment.

Several companies are starting to use Perfect Day’s milk protein as an ingredient:

So, Perfect Day are offering a vegan version of milk (basically) that’s much closer to cow’s milk than milk made from oats, almond, coconut, etc.

The goal of Berkeley-based Perfect Day has been to replicate dairy by engineering a fungus to produce the proteins that are found in milk (casein and whey proteins, mainly). Brave Robot is the ice cream maker but the vegan milk protein is produced by another company, Perfect Day. Confused? Well, don’t be – it’ll all become clear in a moment. Brave Robot is a unique brand of ice cream in that it’s made using milk proteins that come from a fungus rather than a cow.

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