Walmart Must Tell Us Why Their Ice Cream Sandwiches Dont MeltHeather Callaghan Then, Dan Collins of KIKN 100.5 in Sioux Falls also put the sandwiches to the test: Some consumers are freaking out, while others are trying to quell the alarmism. Is there a cause to be worried about this everlasting gobstopping creation? And, are people focusing on the wrong argument? In the original storys experiment, Haagen Dazs melted quickly (it only has 5 ingredients), followed by Klondike sandwiches at a much slower rate but it still melted. News anchor John Maltese believes that Walmart brand is safe according the FDA and repeatedly tells viewers not to waste their money on premium brands. Ingredients: What were looking at are a bunch of fillers, stabilizers, emulsifiers and thickeners.Cellulose Gum, for instance, is made from wood pulp. This post suggest it absorbs 20 times its weight. Emulsifiers help with oil/water dispersal. Furthermore, ice cream can be filled with a lot of air. There are a few more industry shortcuts at the bottom of this article. Walmart had this response: Well, not exactly higher fat content will melt faster. Higher water content like in non-fat items will melt slower. (Post-Gazette) But I digress I need to emphasize this were not wondering about slower rates, but no melting rate. The following bulleted websites offer explanations about Walmarts ice cream and why we people should relax and move on nothing to see here. They basically say the same things about fat content, stabilizers, gums, emulsifiers, corn syrups and thickeners. A lot of articles on the subject reference the Post-Gazette article even though it goes counter to Walmarts claims and never talks about ice cream that forgets to eventually melt. All the explanations sound like good answers to quell public concern, but do you see a pattern? No one can answer as to why this particular product doesnt melt ever.There is talk of different melting rates, but that doesnt explain the total lack of melting. Stabilizers maintain shape and texture but what maintains frozen-ness on hot summer days? Ice cream made for convenience includes alot of chemistry still nothing about inability to completely melt. All those additives amount to something that doesnt resemble actual ice cream. The arguments about food ingredients sidestep the point that this particular brand will not melt in extreme heat. Yes, we know about the chemistry that helps it to keep its shape. We know about slower melting rates. But no one has truly explained why the ice cream wont eventually melt. The ice part never melted. Also, its not true that ice cream sandwiches dont melt. They do, even with similar thickeners, emulsifiers, stabilizers and fillers. Look at Klondikes ingredients melted slower, but eventually did melt similar ingredients: Are there other unlisted ingredients that Walmarts brand is not disclosing? Thanks to this federal regulation CFR Title 21, Sec. 101.100 we dont know. It exempts a lot food labeling requirements, falling back on industry standard. WPCOs John Dont Waste Your MoneyMaltese adds: Oh Well, when you put it that way Thats not a reason for ice cream to never melt. Maybe the question should be do you really want to eat any of the listed ingredients? Bottom line: why waste your money on that. Just because were not all food chemists doesnt mean Christie Watson or you or I dont have a reason to question why a food product wont break down like its non-altered counterpart. It was perfectly rational for her to think, What am I feeding my children? Just because some of the ingredients are nature-derived does not make them all natural. Just because ingredients are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the FDA does not mean theyve been proven not to harm. Raising questions does not equal alarmism, but rather, it equals using your thinking faculties. You have every right to wonder and spend your money on which ice cream you prefer. Not that anyone needed my opinion to tell them that but they also dont need people to sayfuhgeddaboudit and feed your kids the cheap stuff. If actual ice cream is what you want then by all means Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work atNaturalBlaze.com and selfnewsPost.com. Like at Facebook. Recent posts byHeather Callaghan: 