For vegans that are seeking a festive dessert to enjoy this holiday season, Veg News has shared a pie ice cream recipe that creatively uses plain soy yogurt as an animal-free base to the iced treat. The yogurt is flavored using natural ingredients a pumpkin puree.
Pumpkin spice is a beloved flavor during the fall season that is often incorporated into desserts and drinks. Many tend to contain dairy, which is why this frozen yogurt is an ideal recipe for vegans, vegetarians or lactose intolerant eaters. The ice cream base contains soy yogurt for added protein along with spices, crystallized ginger and pumpkin puree to recreate the taste of pumpkin pie filling.
The vegan dessert provides a light, healthy and animal-product free alternative to pies and other fall sweets.
What's Driving This Trend
- Vegan Desserts
- There is a growing demand for vegan alternatives to traditional desserts, offering disruptive innovation opportunities for the food industry to create more plant-based dessert options.
- Alternative Bases
- Alternative bases for ice cream, such as soy yogurt, offer a new way to create healthier and ethical frozen treats for consumers, presenting disruptive innovation opportunities for the dairy industry.
- Natural Ingredients
- Focus on using natural ingredients in dessert recipes allows for healthier and cleaner options that align with consumer preferences for clean label products, providing disruptive innovation opportunities for the ingredient industry.
Who This Affects Most
- Food Industry
- The food industry can capitalize on the growing demand for vegan and dairy-free desserts by offering more plant-based options that cater to the preferences of these consumers.
- Dairy Industry
- Alternative bases for ice cream, such as soy yogurt, offer disruptive innovation opportunities for the dairy industry to create healthier and more ethical frozen treats for lactose intolerant and vegan consumers.
- Ingredient Industry
- Natural ingredients are being prioritized in dessert recipes, presenting disruptive innovation opportunities for the ingredient industry to offer healthier and cleaner alternatives that better align with consumer preferences for clean label products.
