Reply To: halo top.

[Ryann Kipping, MPH, RDN, LDN]

Honestly, you’d be better off indulging in a small serving of the real thing. I just noticed one of their new flavors contains the active form of vitamin A (super weird, not sure why they would do this). They advertise it as “you can eat the whole pint” but I wouldn’t recommend this even though it is “lower in calories” than real ice cream. At the end of the day, you don’t eat ice cream because you feel it is going to provide nutrients, you eat it as a treat, to boost your mood, etc. So, to sum it up, eating the real thing is 100% okay and maybe a better option in a small serving, halo top isn’t unsafe per se but they do contain ingredients we have limited data on during pregnancy, i.e. sugar alcohols, carob gum, and more, and check to make sure the halo top doesn’t have vitamin A!