This weekend my family picked up Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls when grocery shopping. The product image on the box and the description of “mint chip ice cream between chocolate wafers” is enticing, but do Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls taste as good as they look?
Ingredients and Nutritional Value
Ingredients in Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls
-Chocolate cookies consisting of organic unbleached wheat flour, sugar, cocoa processed with alkali and expeller pressed canola oil
-Natural flavor
-Salt
-Sodium bicarbonate (leavening)
-Unsweetened chocolate
-Soy lecithin (emulsifier)
-Sugar
-Corn sweetener
-Ice cream (milk, cream, sugar, corn sweetener, condensed milk, guar gum, locust bean gum, lecithin, natural mint flavor)
-Carrageenan
-Chocolate chips (coconut oil, sugar, cocoa [processed with alkali], chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, calcium carbonate, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, soy licithin, whey, vanilla)
Nutritional Facts of Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls:
Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls have 120 calories per serving. A serving size is two ice cream sandwiches. There are 50 calories from fat in each serving.
One serving of Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls contains 6 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of which are saturated fat. There are no trans fats in Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls.
Cholesterol in one serving of the ice cream sandwiches is 10 mg.
Sodium count in one serving is 65mg.
Total carbohydrates in one serving of Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls are 18 grams. Of those, dietary fiver is 1 gram per serving and sugars are 9 grams per serving.
Protein in one serving of Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls equals 2 grams.
Preparation
Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls require no preparation before serving.
Price and Packaging
Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls cost $3.50 per package. There are 12 small ice cream sandwiches in a package, weighing 1.25 fluid ounces each (37 mL).
The packaging of Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls is attractive. Several small ice cream sandwiches are shown on a green plate against a light green background.
Recommendation
My recommendation regarding Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls is to buy some today! They are delicious. The chocolate cookies leave a bit of residue on your fingers, but other than that there is no mess. The size of Trader Joe’s 12 Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls ice cream sandwiches is ideal for an individual who occasionally craves something sweet, but does not want the guilt attached with a large and mega-calorie dessert.
