Food for thought

This was partially my lunch but I’ll consider it a snack. This ice cream is Chocolatey Chip Cookie Dough from the company Breyers. Breyers creamery style products are located in Toronto Canada, so transportation and distribution is a major concern in this case. Also the packaging of the ice cream container did not seem to be overly or excessively wrapped. There was just a plastic wrap on the top of the lid so the lid and the container would not separate. I am leaning towards the idea that the overall packaging does not consume the major amount of fossil fuels required in its production.

Main ingredients: modified milk ingredients, water, sugar, glucose, hydrogenate cocunut oil, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, guargum, and chocolatey chip cookie dough.

I am definitely concerned about the oil that goes into the production and distribution of the product. The travel the ice cream actually takes to get into stores seems to be an issue. The production of the ice cream and the process that goes into mixing all the ingredients together seems to take a lot of energy. Also the storing and refrigerating of the contents would require a lot of energy to maintain the consistency ice cream needs. The overall energy ice cream requires as well as the energy necessary to keep the ice cream at a suitable state is extremely high.