Glastry Farm Ice Cream expands healthy sorbets
Award-winning Glastry Farm Ice Cream is expanding its successful range of luxury sorbets in line with a growth in market demand from consumers for healthy desserts.
The company, which is based on a pedigree dairy farm in rural county Down, near Kircubbin village overlooking Strangford Lough, has added two additional flavours, Acai Berry and Mango and Passionfruit, to its existing and its existing Pear and Raspberry Ruffle sorbets.
Will Taylor, a respected and longstanding dairy farmer and Glastry Ice Cream’s managing director, explains: “Our decision to develop the new sorbets follow extensive market research by industry leader Mintel into consumer buying priorities showing strong growth in demand for desserts perceived to be healthy.
“We’ve developed out business over the years in line with market research. As a result, all our luxury and creamy sorbets are lower in fat and high in fibre. They also have the highest fruit content within the sector in the UK and Ireland and produced using the latest technology. The existing range has become a market leader and extremely popular in particular with leading chefs,” adds Will.
The sorbets have also been endorsed by expert food industry judges resulting in two gold medals in the Irish Food Awards 2016-2017 and gold Stars in the Great Taste Awards 2019-2020, providing a tremendous independent assessment of the Glastry Farm range.
Will continues: “We now add this to range low sugar content and a number of our sorbets will contain enhanced levels of anti-oxidants and Omega 3 for a consumer who is increasingly aware of their health status. The sorbets, furthermore, are suitable for vegans.”
The sorbets also boast a rich creamy texture and are, therefore, difficult to distinguish from ice cream in terms of mouthfeel.
Acai Berry Sorbet issweet and tangy Acai and utilises Glastry’s new sugar alternative that creates a low fat/sugar and high fibre product.
“Acai berry belongs to the superfood class, providing the sorbet with increased antioxidants and nutrients, providing the consumer with added health benefits. It has a beautiful purple colouring, which is as vibrant as its taste! It has recently won gold in the Irish Food Awards 2021. This vegan sorbet is perfect for a healthier desert option,” Will explains. “Our newly developed Mango and Passionfruit Sorbet is one to get the taste buds tingling.
“Bursting with sweet fresh mango flavouring combined with sharp passionfruit, this refreshing sorbet gives you a tasty tropical twist on a classic sorbet.
“Mango is a superfood, therefore providing the sorbet with high levels of antioxidants and nutrients. It is also low in fat and sugar and high in fibre. This amazing vegan sorbet is perfect to cleanse the palette,” he adds.
Bursting with sweet raspberry flavour of fresh fruit, whilst carrying a delicate pink colouring the raspberry ruffle, he continues, is “just like being in a field of fresh raspberries on a warm summers day”.
“This amazing product is low in sugar and fat, high in fibre and rich in antioxidants, perfect for a healthier desert option.
{Pear Sorbet is a deliciously juicy, refreshing and sweet sorbet that has proven to be very popular for vegan customers. The product is low in sugar and fat and high in fibre. This delicious vegan sorbet is perfect for a healthier desert option,” adds Will.
The vegan sorbets were initially developed with CAFRE in Cookstown, county Tyrone using an Invest NI innovation voucher.
