Asheville’s vegan Plant restaurant inspires Amy’s to make non-dairy frozen dessert

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Screen shot 2014-01-30 at 3.57.07 PMThis is cool. From the Amy’s press release:

Amy’s, the nation’s top-selling brand of natural and organic convenience foods now celebrating its 25th anniversary, is launching a brand new frozen food category, Amy’s Organic Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts. Amy’s has found a way to make a frozen, certified vegan dessert that has the luscious, velvety texture and flavor of super-premium dairy ice cream but none of the milk or eggs in its ingredients. …It might inspire you to make your own frozen desserts, using something like these frozen dessert and yogurt makers.

All four new flavors – dark Chocolate, creamy Vanilla with real vanilla bean, refreshing Mint Chocolate Chip and rich Mocha Chocolate Chip – are made with healthful, cholesterol-free organic coconut milk. Amy’s proprietary technique combined with high-quality, organic ingredients, keeps the coconut flavor in the background, resulting in a sumptuous frozen creation that will fool even traditional dairy ice cream fans.

What inspired Amy’s to make a non-dairy frozen dessert? Amy’s cousin Anna tried an extraordinary non-dairy frozen dessert at a vegan restaurant called Plant in North Carolina. Anna’s husband, a conventional ice cream fan, couldn’t believe the dessert was non-dairy. The two were so blown away by the recipe that they enlisted Amy’s to bring this amazing dessert discovery to a wider audience. Thanks to Plant, Amy’s now has four remarkable non-dairy desserts.

Congratulations to Leslie and her awesome team at Plant restaurant on Merrimon Avenue in Asheville.

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Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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8 Comments

  1. TP February 9, 2014

    Everything at Plant is delicious. Desserts, including ice cream, are phenomenal. The atmosphere is upscale and intimate and the chefs are uber talented. Very excited for their latest success and cannot wait to support this local vegan restaurant!!!

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  2. chris February 8, 2014

    Tried it (chocolate), and I was not terribly impressed. I think Trader Joe’s coconut milk chocolate ice cream is better (much smoother, not as icy, less coconut flavor), and far less pricy. (Amy’s is $6.99 a tub!)

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  3. Stewart January 31, 2014

    Awesome!!! Thanks to Plant, a lot of cows will be spared the enormous suffering endured in the dairy industry. Dairy cows, like all mammals, produce milk for their babies. In order to keep producing milk, they are artificially and repeatedly impregnated. They are often kept in tiny stalls and have hardly any room to move around. After about four years, they are usually sold to slaughter.

    What happens to their babies? They aren’t allowed to stay with their mothers, since the milk will be sold for human consumption. Some will be dragged away within a day of birth and sold to veal farms, where they will be chained in tiny crates slightly larger than their bodies. They will be slaughtered at about 16 weeks of age.

    There are so many reasons to dump dairy! Here are some links for those who want to know more:

    Cow Behavior, Emotion, Intelligence: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/learn/someone-not-something/110-2/

    Animal Cruelty:
    http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/cows/dairy-industry/

    Human Health:
    http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products

    The Environment:
    http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/environment.html

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  4. Headhunter January 31, 2014

    The hop has been making tasty organic and vegan friendly ice cream for years and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg. Plant will charge you $9 for a pint of their ice cream. You get a quart at The Hop for that.

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  5. Nancy January 30, 2014

    awesome! congrats to Plant – they desert it. (hehe – see what i did there?)

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  6. NFB January 30, 2014

    Will it be as expensive as the items on the Plant menu?

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    1. Nate February 2, 2014

      Plant is vegan, but it’s also an upscale, fancy restaurant and it charges prices very much like other upscale, fancy restaurants in this town (Curate, Rhubarb, etc.). Why do you think their prices should be any lower than they are, is it just because they don’t include meat?

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  7. Sarah January 30, 2014

    Plant is for winners. Yay, vegan dining!

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