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‘Out of this world': The best supermarket chocolate ice-cream, tasted and rated

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By Tom Hunt
| MSN UK Verified
There's been a marked shift towards less-processed ice-cream since I tested vanilla ice-cream for this column last summer . Most ice-cream on the market used to be a cocktail of gums and emulsifiers, but now they're of much higher quality and with fewer additives. All today's chocolate ice-creams are sophisticated, rich and complex, with deep, dark flavours, and I scored them on taste and texture first (I favour denser, French-style, custard-based ice-creams).
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‘Proof that delicious tomatoes can be grown in the UK': The best supermarket vine tomatoes, tasted and rated

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By Tom Hunt
| MSN UK Verified
From brick-red to intense maroon, the tomatoes in this test varied greatly, with the most flavourful ones often also being the richest in tone. I measured the sugar content using a Brix refractometer, and the tomatoes' sweetness also varied hugely, from a sometimes bland and watery Brix score of four (each point represents 1% sucrose in the juice by mass) to a satisfyingly sweet seven. I also scored the tomatoes on overall flavour.
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‘Greasy, flavourless and bland': The best (and worst) supermarket party cakes, tasted and rated

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By Tom Hunt
| MSN UK Verified
Some of these taste tests – for instance, the oven chips one from last summer – surprise me with their overall quality and minimal processing. But others, such as today's party cakes, sit firmly in the ultra-processed category, and often make contradictory claims, “handmade” and “carefully selected high-quality ingredients” being just two. I want my children to enjoy treats without food anxiety, but we also owe it both to ourselves and to them to know what we're actually eating.
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