Unlike other frozen treats our ingredient don’t come from a mad scientist’s lab. Smooze is made with freshly pressed coconut milk, real fruit juices, and fruit purees – not concentrates or reconstituted juices.
We then add natural ingredients like:
- Fruit Pectin: a natural dietary fibre found in citrus rind, which makes Smooze creamy. It mixes the fruit juices & purees gel with the coconut (it’s called stabilizer on the pack)
- Citric acid: found in citrus fruits and gives a fruity tang and acts as a natural preservative
- Ascorbic acid: a natural preservative that contains vitamin C
- Fruit flavours: all straight from nature
- Sugar: Smooze has on average 40% less sugar than other frozen treats
View the purity certificate for Smooze’s fruit pectin.
Soo Smooze is:
- Free of artificial colours & flavours
- Preservative free
- Dairy free
- Gluten free
- Cholesterol free
- GM free
- 100% Vegan
- Free from Trans Fats
- Certified Kosher
- Certified Halal
To read the nutritional panel for each Smooze flavour.
Is coconut milk healthy for you? Yes !
Years ago we thought all fats were bad for us, even olive oil. Unfortunately there is still a general misconception that coconut milk is bad for you because it was believed to raise blood cholesterol and cause heart disease. The only “proof” is one forty-year-old study that used highly processed and modified coconut oil. Widespread studies of coconut-consuming populations show that there is no direct link to high cholesterol or heart disease.
What about the saturated fat? Leading scientists now recognise that just as there are healthy types of cholesterol, there are also good forms of saturated fats. Short and medium-chain fats, such as those found in coconut milk, are easily digested, metabolised and quickly converted into energy. These types of fats have almost zero opportunity to be stored in the body as fat. To learn more about coconut milk click here.
Smooze contains significantly less fat, sugar and kilojoules per gram than light ice-cream!
To see a direct comparison of full fat and light ice-cream click here.
Why we don’t use reconstituted juices or concentrates.
Smooze is only ever made from fresh juices and purees and never contains concentrates or reconstituted juices. So naturally they’ll always taste better and be healthier for you than heated-up, cooled-down, water added to, factory-made, cheaper concentrates ever could.
Read the explanation about orange juice from the Australian fruit juice Association’s website about the perils of concentrates and reconstituted juices.
“Oranges are squeezed using machines much like that found in the home. This juice is then ‘condensed’ by removal of water using heat. The resultant concentrate is transported to factories around Australia where the water is added back to the concentrate. This process is called reconstitution. The primary reason for using reconstituted juice is economic transportation and to ensure availability all year round.”
