Most likely, you’re aware that ice cream doesn’t qualify as diet food. It’s undeniably tasty, and on a sweltering summer day, few treats match the delight of a refreshing, sweet scoop. Yet, indulging in ice cream won’t exactly help trim your waistline. However, not all ice cream brands have the same health profile. Some well-known options at your local supermarket are packed with artificial ingredients, flavors, and preservatives. Here are six ice cream brands that are primarily composed of air and additives.

Edy’s

Though Edy’s ice cream is delightful, its ingredient list includes numerous artificial colors and additives. According to Tara Collingwood, MS, RDN, CSSD, LD/N, ACSM-CPT, a Board Certified Sports Dietitian and co-author of the Flat Belly Cookbook for Dummies, these flavors often incorporate polysorbate 80, carrageenan, and high-fructose corn syrup.

Kemps

Kemps enjoys popularity and has a great taste, yet its ingredients aren’t impressive, featuring additives, artificial flavorings, and high fructose corn syrup. Some of the worst offenders include guar gum, mono- and diglycerides, and carrageenan.

Great Value

Great Value ice cream at Walmart will definitely save you money, and shoppers maintain it is delicious. However, you might be compromising your health. Collingwood explains that Walmart can sell it for less than most of the competition because they keep costs down with “synthetic colorings, assorted emulsifiers, and titanium dioxide for extra whiteness.”

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Blue Bunny

Blue Bunny is readily available at most stores across the country. However, the popular ice cream uses additives, artificial flavors, and high fructose corn syrup in its pints. Certain flavors are healthier and made with higher quality ingredients compared to others, so make sure to check the label of the flavor. Vanilla, for example, is made with just milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla.

Turkey Hill

Turkey Hill is another big national brand of ice cream that offers a lot of bang for the buck in terms of taste. However, it is made with ingredients similar to Kemps and Blue Bunny: artificial food coloring, cellulose gel, cellulose gum, soybean oil, and mono- and diglycerides, just a few of the names on the ingredients list, which also includes high fructose corn syrup.

Blue Ribbon Classics

If you have done any research on ice cream, you probably already know that many of kinds of frozen treats you consider ice cream, actually aren’t. Collingwood points out that Blue Ribbon Classics, a popular grocery store ice cream, is marketed as “frozen dairy desserts” and is “not true ice cream.” Ingredients include dairy milk solids, palm kernel oil, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial colors(Yellow 5, Blue 1), and artificial flavors.