NutritionalInformation

We promise to use the freshest and “cleanest” ingredients available and strive to use organic fruits and vegetables when possible.

Ice Cream Base Ingredients: (All dairy ice cream is made with these base ingredients)…
Cream, Milk, Whey Protein, Cane Sugar, Natural Guar Gum, Natural Locust Bean Gum.

*** No Eggs, Gluten Free, No High Fructose Corn Syrup, No Polysorbate 80, No Mono-Diglycerides (read more below)

Vanilla:
A key ingredient in most ice cream flavors. We use the highest quality Vanilla Beans from Madagascar and Tahiti. (Both organic and conventional depending on the flavor profile desired)

Chocolate:
We source our chocolate from Belgium. We always use the best Pure Dark chocolates we can find.

Fruit:
We use Organic Strawberries, Blueberries, and Cherries. Our raspberries and watermelon are usually conventional. Other seasonal fruits are picked for freshness and source and can be either Organic or conventional.

Inclusions:
Baked or Cooked Items we put into our ice cream after freezing.

• All Caramels are made in house. Sugar, Butter, Cream
• House Made Pine Nut Brittle: Sugar, Butter, Cream, Milk, Organic Pine nuts, Light Corn Syrup, Baking Powder
• House Made Praline Pecans” Pecans, Cane Sugar, brown Sugar, Cream, Baking, Butter, Baking Soda
• House made brownies and cookies (except the Oreo in Cookies and Cream)
• House Made Crisp (our crisp contains wheat/Gluten)

Going for familiar flavors: We use Oreo®, Reece’s® Peanut Butter Cups, & Heath® in a few of our comfort flavors.

We NEVER use the following:

• Artificial flavors or Colors
• Mono- and diglycerides (Common in other ice cream and is used as an emulsifier)
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Polysorbate 80 (A synthetic substance commonly used as an emulsifier and to help with melting issues)
  

  (If you think you find our ice cream in stores, read the label and you’ll realize that another company that sells in our area is NOT made by Little Truckee Ice Creamery and is of substantially different ingredients.

Allergen Information: 
While we do not put nuts in our ice cream maker, we do share the facility which uses Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Soy, Milk, Eggs & Wheat.

We do our best to reduce the risk of cross-contamination in our scoop shop by not putting nuts or wheat into the ice cream maker.  The servers at our shop are supplied with scoops that are only used with the non-dairy and no nut flavors. Please mention any nut allergy, and the service person will happily use a clean, sanitized and dry scoop for your portion,

Our Milk Products are fresh and delicious.

• Cows Raised with no added artificial growth hormones or rBST
• Milk produced by cows living on a family owned and operated Dairy Farm in California.

State Licensed and Inspected
Our facility in Truckee is inspected Quarterly by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Dairy Division. Lab samples are taken and tested at each inspection. We have always maintained an “A” rating. A copy of the inspection results are available upon request.

Non- Dairy Options (Always Vegan and Gluten Free):

Coconut Base
We use a high fat Organic Coconut Cream in our coconut milk based frozen dessert.  We use Organic dried coconut flakes. We make our own dark chocolate chips. We also use a small amount of Vanilla and Coconut Extract and Natural Guar Gum.

Sorbet
We use Fresh Fruit*, Water, Cane Sugar and a small amount of Natural Guar Gum.
* Organic Strawberries, Blueberries, Lemons and Cherries. conventional raspberries and Watermelon with some special exceptions when we can source these two in Organic varieties.

Guar Gum:
Guar Gum is extracted from the Guar bean, an annual legume, made into a powder, and used as a thickening agent. Guar also helps prevent unwanted ice crystal growth in a freeze thaw situation. It gives ice cream and Sorbet a nice mouth feel and when used in conjunction with Locust Bean Gum replaces then need to use egg yolks in ice cream.

Gluten:
Our ice cream base is Gluten Free. There will only be gluten in flavors with baked inclusions such as cookies, brownies and crisps. Some of the Gluten Free Ice Cream flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate, Salted Caramel, Mint Chip, Coffee, Dark Cherry, Blueberry, Caramel Swirl, Rocky Road, Coconut, Mocha Almond Fudge, Toffee Chip, Chocolate Chip and  others that we can tell you about in the shop.

Enjoy with confidence!