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                                                                      It is worth mentioning that the Kor family
                                                                  (owners of Warm Ice) doesn’t struggle with the
                                                                  same issues because they claim to use strictly
                                                                  fresh, organic, raw produce and superfoods in
                                                                  the low-scale production of their frozen desserts.
                                                                  Therefore, the restraints they are facing seem to
                                                                  go along the lines of availability and fluctuation
                                                                  in prices of raw materials they use, as well as the
                                                                  high cost of manual avocado milk and fruit sug-
                                                                  ar extraction.
                                                                      When it comes to plant-based dairy cen-
                                                                  sorship, Russian producers face similar chal-
                                                                  lenges to their European counterparts (although
                                                                  not quite as stringent yet). According to Ilya
                                                                  Kuznetsov, it is illegal to put the w wwords “ice
                                                                  cream” on the vegan ice cream label. Instead, it
                                                                  has to be named in accordance with the strictly
                                                                  technical definition of the product, i.e. ”whipped
                                                                  oat-based frozen dessert”. Imagine if dairy prod-
                                                                  ucts had to face the same legal regulations!            WE WERE
                                                                  Having the law expose animal products for what
                                                                  they are would surely drive plant-based sales.          Built For This
                                                                  What Does the Future Hold for
                                                                  Vegan Ice Cream?

                                                                      Whether the vegan ice cream market will
                                                                  reach its desired size in the next decade—only          With a powerful motor, convenient controls, and
                                                                  time will tell. Some are more optimistic than           easy-to-remove sound enclosure, the Touch & Go
                                                                  others: while Ale Kor said that the trend for
                                                                  plant-based eating will come and go, and Ilya           Advance is the ideal beverage blender for smaller-
                                                                  Kuznetsov mostly supported this claim by saying         volume shops. You’ll enjoy 6 pre-set buttons and
                                                                  the market’s skyrocketing development will slow         20 recipe programs. Your customers will enjoy
                                                                  down, and what will be left of it is companies
                                                                  like O12, slowly developing better plant-based          consistent results for their favorite drinks.
                                                                  products for that same—albeit grown – niche of
                                                                  plant-based enthusiasts. Meanwhile, both Nina           Learn more at www.vitamix.com/Commercial.
                                                                  Titova and Alexandra Irinovna—ethical vegan
                                                                  business owners—expressed hope that sometime
                                                                  soon (due to economical, environmental, and
                                                                  ethical reasons) veganism will become the wide-
                                                                  ly accepted norm, and perhaps even the whole
                                                                  world could go vegan. We can only hope it does.






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