Sugar-free, dairy-free and saturated fat-free Ice cream recipe, Amazing delicious & truly healthy, Rich in omega-3 and fibre

Amazingly delicious strawberry ice cream that’s healthy too

This is delicious ice cream: rich, creamy, fruity and gorgeous, and it’s made in minutes from real whole foods. Just banana, strawberries, flax, blueberries on top and a little magic. It’s a lovely way to eat more fruit, especially in summer.

It’s naturally dairy-free, high in fibre, with no added sugar. Ground flaxseed adds extra fibre, including lots of soluble fibre, which helps slow down the absorption of the fruit’s natural sugars and can help support steadier blood sugar levels. So, whether you just like tasty food, or you’re trying to control your blood sugar or lose weight, this is the sort of pudding that can help.

Additionally, it’s ridiculously easy to make. Whizz it up in a food processor and eat it straight away as lovely soft ice cream, or freeze it for later.

Strawberry, Berry & Flax Ice Cream Recipe

Banana & Strawberry Ice Cream with Flax

A delcious, really healthy icecream, all natural ingredients , no added sugar, no saturated fat and simply gorgous that'ssupports your blood sugar levels so it's healthy to eat every day

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Prep Time 8 hours hrs

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Servings: 4

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Anti-inflammatory, Dairy-free, Digestion-friendly, Gluten free, Healthy, Linseed oil, low carb, Low GI, OMS Diet, Raw, Saturated-fat free, Vegan, Vegetarian, Wheat-free

Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 3 medium banana -freeze for about 8 hours or more
• 120-180 g Strawberries or other berries, fresh or frozen
• 2-3 Tablespoons Flax Farm cold-pressed linseed oil
• 3 Tablepoons Flax Farm Gold Ground Linseed
• 16 Drops Stevia Liquid or sweetener of choice optional optional
• 1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
• 1-2 Teaspoons raw honey, yacon syrup, or maple syrup optional
• A few blueberries or other berries for topping

Equipment

• Food processor or blender

Method

 

1. You have to play this by intuition. If the berries are frozen hard, the Place banana in freezer until frozen or if using frozen berries it can be easier to have the banana only half frozen.
   
2. Place all ingredients into a food processor and whiz until smooth. Adjust sweetener to taste. Now serve. It can be made a short while before the meal and frozen until required. If serving from fully frozen allow to come round a little before serving.
   

Notes

 

Why is this homemade fruit ice cream so good?

Firstly, because it’s delicious! My favourite berries are Lidl’s four-berry medley,
which is strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blackcurrants. It gives a lovely
flavour and a good colour. Four berries plus banana gives you your full five of your
five a day. This recipe is a wonderfully easy way of turning a good helping of fruit
into something that feels like a special dessert.

• Wholefoods
• All natural
• Nothing artificial
• Nothing ultra-processed (UPFs)
• No preservatives
• Delicious

Instead of cream, refined sugar, syrups and flavourings, the substance, sweetness,
colour and flavour come from real whole fruit. There’s no need to add
sugar, but sometimes I use pure stevia extract as a natural sweetener and, as a special
treat, a little honey – but so little that there’s still plenty of fibre alongside the sugars.

And don’t be frightened of the natural sugars in fruit. Whole fruit comes with fibre,
water and all the other good things naturally found in the fruit. Ground flax adds even
more fibre, helping to slow digestion and making this a much more blood-sugar-friendly
dessert than conventional bought ice cream.

We’re always being told to eat more plants, more fruit and more fibre. This is a
particularly delicious and healthy way of doing it, especially in summer.

This Homemade Ice Cream Compared to Shop-Bought

How does homemade fruit & flax ice cream compare?

• 24-44% Lower in Calories
• 43% lower Carbs
• Less than half the sugar
• Ten times more fibre (quality dietary fibre at that)
• Negligible saturated fat, up to ten  times lower
• And a generous helping of omega-3 compared to virtually none

Why flax makes it even better

This is where it becomes much more than just another frozen banana ice cream.
The flax is there for good reasons.

Ground flaxseed helps make the ice cream
thick, creamy and more satisfying as you eat it. It’s high in fibre,
which helps make it filling as well as being good for digestion, and flax’s unique
combination of soluble and insoluble fibre helps slow the rate at which the fruit’s
natural sugars enter the bloodstream.

Ground flax is also tops for supporting a healthy, comfortable digestion, feeding
your gut microbiome and helping to generate those amazing short-chain fatty acids,
SCFAs.

Flax Farm cold-pressed flaxseed oil adds a creamy texture. It also
gives you a generous helping of
ALA omega-3 – the good essential, plant-based omega-3 fat that we need more of
in our diets.

So adding flax actually makes this all-plant ice cream better –
creamier, more filling, high in fibre and with a good helping of omega-3 in every portion.

And you will just think you’re eating berry ice cream.

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Make it with your favourite fruit

I love this strawberry/mixed berry version, with plenty of strawberries whizzed into
the ice cream and fresh blueberries piled on top. You get that gorgeous colour and
flavour with sharp little bursts of juicy berries.

Don’t feel you have to stick to berries. Mango can replace the banana, and mango,
pineapple, passion fruit or pretty much any berries can be added for extra fruitiness.
It’s a brilliant recipe for playing around with whatever fruit you have. Try a little
ginger too, either dried or freshly grated.

Fresh or frozen strawberries both work, although frozen fruit makes it especially quick
and gives you that lovely instant, thick ice-cream texture.

The magic that makes it taste really special? Add a teaspoon of vanilla
extract and, if you want, a tablespoon of honey.

The downside to healthy, homemade ice cream?

This is going to spoil you for buying your usual favourites. Ice cream from the supermarket
will start making you feel a bit guilty when you see all the added sugar. Then you’ll
remember that all that saturated fat isn’t so good for us either. And when you read the
rest of the ingredients, you may start wondering what on earth they’re trying to feed you.

Worse still, when you’ve eaten it, you’ll probably feel a bit disappointed that it doesn’t
really taste like what’s pictured on the label.

Eating out is an even bigger let-down for me. As someone who’s gluten-free, ice cream is
one of the few puddings I can usually eat. But then I think about what I can make at home –
how good it tastes, how inexpensive it is and how I know exactly what’s gone into it – and
I just know what’s on offer isn’t going to come close for flavour, let alone the quality
of the ingredients. So these days, I usually just don’t bother.