Salt & Straw Features 'Upcycled' Ice Cream Flavors
Apr 12, 2025 08:56AM ● By Jeanne Fratello
In honor of Earth Month, Salt & Straw is featuring "upcycled" ice cream flavors, made from perfectly tasty ingredients (such as overripe fruit) that would otherwise have become food waste.
Over the past two years, Salt & Straw’s Upcycled series has rescued nearly 50,000 pounds of food waste. Through this effort, the company aims to shine a spotlight on food waste and its role in our food ecosystem.
Some of Salt & Straw's upcycled ingredients include day-old bread, imperfect potato chips, and even the whey left over from yogurt making.
This month's special flavors include:
Malted Potato Chip Cupcake: This flavor is a collaboration with Uglies Kettle Potato Chips and Renewal Mill
to divert over 2,862 pounds of food waste. It features malty chocolate
barley milk ice cream studded with hunks of chocolate-glazed cupcakes
and chocolate-dipped Uglies potato chips. The finishing touch is a thick
ribbon of caramel.
Coffee and Stone Fruit Marmalade: This flavor is a collaboration with Atomo Coffee and Hello! I’m Ugly
to divert over 1,657 pounds of food waste. It features coffee
ice cream created with Atomo’s 50/50 beanless + Arabica coffee blend, swirled with fruit marmalade crafted from Hello! I’m Ugly
dried nectarines and apricots.
Salted Grapefruit Coconut Julep: This flavor is a collaboration with Wheyward Spirit
to divert over 1,191 pounds of food waste. A tropical take on the
classic Derby cocktail, it blends coconut cream with tart and tangy
cacao pulp, churned with salted grapefruit ‘julep’ featuring
‘wheyskey’ from Wheyward Spirit.
Sourdough and Olive Oil Chocolate (vegan): This flavor is a collaboration with Evergrain to divert over 1,095 pounds of food waste. It’s essentially a riff on the quintessential French breakfast of pain au chocolate.
It combines Arbequina extra-virgin olive oil blended into malty
chocolate barley milk, mixed with candied hunks of sourdough
bread.
Also this month, all Salt & Straw shops will also begin using 5-ounce certified compostable scoop cups. That effort aims to eliminate 28,000 pounds of paper waste without changing the portion size. (A smaller cup means a lighter footprint, but the same amount of ice cream.)
Last but not least, on April 22, Salt & Straw scoop shops will offer guests free waffle cones with the purchase of a single scoop. (Now that’s a great way to eliminate paper waste: Eat a cone!)
Read more on the Upcycled ice cream series at the JollyTomato food blog.
