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   From: yu.chu@walmart.com   
      
   Last we checked, ice cream is supposed to melt if it isn't kept   
   chilled.   
      
   But Walmart's store-brand ice cream sandwiches don't even melt   
   in the sun, according to a report from WCPO Cincinnati.   
      
   The discovery was made by a local mom, Christie Watson, who   
   noticed that a Great Value ice cream sandwich her son left out   
   on their patio table hadn't fully melted -- even though it had   
   been sitting out for 12 hours on an 80-degree day. Watson left a   
   second ice cream sandwich out overnight with the same results,   
   WCPO reports.   
      
   "What am I feeding to my children?" she asked, appalled.   
      
   “Ice cream melts based on the ingredients, including cream,"   
   Walmart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt said in an email. "Ice cream   
   with more cream will generally melt at a slower rate, which is   
   the case with our Great Value ice cream sandwiches."   
      
   But as Business Insider reports, the product also contains a   
   number of additives:   
      
   According to Wal-Mart's website, the ice cream sandwiches   
   contain milk, cream, buttermilk, sugar, whey, and corn syrup.   
      
   It also contains "1 percent or less of mono-and diglycerides,   
   vanilla extract, guar gum, calcium sulfate, carob bean gum,   
   cellulose gum, carrageenan, artificial flavor, and annatto for   
   color."   
      
   WCPO conducted an experiment of their own, leaving out a third   
   Walmart sandwich alongside a Klondike bar and a pint of Haagen   
   Dazs ice cream. The Haagen Dazs ice cream -- which contains only   
   cream, milk, sugar, eggs and vanilla, and no gums -- melted   
   fastest. The Klondike bar melted, too.   
      
   "The Walmart sandwich, though it melted a bit, remained the most   
   solid in appearance, and still looked like a sandwich," the   
   station reported.   
      
   One word: EW.   
      
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/walmart-ice-cream-   
   sandwiches_n_5621240.html   
      
       
      
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