Trader Joe's Boba Ice Cream Review
Product Name: Cold Brew Coffee & Boba Coconut Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert
Product Description: Cold brew coffee ice cream with tapioca pearls in a pint-size container.
Brand: Trader Joe's
Dietary Notes: Soy Free, Vegan
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VSO's Rating:
(5)
Summary
This Trader Joe’s boba ice cream has a rich coffee flavor and plenty of chewy boba tapioca pearls throughout.
Pros
- Delicious, with a rich coffee flavor and chewy boba.
- 230 calories for 2/3 cup, which may be a bit lower in calories as compared to some other non-dairy ice creams.
Cons
- If you’re not a boba fan, this product may not be for you.
- It costs $4.49 for a pint. There are about 3 servings per container or $1.49 per serving. It would take a few containers to treat a larger family.
Trader Joe’s Boba Ice Cream Review
The Trader Joe’s boba ice cream label reads “Boba, commonly found in Taiwanese bubble tea, are the chewy tapioca pearls that rest at the bottom until sipped through a straw. Here’s the twist: We replaced tea with cold brew coffee, bringing you this coconut non-dairy frozen dessert with tapioca pearls mixed throughout. So smooth, so cool, so refreshing!”
Cold brewing, by definition, is also called cold water extraction or cold pressing, it’s the process of steeping coffee grounds in water at cool temperatures for an extended period of time.
All I know is that Trader Joe’s has once again performed some amazing magic to come up with such a tasty treat! What they’ve done is use coconut milk to create a non-dairy base, added an authentic coffee flavor using cold-brewed coffee, and then added in lots of delicious chewy boba. It’s a match made in heaven!
You won’t taste any coconut as the coffee flavor is so rich and decadent.
If you’re like me with a sweet tooth and need something sweet after whatever meal of the day be it breakfast, lunch, or dinner…I’ll just dip into the container with a spoon and grab a few bites it’s so yummy! Another little trick is that coming straight out of the freezer it may be rock solid, so I just pop the container in the microwave for about 10-12 seconds, then spoon it out and enjoy! You can also just let it rest for a few minutes on the counter.
Trader Joe’s Boba Ice Cream is filled with generous amounts of chewy boba. | Photo Credit: Trader Joe’s / Instagram @traderjoes
Serving Ideas for Trader Joe’s Cold Brew & Boba Ice Cream
- Try adding a little maple syrup as a topping for a maple coffee flavor.
- Add your favorite granola, not only will you get the chewiness from the boba, but also a crunch from the granola.
- Non-dairy chocolate morsels are always fun!
- Try a topping of vegan hot fudge and whipped cream to make it into a boba ice cream sundae 🍨.
Trader Joe’s Boba Ice Cream Ingredients and Nutrition Facts
The ingredients are Coconut milk (coconut cream, water), water, sugar, tapioca pearls (glucose syrup, water, modified tapioca starch, powdered sugar, sugar, tapioca starch) glycerin, rice bran oil shortening, caramel color), ground coffee beans, maltodextrin, dextrose, mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids, guar gum, sea salt, carob bean gum. See the photo below for full nutritional details.
Photo Credit: Trader Joe’s / TraderJoes.com
Would I buy this Cold Brew & Boba ice cream again?
Absolutely, I just love the combination of a creamy rich coffee flavor and chewy Boba! They also make a Black Tea & Boba version of this non-dairy dessert, which I haven’t had the pleasure of trying yet. If you’ve tried either one of these flavors then let us know what you thought of them below!
Sue
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Coffee Float
Tried this and loved it
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Good tastew
I enjoyed the taste and would recommend it.
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Brew&boba ice cream
This ice cream was actually very good with flavor, it’s not what you very expect, but the texture and flavor was very good, now as the price,I think could use a drop on, some of these Ice creams are pretty expensive,
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Trader Joe's Boba Ice Cream
I love coffee flavored ice cream and coconut milk! I would love to try this ice cream with some vegan chocolate chip cookies 🍪
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Not GF
You note that this is Gluten Free, however, that is not on the label. Please do not misrepresent that. I reacted to the ice cream and suspect it was made in a facility with cross contamination.
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Thank you for bringing that to our attention. I’ve corrected the listing so it’s not labelled gluten-free!
Trader Joe’s Boba Ice Cream
I love it and My family love it and My mother is a coffee person and I don’t like coffee.
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Delish
This is the best… Smooth and full of flavor.
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This is so good!
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Coffee boba ice cream
I thought the ice cream was delicious but the boba didn’t do anything for me. To me, they were obstacles to the good stuff and took up space where more ice cream could have been!
Trader Joe’s also released a black tea boba ice cream, but I thought the flavor of that one was just okay and wouldn’t get it again.
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Unique!
I’ve never had boba in ice cream, that sounds like it would be very interesting to try.
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I love boba!
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Yum
Looks and sounds very yummy😊
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Sounds great!
I have had Boba ince cream bars and loved them, so I know I will like this!
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Not a Coffee Fan
I haven’t tried this; I don’t even shop Trader Joe’s. I could eat this, which is big for me because of all my food allergies. I wouldn’t though because I absolutely hate coffee. If there was another flavor, maybe. Although I still don’t stop TJ. I shop at Whole Foods, which has all the foods I can safely eat, and I love them.
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Personally not a fan
The coffee ice cream part is top notch but I just couldn’t get past the texture of the boba pearls. It was like gummy bears in the my ice cream! Some people might be into that and if so, they would love this! I personally don’t like gummies unless they maybe have CBD in them…
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