Wink Frozen Desserts are the 100 Calorie, Allergy-Friendly Pints (DISCONTINUED)

I just really miss the original Wink and wanted to leave a review. I first tried Wink in June 2016 and became OBSESSED with it, ordering large amounts despite the high cost. Back then I had to travel a lot, and whenever I would visit a new city I would rush to the closest store that had Wink and buy some… it was that good!

Yes, it didn’t taste exactly like regular ice cream, but the taste was just really light. It had a pleasant light sweetness and creaminess to it. I usually improved the flavor by manually mixing in some additional monk fruit, salt, cinnamon, etc. which helped a lot with the taste without upping the calories much! But I didn’t mind it on its own either.

It was amazing that it was vegan, sugar free, and only 100 calories, without any artificial sweeteners or erythritol. There is still nothing like it on the market today.

I lost a large amount of weight eating this product. My weakness has always been snacking on sweets in the evening. Instead of my usual sweets, I could eat a few whole pints of this stuff and feel so indulgent and still be fairly low on calories! And I have a very sensitive digestive system, but due to the careful selection of ingredients in this product caused me no digestive discomfort. To this day, I am not aware of ANY other vegan dessert that has all the properties Wink did (vegan, sugar free, low calorie, digestively safe, etc.)

Unfortunately, things started to go south in December 2016 when Wink changed their formula to replace xanthan gum with flaxseeds and locust bean gum. The texture completely changed from something light but creamy to something super icy. It was nearly identical to a snow cone in texture. This ruined one of the main things loved about Wink (the creamy texture). In addition, all the flavors tasted basically the same, whereas before things like Cake Batter and Vanilla Bean tasted very different and much more different from each other. I immediately reached out to Wink, notifying them that this would turn off a lot of customers and potentially lead to the failure of their company. They wrote back nicely, and even sent me the remaining pints of the old formula until they ran out of every flavor in May 2017. But they decided to stick with their new “improved” (ha) recipe. I really never got used to the new flavors and shortly afterwards moved to an area that they were not sold in.

Now I see all the bad reviews from 2019 and the closure of their company around November/December of that year, and I understand completely but it makes me sad. I can’t help but miss the way they used to be (especially since I need to use a few pounds haha). They were a good company that made some bad decisions but also produced products that met a very real need. They didn’t deserve the hate they got.

Thankfully I just got a new compressor ice cream maker! I am going to try to “copy” the Wink ingredients to see if I can reverse-engineer their original recipe and see if I can make something even better 🙂

I discovered this product at a Diabetes Expo years ago and I buy it every summer. It is great to have a summer drink that won’t elevate my blood glucose level.

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This is wonderful. I like the flavors (I’ve tried Pumpkin Spice, Vanilla and Cocoa Mint) and don’t feel guilty eating these.

what do you expect? they’re super low in calories for ICE CREAM.. so i mean, come on. taking that into consideration, they’re THE BEST. i liked the cake batter a lot. you have to melt them a bit though, like let them sit for a min. too bad they went out of business, likely from all the people who expected creamy, delicious, decadence.. sorry, not for 100ish calories y’all.

I just found a new entrant into the keto ice cream market (it is excellent by the way) and it made me think about Wink…it was the most awful product i have ever tasted….i threw away every last one of the……i was sure Wink had to be out of business…the flavor profiles were just awful.

This was a total waste of money….and very expensive! I will never buy Wink again, and I will never recommend it to anyone. Totally blah. I thought strawberry would have chunks of the fruit in it, but no. It is the most bland tasting frozen “whatever” that I have ever tasted. Very disappointing, to say the least.

Wink had a deal for $50 worth of product for free shipping, so I bought it. Especially because of all the ‘reviews’ that made it seem too good to be true.

It came nicely packaged, with dry ice and instructions. We had to wait a while to let it soften before we could try it. Like about 30 minutes on the counter.

We tried the Strawberry–tasted like lipstick. The cookies and cream, like milky water, every pint was just INEDIBLE.

So, I cut the losses and chucked the $50 worth of ‘ice cream’.

Then, I saw an ad pop up for the same deal and a person asked if anyone had tried it. I responded that I really wanted to love it, but the taste was not for me. That’s it….nothing nasty, no urging to save money….just a candid comment.

Instead of reaching out…they BLOCKED ME! Can you believe that? That is why there is such a disparity between what you see here on Go Dairy Free and what you see on Facebook–WINK turned off their reviews so no one can share the truth.

So, not only is their product disgusting, so are their business practices.

I bought and consumed several containers of Wink 100 calorie pints. Wink 100 calorie dessert is the absolutely worst mock ice cream product I’ve ever eaten. However, there is a niche for the 100 calorie product. They need to revamp and make their product palatable. I make my own product and it’s better than theirs. I wish they were close to Des Moines–I’d help them!

The cake batter flavor was spot on..if you were making a very watered down, mint flavored coffee cake. Not great, not disgusting..not even close to cake batter.