Haagen-Dazs produces a variety of single-serving ice cream bars with hard chocolate coatings. Like most types of ice creams, these bars contain concentrated amounts of saturated fat and sugar. Learning more about the specific nutrition facts of your favorite Haagen-Dazs bar can help you better understand how the product can fit into your diet.
Calories
The Haagen-Dazs Vanilla and Almonds ice cream bar contains the most calories of all the Haagen-Dazs bars, with 310 calories, including 200 calories from fat. The Vanilla and Dark Chocolate ice cream bar contains 300 calories, including 190 calories from fat, and the Vanilla and Milk Chocolate bar and the Chocolate and Dark Chocolate bar each contain 290 calories, including 180 to 190 calories from fat, respectively. The smaller, snack-size bars contain fewer calories. The Coffee and Almond Crunch Snack Size bars and the Vanilla and Almonds Snack Size bars each contain only 190 calories, including 120 to 130 calories from fat, respectively.
Fat
The Vanilla and Almonds ice cream bar contains 22g of fat, including 13g of saturated fat. This amount of saturated fat represents 65 percent of your recommended daily saturated fat intake. The Vanilla and Dark Chocolate ice cream bar contains 21g of fat, including 13g of saturated fat. The Vanilla and Milk Chocolate ice cream bar contains 21g of fat, including 14g of saturated fat, or 68 percent of your recommended daily saturated fat intake. The Chocolate and Dark Chocolate ice cream bars contain slightly less fat, with 20g of fat, including 12g of saturated fat.
The snack-size ice cream bars also contain less fat. The Vanilla and Almonds snack-size bar has 14g of fat, including 8g of saturated fat, and the Coffee and Almond Crunch snack-size bar has 13g of fat, including 8g of saturated fat. Saturated fat should not account for more than 10 percent of your daily calorie intake, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Limit your saturated fat intake by choosing a smaller sized bar or eating the larger bars only once in a while.
Cholesterol
Concentrated sources of saturated fat such as ice cream bars can increase your LDL cholesterol, or bad cholesterol, and lower your HDL cholesterol, or good cholesterol, according to MayoClinic.com. Regular sized Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars contain 65 to 75mg of cholesterol, or 22 to 26 percent of your recommended daily cholesterol intake. For individuals with high cholesterol, a high risk of heart disease or other health problems, the cholesterol content of these ice cream bars may represent an even larger percentage of their recommended daily cholesterol intake. The snack-size bars contain 35 to 40mg of cholesterol, or 12 to 13 percent of your recommended daily cholesterol intake.
Carbohydrates and Sugar
The large Haagen-Dazs ice cream bars contain 22 to 24g of carbohydrates, including 20 to 21g of sugars. This carbohydrate content represents about 7 to 8 percent of your recommended daily carbohydrate intake. The smaller ice cream bars contain 14 to 15g of carbohydrates and 12 to 13g of sugar.
Protein and Calcium
Dairy products such as ice cream provide protein and calcium. The Haagen-Dazs Vanilla and Dark Chocolate ice cream bar, Vanilla and Milk Chocolate ice cream bar and Chocolate and Dark Chocolate ice cream bar each provide 4g of protein, and the Vanilla and Almonds ice cream bar provides 5g of protein. These bars also provide 10 percent of your recommended daily calcium intake. The smaller bars provide 3g of protein and 6 percent of your recommended daily calcium intake.
Member Comments