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Australian produced water ice confection sold frozen on a stick. Ingredients include sugar, food acid, vegetable gum, flavour and colour.

Australian fruit juice or fruit flavoured ice confection. Ingredients include sugar and fruit juices such as lemon, pineapple, passionfruit and orange. Frozen prior to sale and sold on a stick or in a tube. One of four samples does not contain fruit juice.

Australian produced frozen ice confection consisting of ice cream combined with frozen fruit ice. Includes mango, tropical flavours and tropical with nuts flavours.

Australian produced flavoured ice confection on a stick. Major ingredients include sugar, skim milk/solids, whey and vegetable gums. Flavours include chocolate, strawberry, banana and chocolate-dipped vanilla.

Australian produced chocolate coated vanilla flavoured ice cream stick. Prepared by freezing rapidly with agitation to aerate the ice cream and give a light texture prior to shaping and dipping in compound chocolate.

Australian produced frozen ice confection consisting of vanilla ice cream in a waffle cone with chocolate coating inside the cone and on top of the ice cream and sugar coated chocolate pieces spread throughout the ice cream. Cornetto and Drumstick with added confectionary pieces (e.g. Smarties) are examples of this style of product.

Australian produced chocolate and biscuit crumb-coated flavoured ice cream stick. Prepared by freezing rapidly with agitation to aerate the ice cream and give a light texture prior to shaping, dipping in compound chocolate and coating with biscuit crumbs.

Australian produced flavoured gelato. Includes gelato described as strawberry, rockmelon, lemon, chocolate and may include a proportion of sponge cake or dried fruits. Contains milk products.

Australian produced vanilla ice cream. Major ingredients include milk, sugar, gums and emulsifiers. Prepared by freezing rapidly with agitation to aerate the ice cream and give a light texture. Includes standard, premium and natural varieties with fat content ~11%. Some analysed samples contain egg yolk.

Australian produced vanilla ice cream. Major ingredients include milk, sugar, gums and emulsifiers. Prepared by freezing rapidly with agitation to aerate the ice cream and give a light texture. Formulated to be reduced in fat compared to regular vanilla ice cream.