Global premium ice-cream brand Haagen Dazs today said it was still struggling to find a vegetarian natural stabiliser as an alternative to egg-yolk which faces resistance from a section of consumers in India.
"India is the only unique country where the brand is facing some hurdles on the ground of not being a pure veg ice-cream," Haagen-Dazs chef Anthony David said today on the sidelines of opening of the 17th store of India in city.
The US brand, which claims all-natural ingredients without any artificial way of preservatives, today said it was still struggling in India for finding an alternative to the natural stabiliser.
"We are actively working on it, but still struggling to find a natural ingredient to egg-yolk as natural stabilser required to prepare ice-cream. As we use only natural products we are still using egg-yolk powder in all our ice-creams," David said.
He claimed that the remaining ice-cream brands which are making pure vegitarian ice-creams use some kind of artificial ingredients.
He said that all ice-creams were being imported from a single plant at Arras in France for all its 900 stores across 50 countries.
The Kolkata Haagen Dazs franchise director, Shagun Agarwal, said they remained bullish about the acceptance of the global brand in the metropolis. They also propose to open a few more store in the city.
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