Tesco Finest Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream

What is it?

Madagascar grows most of the world's vanilla, and its beans give the full, sweet profile people mean by vanilla without qualifying it, richer than the delicate Tahitian and less spicy than Mexican. Naming the origin is a claim about the extract rather than the recipe. Vanilla is graded and traded by origin the way coffee is, so naming Madagascar is a statement about the bean rather than a flourish. The pack calls it smooth and fragrant. With nothing folded through the tub, those two things are all there is, which leaves the base and the extract fully exposed. At 480ml this is the Finest tub size, smaller than the 900ml standard pots and closer to a single sitting.