La Indita Michoacana is one of my favorite ice cream because it’s made with one of my favorite tropical fruit - mamey.

These are not the usual mamey (or sapota) I’m used to eating. The mamey used in this ice cream is from the large variety grown in the Caribbean and Mexico.

The packaging looks great, the fruits looks delicious and the little Mexican girl trademark is nice too.

My only shocker was the color of the ice cream was much more brighter then the one pictured in the carton. It’s more like freaky fluorescent in color. And almost the same color as the fabric on my table.

I’m not saying the artificial color is all bad and can eat stuff like this once in a while. But for something I eat often, I prefer a more natural color.

Just because of the surprising bright orange color, I won’t be buying any more mamey flavor ice cream from them.  Instead I’ll buy frozen mamey and make my own ice cream shake.

Besides all that, it’s still good ice cream made of other really good ingredients.  The milk comes from Berkeley Farms in Northern California.  And the ice cream is produced and packaged locally too.

The package label does say “natural and artificial flavors and colors”. Other ingredients include milk, cream, and corn syrup. At least the last part isn’t “high fructose” corn syrup.

The word paletas is Mexican for ice cream bars. And I still love paletas. I hope to find ones that are made with more natural ingredients.

La Indita paletas bars come in a variety of other fruit flavor including guava, mango, coconut, and more.  The guava and mango taste like eating real frozen fruits mixed with cream and sugar.