Mint chocolate chip is an ice cream flavor composed of mint ice cream with small chocolate chips. In some cases the liqueur crème de menthe is used to provide the mint flavor, but in most cases peppermint or spearmint flavoring is used.

Milk, Cream, Sugar, Chocolate Flavored Chips [Sugar, Coconut Oil, Cocoa (processed with Alkali), Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Vanilla Extract], Whey, Tara Gum, Peppermint Extract.

Always mixing it up? There's a good chance mint chocolate chip is your favorite flavor, according to Hirsch's study for Dreyer's/Edy's, which found this ice cream signified ambition, confidence, frugalness, and argumentativeness.

This ice cream is made with a traditional custard base using heavy cream, whole milk, and egg yolks. It's sweetened with sugar and flavored with mint extract and vanilla extract, then studded with chocolate chips – I prefer dark or semisweet, but you could use milk, too – whatever type you prefer.

What Makes Mint & Chocolate So Tasty? There aren't many scientific reasons why mint and chocolate go together so well, but that doesn't mean no valid reasons exist! Chocolate takes on a rich, rounded, and sometimes earthy flavor, while mint provides a sharp and refreshing taste that enlivens the senses.

A fun fact – mint chocolate chip ice cream was invented in 1973 by culinary student Marilyn Ricketts while studying at South Devon College in England. She entered a competition to provide an ice cream dessert for Princess Anne's wedding to Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abby.

What Makes Mint & Chocolate So Tasty? There aren't many scientific reasons why mint and chocolate go together so well, but that doesn't mean no valid reasons exist! Chocolate takes on a rich, rounded, and sometimes earthy flavor, while mint provides a sharp and refreshing taste that enlivens the senses.

Chocolate mint: strong minty taste, with a chocolate presence | The Chef's Garden. Chocolate mint has a strong minty taste, plus a presence or bouquet of chocolate, and texture is crunchy and succulent.

Mint and vanilla and chocolate mixed together should taste overwhelming and strange. But when done well, mint chip ice cream is creamy, decadent, and oddly refreshing. It's certainly not for everyone, but people who are into it tend to be really into it.

Benefits of Chocolate Mint

• palette cleanser.
• aids in digestion.
• aides with respiratory disorders.
• anti-inflammatory activity.
• gets rid of nagging headaches.
• helps people with insomnia.
• helps with asthma.
• helps with eczema.

Taste. Mint tastes sweet and produces a lingering cool effect on the tongue. Peppermint has a stronger flavor with more menthol taste. The fresh leaves have the most flavor and scent, with those much reduced in dried mint leaves.

That's because of a unique chemical element: menthol and the cooling sensation that menthol creates. We associate that cold feeling with freshness (which may have as much to do with marketing as anything), and so mint has the ability to make our mouths feel clean, whether or not they really are.