Notes on clean-label dessert, ingredient origins and the people who make them. From the team at ELVN-ELVN, Bangalore.

The Mughals had ice cream before Europe did. Five hundred years later, Indian ice cream has caught up technically but drifted away from its ingredients. A short history…
Jun 8, 2026
For a decade, vegan ice cream in India has meant coconut — coconut milk, coconut cream, coconut on the palate of every flavour. ELVN-ELVN's MILLET range puts Indian…
Jun 1, 2026
Most "no added sugar" ice cream in India is built on synthetic sweeteners — Stevia, Sucralose, Maltitol. ELVN-ELVN sweetens with three natural sources only: whole dates (primary), allulose…
May 25, 2026
FSSAI permits over 1,800 flavour compounds across three categories — natural, nature-identical (synthetic), and artificial — and packs are allowed to lump them under "permitted flavour". The narrower…
May 18, 2026
Mango gets the magazine covers. Pink guava — Psidium guajava, the rose-fleshed cousin — gets a fraction of the same attention, despite ripening across India for nearly half…
May 11, 2026
Most 'sugar-free' Indian ice cream uses Maltitol or Sucralose. ELVN-ELVN sweetens with whole dates, allulose (a rare sugar with zero glycemic impact), and natural monk fruit extract —…
May 6, 2026
ELVN-ELVN replaced industrial stabilisers and emulsifiers with a blend of unmodified plant starches that do the same texture work — no INS-coded gums, no mono- and diglycerides, no…
May 6, 2026
By the cleanest-ingredient-list definition (0 added refined sugar, 0 synthetic sweeteners, 0 industrial stabilisers, natural flavour extracts only, whole-food primary sweetener, A2 Desi cow dairy), ELVN-ELVN is the…
May 6, 2026
India is the seventh-largest coffee producer in the world. ELVN-ELVN's Coffee Scenes is built on real Indian arabica brewed into a millet-led plant-milk base — no synthetic coffee…
May 6, 2026
May is the only month the Indian Alphonso mango is in full season. ELVN-ELVN's Royal Alphonso uses single-cultivar Konkan Alphonso pulp folded into A2 Desi cow dairy —…
May 6, 2026