GITNUX MARKETDATA REPORT 2024
Statistics About The Most Popular Ice Cream
The most popular ice cream flavor globally is vanilla, followed closely by chocolate and strawberry.
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"Vanilla is the most popular flavor of ice cream, accounting for 29% of total ice cream sales."
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"Chocolate (8.9%) is the second most popular ice cream flavor in the United States."
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"Americans consume on average 12.9 pounds of ice cream per person annually."
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"41% of ice cream is consumed in the American South Atlantic region."
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"Half of the Americans, equaling to 56%, prefer eating plain ice cream."
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"Sundays are the most popular day to eat ice cream."
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"6% of ice cream eaters prefer to have it with alcohol."
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"In New Zealand, Cookies and Cream is the most popular flavor of ice cream."
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"More than 1.4 billion gallons of ice cream and related frozen desserts were produced in the U.S. in 2017."
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"About 9% of all the milk produced by U.S. dairy farmers is used to produce ice cream."
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"The U.S. ice cream industry generated total revenue of $10 billion in 2020."
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"The average American consumes ice cream 28.5 times per year."
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"The world's favorite ice cream topping is chocolate syrup."
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"Mint chocolate chip ice cream only makes up 3.7% of overall product sales."
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"Italy, known for its gelato, consumes less than 5.5 kilograms of ice cream per capita."
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"In 2018, the global ice cream market size was valued at $68.8 billion."
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"In Europe, the most popular flavor after vanilla is hazelnut."
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"In Japan, the most popular ice cream flavors are Matcha and Vanilla."
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"Roughly 87% of Americans have ice cream in their freezer at any given time."
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"Chocolate and vanilla combined represent 50% of all ice cream sales, making them the most popular flavors by a wide margin."
