JYMY ice cream is a Finnish, multi-award-winning organic product from the small but fine company Suomisen Maito Oy. This ice cream manufacturer still uses genuine craftsmanship to create a culinary experience for its customers using sustainably produced organic raw materials.
An important principle of the company is to act ethically – this means that all parts of the supply and production chain are also ethical. This starts with the production of vegetable ingredients, continues with the observance of all standards in the rearing and keeping of dairy cattle and ends with the treatment of employees and suppliers.
When selecting the chocolate, JYMY deliberately chose Cru Virunga chocolate & beans from Eastern Congo. In this way, every portion of ice cream sold with these ingredients helps to support the preservation of Africa’s oldest nature park, Virunga. The support benefits local farming families, initiatives to recultivate the tree population and above all the remaining population of mountain gorillas.
In addition to milk-based classics such as “Naked Milk”, “Cream Caramel” or “Wild Blueberry”, JYMY has also been offering the “Pine” flavour for some time now. At the International Green Week I had the chance to try this rather rarely offered flavour, which was released to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the independent Finland – so it is an anniversary ice cream. This variety and a few more have also made it into Finnair’s renowned business class.
In addition to the milk ice cream varieties made with fresh bio cow’s milk, JYMY also offers some vegan ice cream varieties – for example the “Two Berries” variety based on whole grain organic oats. This variety naturally stands out for the unique quality of Finnish blueberries and strawberries – Finnish berries, whether wild or cultivated, simply taste uniquely good.
JYMY has taken advantage of the fact that there are many fresh pine shoots in Finland, which only need to be harvested to flavour ice cream, as in this case.
The ice cream tasted great, it had a very light ethereal note – hardly noticeable and otherwise tasted like a particularly light & delicious milk ice cream.
All JYMY ice creams are made without the addition of artificial flavours, gluten, preservatives or emulsifiers.
I would have loved to try the many other promising varieties, but at the International Green Week – as far as I mentioned – there was only the pine variety.
Last but not least to the web presence of Suomisen Maito Oy, that offers actual Finnish, German, Swedish, Japanese and English – my compliments for this variety of languages delivered. The site is responsively programmed, very attractively designed, clearly arranged and very informative.