"the dirty secret of the ice cream industry. They replace the expensive dairy fat that makes real ice cream taste like real ice cream with cheap vegetable fats, primarily coconut oil or palm kernel oil, that can be sourced for a fraction of the cost. The resulting product looks like ice cream, feels vaguely like ice cream in your mouth, and costs almost nothing to produce, but it's not ice cream in any meaningful sense. It's a frozen vegetable fat dessert with some milk powder stirred in for appearances."