Butternut Ice Cream

Butternut Ice Cream is a creamy, frozen dessert that uses roasted or puréed butternut squash as its primary flavor base, often sweetened with maple syrup or brown sugar and spiced with warm notes like cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. It's a seasonal, autumn-inspired treat popular in North America, where butternut squash is a fall harvest staple.

🍽️ Nutrition at a glance

This dessert is typically high in carbohydrates from both the squash's natural sugars and added sweeteners, with a moderate fat content from cream or milk. It provides a good source of Vitamin A (from beta-carotene in the squash) and potassium, with a rough calorie ballpark of 250-350 kcal per serving.

Nutrition breakdown

Calories	280 kcal
Protein	3 g
Carbs	35 g
Fat	15 g
Fiber	2 g
Sugar	28 g
Sodium	45 mg
Vitamin A	180 mcg RAE
Potassium	220 mg
Calcium	80 mg
Vitamin C	4 mg
Iron	0.5 mg
Magnesium	20 mg
Phosphorus	60 mg
Manganese	0.3 mg

Per 1/2 cup (120 g) · estimated, varies by recipe

💡 What's interesting

Nutritionally, it's unique as it transforms a savory winter squash into a sweet dessert, retaining some of the vegetable's fiber and micronutrients. Culturally, it reflects a creative use of seasonal produce, blending the comfort of squash pie flavors into a frozen format.