I love ice cream.. I think it could be considered my favorite dessert of all! But we all know how unhealthy it can really be. Loaded with fat and cholesterol, it is not the best alternative for a sweet treat on a regular basis. Now I also love creamy frozen yogurt and I often will enjoy that in place of ice cream as a healthy alternative. But as we know too the best sweet treat is fruit. Healthy and good for you! But getting the kids to eat fruit in place of a tasty dessert can be an issue… until now! I heard about this cool machine that takes fruit and makes them into ice cream. I was intrigued, so I needed to check this out and review it for you and my family!
Yonanas is a new, easy to use ice cream maker that uses frozen bananas, fruits and other ingredients to make low cost, healthy soft serve ice cream. This cool machine was created by Dole and it is a great concept for offering delicious desserts made from fruit!
I got my machine and immediately read the directions so we could enjoy some goodness right away. But alas, I had to wait. The concept is to use frozen ripe bananas and other fruits to create delectable desserts in a flash. I did not happen to have any bananas in the house, so off I went to grab some. Now the machine needs ripe bananas to work best. So the ones where the skin has cheetah spots is best. You then peel the banana and place them in the freezer for at least 24 hours, in a freezer bag or container. Once the fruit has been in there and is frozen well, you can make your dessert!
So finally the day has come! The bananas were ready and I have also grabbed some peaches and strawberries from over the summer out of the freezer. You let the fruit sit for about 15 minutes and then it is ready.
Now the machine itself is super easy to use. There are just a few parts and they all come together and come off easily for cleaning. To prepare your ice cream, you simply feed the fruit into the feeder shoot and use the tube to push it down into the tube. It is chopped and whipped into a frozen texture that is just like ice cream. But instead of cream, you have whipped frozen fruit.
Now, I have to say I am not a fan of banana flavor. I love the fruit but itself, but in anything else (other than banana bread) it is not for me – I know, weird. So my hubby and son made the first batch with banana and strawberry. They enjoyed it greatly! I made a second batch with strawberry and peaches and it was awesome! The texture is very much like ice cream but it is really a sorbet. I did add a touch of sugar, only because the fruit was pretty tart on its own. You then stir the mixture together in your bowl and enjoy!
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The machine comes with a recipe guide, plus there are more recipes on their website. You can add all types of fruits, chocolate, or whatever you want to your ice cream to punch it up. There are easy recipes for Mixed Berry sorbet, Mango, Strawberry Pineapple. Now Chocolate Coconut sounds good! How about Nutella and Banana? Or Cherry Chocolate? This machine will do it all!
I think this is a very cool addition to our dessert options at my home. Perfect for entertaining and it really is a cinch to clean up. It is an awesome way to add healthy fruits into your kids diet too!
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Mango Sorbet sounds amazing!
I would love to make the Mango Raspberry Sorbet.
I would love to try the Nutty for Nutella Yonanas.
We would enjoy trying the Caramel Apple Yonanas recipe this holiday season.
The Strawberry Pineapple sounds really good
Cookies and cream yonanas
Thanks for the giveaway… Mango Raspberry Sorbet
The blackberry vanilla bean sound sooooo yummy I’d love to try that recipe
Blackberry Vanilla Bean
Caramel Apple Yonanas
oh my the blackberry vanilla bean would be amazing
I want to try the Blackberry Vanilla Bean recipe!
I’d like to make the Blueberry Pomegranate. Sounds yummy
Peach- Pineapple Yonanas
Caramel Apple Yonanas
I really think that the Mango sorbet would be a huge hit in my house
They all look great, but I’d try the Grasshopper Pie first.
Peach- Pineapple Yonanas
Would love the Tiramisu Yonanas!! Yummy!
The strawberry shortcake looks good.
I read about Yonanas a while back and thought it was such a clever idea! Blackberry Vanilla Bean sounds absolutely delicious!
id love to try the Red White & Blue Yonanas Cake
I would love to try this. Love ice cream but would prefer a healthier choice.
mango raspberry sobet
The mango raspberry sorbet sounds delicious!
I’d like to try the recipe for Mixed Berry Pie with Chocolate Crust! YUM 😉
We would like the Strawberry Pineapple Sorbet.
I would like to try the pumpkin banana yonanas
Tiramisu Yonanas
I’d like to try the Tangerine & Strawberry Yonanas!
I think my family & I would enjoy the Tiramisu Yonanas. It’s like taking another dessert and making it with a twist. Sounds good.
I think the berry chocolate zin recipe sounds mouth watering!
The Caramel Apple Yonanas recipe sound wonderful!
We would love the Chocolate Berry Zin.
I would try to prepare the Peach- Pineapple Yonanas if I had the machine.
I’d go for the Mango Raspberry Sorbet.
Tiramisu Yonanas sounds really good. Lots of good ones!
Mango sorbet- I didn’t know that it could use anything other than bananas till now.
Berry cream pie
We’d like Mango Sorbet!
The Yonanas berry cream pie sounds awesome.
melon sorbet
The mixed berry sorbet sounds yummy
thank you
Tangerine & Strawberry Yonanas we would try.
I would love to try the Melon Sorbet.
We would love to try the yonanas berry cream pie.
mango raspberry sorbet
Yonanas Berry Cream Pie!yum YUM!
want to try Yonanas Berry Cream Pie recipe
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The Berry Chocolate Zin sounds amazing!
Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas sounds good.
I would like to try Strawberry shortcake yonanas.
Raspberry Banana Softie
I would like to try the Mango Sorbet first
the strawberry shortcake yonanas
I’d like to try the Tiramisu Yonanas
Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas
the Yonanas Grasshopper Pie
The Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas sounds good to me
we’d enjoy the blackberry vanilla bean – looks SO good!
peach-pineapple yonanas
I would make Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas!
My family would enjoy the Red White & Blue Yonanas Cake recipe.
the Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas looks so yummy!! i would be trying this first time i got the chance!! we love strawberries so that would go great in our house!
Mango Raspberry Sorbet
Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas
The peach sorbet looks very tasty.
The Blackberry Vanilla Bean looks good
The mixed berry sorbet caught my eye, but I’d make a LOT of those recipes!
I would like the try the peach sorbet
I’d like to make the Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas.
I would like to try, Apple Maple Walnut Yonanas.
would love to make the grasshopper pie
Peach- Pineapple Yonanas
I have tried this sort of thing before and its yumy!
cookies and cream sounds like it would be good but I would love most of them thanks
i think we would enjoy the melon sorbet recipe!
Peaches ,strawberry all them so good. i would be curious to try the grasshopper pie
This looks awesome… I love classic banana, but I would definitely give the Melon Sorbet a try.
I would like the try the mango sorbet recipe.
Their recipe for Grasshopper Pie sounds relish: .yonanas.com/recipes/grasshopper-pie-2/
Strawberry sounds good.
We would love to try the Perfectly Peach Yonannas recipe.
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mango sorbet
I would love to try the Berry Chocolate Zin
Mojito Yonanas would be great for a dinner party dessert
We would enjoy the Strawberry Shortcake and the Mango Sorbet.
Ladyblueeyez1960 (at)(aol)(dot)(com)
Caramel Apple Yonanas
Berry chocolate zin, wow, a lot of great recipes
The Cinnamon Cocoa Yonanas sounds so yummy! Would love to win this! (:
I want to try the Kiwi Sorbet
We would love the Caramel Apple Yonanas recipe
Grasshopper Pie recipe
We would love the mango raspberry sorbet.
They would love Tiramisu Yonanas!
Tiramisu is my favorite dessert, so I’d love to try the Tiramisu Yonanas!
berry chocolate zin
I would love to try the Mango Sorbet. Thanks for the awesome giveaway 🙂
Renee
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I want to make the strawberry shortcake yonanas
Thank you for the chance to win
We want to make the raspberry banana softie
I’d like the Peach- Pineapple Yonanas recipe!
Would love the Grasshopper Pie recipe
Blueberry Sorbet recipe, I always keeps a supply of blueberries on hand and the kids favorite flavors.
Peppermint Mocha Yonanas would be awesome for a holiday treat! thanks!
My family would enjoy the Blueberry Sorbet.
Blackberry Vanilla Bean yumm!
Mango raspberry sorbet
Mixed berry sorbet sounds delicious!!
I would really like to try the Yonanas Berry Cream Pie recipe.
I would love to try the Mojito Yonanas. Yum!
I would love to try making the Mixed Berry Sorbet!
The Nutella Banana sorbet sounds YUMMY! Actually I have been wanting one of these ever since I 1st saw it, thanks for the chance – great review!!!!
blueberry sorbet sounds amazing!
Tiramisu!
I would love to try Melon Sorbet
blueberry sorbet
I would love to make Apple Maple Walnut Yonanas!
Chocolate Hazelnut Yonanas
Blueberry Sorbet looks good to me.
the Tiramisu Yonanas sounds so good!
We would enjoy Blueberry Sorbet.
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we’d enjoy Tiramisu Yonanas
I would love to make some of this in my Yonanas – Blueberry Sorbet – sounds delicious
We’d like the Mojitos Yonanas recipe
Nutella and banana sounds great.
Thanks for the chance.
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I want to try the Tangerine & Strawberry Yonanas recipe.
xo
Chocolate Coconut Yonanas sounds great to me
I like the idea of Nutella and Banana.
Blueberry Sorbet looks so good!
i always need cookie recipes that use margarine instead of butter… that would be helpful. or, things that can be made to ‘hide’ the veggies. definitely recipes to hide the veggies. 🙂
I also like the Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas
my kids would flip for Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas!
We’d love the Camel Apple Yonanas recipe
I’d like the mojito yonanas
My husband and I would like the Mojito Yonanas recipe.
Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas
Blackberry Vanilla Bean sounds like an interesting recipe
I think my family would love the Berry Chocolate Zin recipe. We all love chocolate!
I want to try the grasshopper pie recipe – that would be something I haven’t made yet!
Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas – yum!!
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nutella and banana
I’d like to try the Grasshopper Pie recipe.
I would like to try the caramel apple recipe.
The caramel apple yonanas sounds interesting. I’m so impressed by the creativity of the recipes!
I WOULD TRY THE Blueberry Sorbet.
I’d love to try the Mango Raspberry Sorbet
I like the Grasshopper Pie
Mango sorbet
Mango Sorbet
I like the Grasshopper Pie
I’d love to try the peach-pineapple and the mango-raspberry sorbet. Although the grasshopper pie sounds good, too…
I think my family would love the Blueberry Pomegranate recipe.
My family would enjoy the Caramel Apple Yonanas recipe.
I think the Kiwi Sorbet recipe would be great to try!
I’d like to try the Tiramisu Yonanas recipe!
i love the Mixed Berry Pie with Chocolate Crust recipe
Grasshopper Pie
the Mango Sorbet would be delicious
I would try the Apple Maple Walnut Yonanas first. All they had to do was say “maple” and I’m hooked. 🙂
the kiwi sorbet
I am addicted to Tiramisu, so I would have to try that first. The Mojito Yonana sounds great too.
Cherry chocolate sounds amazing!
the tiramisu yonanas sounds like it would be a hit with everyone
I would make the Caramel Apple Yonanas.
My family would love making the Mango Sorbet!
Carmel apple yonanas! How seasonally appropriate
I would love to try the recipe for Mixed Berry Pie with Chocolate Crust, it looks delicious and i bet would taste yummy
Thanks for offering this awesome giveaway
My family would enjoy Cherry Chocolate.
Carmel Apple Yonanas sounds so good to many in my family.
I would love to try the Blackberry Vanilla Bean sounds yummy
I want to try the Caramel Apple Yonanas
One recipe our whole family would enjoy is the
Chai Spice Yonanas
Yum!
you had me with the Tiramisu Yonanas recipe. the family, well they have never turned down a slice of Tiramisu cake so I expect it will be good for everyone
I would like to try the Mango Raspberry Sorbet or the Melon Sorbet 🙂
I want to try yonanas grasshopper pie.
My family would love pineapple banana blueberry
I would enjoy the Berry Chocolate Zin recipe. Thanks for the giveaway!
Blackberry Vanilla Bean
Oooo I would love to try the Mango Raspberry Sorbet recipe.
I am all about apples these days, so the Apple Maple Walnut Yonanas sounds perfect!
My family would love the apple maple walnut!!
I think the Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas sounds great.
I want to try the Blackberry Vanilla Bean!
I’d like to try the Strawberry Shortcake Yonanas
The Blackberry Vanilla Bean for me! Yummy!
I went to their site and I would love to try this recipe
raspberry banana softie sounds yummm
The Apple Maple Walnut Yonanas sounds yummy!
I want to try the Mango Sorbet.
I would love to try the Berry Chocolate Zin and want to win this machine for my son and daughter-in-law
I bought one of these machine when I had a GC and a great sale. My husband is diabetic and he loves the fruit combinations he can now eat.
The apple maple walnut looks and sounds amazing and perfect for fall!!