It’s time for our annual look back at the new flavors that were introduced in 2016.
Here’s our list of 2016 new flavors:
- 16 Handles Choconut, a combination of dark chocolate and coconut milk
- 16 Handles Peanut Butter Me Up
- 16 Handles Sweet Taro Pie
- 16 Handles Cereal and Milk
- 16 Handles Pink Grapefruit Skinnygirl Sorbet
- 16 Handles AriZona Lemon Iced Tea Sorbet
- Dannon YoCream Caramelized Pineapple sorbet
- Dannon YoCream Passion Orange Guava sorbet
- Dannon YoCream Irish Cream NSA
- Dannon YoCream Creamy Limoncello gelato
- Dannon YoCream Banana Flambe gelato
- Dannon YoCream Pistachio gelato
- Dannon YoCream Hazelnut gelato
- Dannon YoCream Chocolate gelato
- Honey Hill Farms Blue Raspberry Italian Ice
- Honey Hill Farms Fruit Punch Italian Ice
- Honey Hill Farms Pomegranate Raspberry sorbet
- Honey Hill Farms Coconut Milk soft serve
- Honey Hill Farms Blueberry Soft Frozen Fruit
- Honey Hill Farms Tango Soft Frozen Fruit
- Honey Hill Farms Strawberry Banana Soft Frozen Fruit
- Honey Hill Farms Ice Cream Sandwich gelato
- Honey Hill Farms Cake Batter
- Menchie’s White Chocolate Peppermint Bark
- Menchie’s Almond Biscotti made with almond milk
- Menchie’s Chocolate Mousse made with almond milk
- Menchie’s Milk Chocolate Candy made with M&Ms
- Menchie’s Double Espresso Tiramisu
- Menchie’s Marshmallow Mania flavored with PEEPS
- Menchie’s Vanilla Latte made with Nestle Nescafe
- Menchie’s Caramel Frappe made with Nestle Nescafe
- Menchie’s Fire Toasted S’mores
- Menchie’s Smooth White Chocolate
- Menchie’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar made with Butterfinger
- Menchie’s Chocolate Candy Bar made with Nestle Crunch
- Menchie’s Tahitian Vanilla (vegan, coconut milk based)
- Menchie’s Classic Chocolate Malt made with WHOPPERS
- Menchie’s Ice Age White Freeze Sorbet
- Menchie’s Ice Age Blue Blast Sorbet
- Menchie’s Sweet Strawberry Greek
- Menchie’s Fresh Lime Mint Sorbet
- Menchie’s Strawberry Smoothie Sorbet
- Menchie’s Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice Sorbet
- Orange Leaf Spa Day Sorbet (cucumber, lemon, mint)
- Orange Leaf Strawberry Serrano Lemonade Sorbet
- Pinkberry Peppermint Cookies & Cream
- Pinkberry Pinkbee’s Ice Cream
- Pinkberry Dairy Free Coconut Milk
- Pinkberry Dairy Free Chocolate Coconut Milk
- Pinkberry Dairy Free Salted Caramel Coconut Milk
- Pinkberry New England Tiffani Faison’s sweet corn yogurt with blueberry compote and a brown sugar buttermilk crumble
- Red Mango Pistachio Mustachio
- Tutti Frutti Australia Milk Tea
- Yoga-urt Radiant Golden Rose
- Yogen Fruz Kayla’s Flavür: Mango, Strawberry, and Banana
- Yogen Fruz Creamy Vegan Coconut
- Yogen Fruz Blueberry Basil
- Yogen Fruz Mint Pina Mango
- Yogen Fruz Lychee Pear
- Yogen Fruz Mango Cheesecake
- Yogen Fruz Cherry Cheesecake
- Yogen Fruz Blueberry Cheesecake
- Yogen Fruz/Yogurty’s Banana Bread
- Yogurtland Honey Graham
- Yogurtland Pumpkin Whip
- Yogurtland Butterscotch Pudding Gelato
- Yogurtland Blueberry Mangosteen Tart
- Yogurtland Peanut Butter Caramel
- Yogurtland Caramel Apple
- Yogurtland Frosted Cookie
- Yogurtland Cinnamon Donut Holes
- Yogurtland Chocolate Covered Pretzel
- Yogurtland Lemon Cupcake
- Yogurtland Banana Cream
- Yogurtland Iced Coffee NSA
- Yogurtland Honeydew
- Yogurtland Rocky Road
- Yogurtland Cherry Tart
- Yogurtland Indonesian Chocolate Java Cake
- Yogurtland English Toffee
- Yogurtland Mango Coconut Tart
- Yogurtland Apple Strudel with Caramel
- Yogurtland Fig & Honey Gelato
- Yogurtland Horchata
- Yogurtland Dulce De Leche Cookie
- Yogurtland Kiwi Raspberry Sorbet
- Yogurtland Peanut Butter Parfait
It’s interesting to note that of the 87 new flavors, almost 40% of these were froyo alternatives, led by sorbets (12 new flavors). Froyo alternatives include soft serve gelato, Italian ice, coconut milk based soft serve, soft serve fruit, almond milk soft serve and soft serve ice cream. Most of these are dairy-free.
Honey Hill Farms introduced its first soft serve fruit flavors and one coconut milk soft serve flavor. In 2015, Pinkberry came out with its first non-dairy Just Fruit flavors. This year they introduced their first coconut milk soft serve flavors. Menchie’s had coconut milk soft serve and almond milk soft serve. Yogen Fruz introduced a coconut milk soft serve. Yogurtland and Dannon haven’t introduced alternative milk/vegan soft serve yet but they did introduce soft serve gelato flavors. Yogurtland’s gelato is probiotic.
Menchie’s had several big name partnerships, coming out with flavors made with M&Ms, PEEPS, Whoppers, Butterfinger, Nestle Crunch, and Nescafe. 16 Handles partnered with Skinnygirl and AriZona Beverages for two new flavors.
Indulgent frozen yogurt flavors remained popular, with several new peanut butter flavors, cheesecake flavors and chocolate-coconut flavors.
On the more experimental side of things, Orange Leaf introduced a spicy Strawberry Serrano sorbet. Spicy yogurt flavors were also spotted on supermarket shelves (Noosa and Chobani). Other exotic flavors included Blueberry Basil from Yogen Fruz and Blueberry Mangosteen from Yogurtland.
Acai and Greek yogurt flavors weren’t as popular as new flavors this year.
