There is a small amount of alcohol present. Alcohol is a very important component of many flavours used by us – especially natural flavours. It is used to extract the flavour components from various natural ingredients. For example, vanilla flavour from vanilla beans, or strawberry flavours from strawberries. As a result there is always some alcohol present in these flavours when they are added to ice cream. Much of this alcohol would be evaporated during processing, but a small amount may remain. However, the level of alcohol in the final product is extremely low (much less than 0.1%). In some cases there are alternative flavours we could use, and where applicable we do. However, in the majority of cases we tend to use the alcohol based material for the following reasons: 1. They are usually natural flavours. 2. They have a far superior flavour delivery and are of higher quality. 3. There is no significant reason for not using them. Most, if not all, of our products will have these sm