date:Jan 23, 2013
ids, which also function as a sweetening agent in ice cream, have tended to be relatively stable in price. In the short term, neither of these ingredients changed in price from a week ago.
A year ago in mid-January, the vanilla ice cream index in Food Business News was 127.1, compared with 119.1 as of Jan. 11, 2013. That represents a 6% year-over-year decline in the overall price of vanilla ice cream.
The cost of vanilla extract, which isnt included in the ingredient index for vanilla ice crea