Is Mochi Vegan Friendly? (We Have the Answer!)

Written by Makena Marie in Frozen,Vegan

Is Mochi Vegan

Mochi is a sweet Japanese pillowy and chewy dessert made with glutinous rice and some sort of filling like ice cream. Mochi is also famously found in Boba tea, which has grown its popularity in the U.S. in recent years. Boba tea is a milk-tea made with small mochi beads that melt in your mouth. Is this delicious doughy treat vegan?

Mochi is vegan, as it typically consists of glutinous rice and red bean paste. However, Mochi Ice Cream may not be vegan if dairy is used. In recent years, more brands have released vegan versions of Mochi, such as My/Mo Mochi Cashew Cream Frozen Dessert. The best vegan and healthier alternative to Mochi is Coconut Bliss Frozen Desert Sandwich.  

In this article, we will review several Mochi ice cream brands and their nutritional content, as well as a few delicious alternatives to Mochi ice cream. Read on to learn more about this popular Japanese dessert!

Non-Vegan Mochi Ice Cream Nutritional Information

Mochi comes in all shapes, sizes, and flavors! In the U.S., mochi is most commonly found in ice cream form and in Mochi boba which we will explore in this article.  

Bubbies Triple Chocolate Mochi Ice Cream

Bubbies Chocolate Mochi is certified gluten free and kosher. However, it is not vegan as it contains milk, cream, and eggs. 

Ingredients:

  • Chocolate Chip Ice Cream 
  • Non-Fat Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Cocoa [Processed with Alkali], Chocolate Chips [Semisweet Chocolate {Cane Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Dextrose} and Sunflower Lecithin], Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum, Natural Flavor)
  • Mochi Dough (Cane Sugar, Rice Flour, Water, Tapioca Syrup (Tapioca Water, Salt, Vanilla), Egg Whites, Cocoa Powder [Processed with Alkali]).

Nutrition Facts (1 mochi 35g):

  • 90 Calories
  • 3 g Total Fat
  • 2 g Saturated Fat 
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 10 mg Cholesterol
  • 15 mg Sodium
  • 16 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 1 g Dietary Fiber
  • 11 g Sugars
  • 1 g Protein

Bubbies Strawberry Mochi Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Non-Fat Milk
  • Cream
  • Cane Sugar
  • Strawberries
  • Natural Flavor
  • Contains 2% or Less of the Following:
    • Pectin 
    • Citric Acid
    • Ascorbic Acid
    • Locust Bean Gum
    • Guar Gum
    • Beet Extract

Nutrition Facts (1 mochi 35 grams):

  • 90 Calories
  • 2grams Total Fat
  • 1 grams Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 10g Cholesterol
  • 15 mg Sodium
  • 16 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 10 g Total Sugars

Bubbies Vanilla Mochi Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Vanilla Ice Cream (Non-Fat Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Egg Yolks, Vanilla Extract, Locust Bean Gum and Guar Gum)
  • Mochi Dough (Cane Sugar, Rice Flour, Water, Tapioca Syrup [Tapioca, Water, Salt, Vanilla] Egg Whites)

Nutrition Facts (1 mochi 35g):

  • 900 Calories
  • 3.5 g Total Fat
  • 2.5 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 15 mg Cholesterol
  • 15 mg Sodium
  • 14 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0 g Dietary Fiber
  • 10 g Total Sugars

Bubbies Green Tea Mochi Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Green Tea Ice Cream (Non-Fat Milk, Cream, Cane Sugar, Green Tea, Locust Bean Gum and Guar Gum)
  • Mochi Dough (Cane Sugar, Rice Flour, Water, Tapioca Syrup [Tapioca, Water, Salt, Vanilla] Egg Whites, Natural Flavor)

Nutrition Facts (1 mochi 35 grams):

  • 90 Calories
  • 3 grams Total Fat
  • 2 grams Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 5g Cholesterol
  • 10 mg Sodium
  • 15 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 10 g Total Sugars
  • 1 g Protein 

My Mochi Ice Cream (Non-Vegan)

My Mochi is made with real fruit and real milk, and no soy products. It’s a real “pillow & creamy” ice cream treat that will melt in your mouth! While most of My Mochi products contain dairy and eggs, they also have a variety of vegan mochi made with oats which will be discussed later on.

My Mochi Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Ice cream Ingredients:
    • Milk
    • Cream
    • Cane Sugar
    • Strawberry Puree (Strawberries, Sugar, Water, Natural Flavor, Salt) 
    • Whey 
    • Nonfat Dry Milk 
    • Stabilizer (Locust Bean gum, Guar Gum) 
    • Natural Flavor 
    • Citric Acid 
    • Beet Juice Concentrate 
  • Mochi Ingredients:
    • Cane Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Egg Whites
    • Trehalose
    • Rice Flour

Nutrition Facts (1 piece):

  • 100 Calories
  • 2.5 g Total Fat
  • 1.5 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 10 mg Cholesterol
  • 15 mg Sodium
  • 18 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0 g Dietary Fiber
  • 14 g Total Sugars
  • 1 g Protein
  • 157 mg Calcium 
  • 1 mcg Vitamin D 
  • 1 mg Iron 
  • 296 mg Potassium 

My Mochi Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Ice Cream Ingredients:
    • Milk
    • Cream
    • Cane Sugar
    • Whey
    • Nonfat Dry Milk
    • Stabilizer (Locust Bean Gum, Guar Gum)
    • Natural Flavor
    • Ground Vanilla Beans
  • Mochi Dough Ingredients:
    • ​​Cane Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Egg Whites
    • Trehalose
    • Rice Flour

Nutrition Facts (1 piece):

  • 100 Calories
  • 3 g Total Fat
  • 2 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 10 mg Cholesterol 
  • 15 mg Sodium 
  • 17 g Total Carbohydrates 
  • 13 g Total Sugars 
  • 1 g Protein

Vegan Mochi Flavors

As we’ve seen, mochi ice cream and boba tea are not traditionally vegan. However, there are now many plant-based dairy free mochi and boba products that cater to all the vegans who love mochi as much as the rest of the world.

My/Mo Mochi Cashew Cream Frozen Dessert

Ingredients:

  • Frozen Dessert:
    • Cashew Milk (Water, Cashews, Canola Oil)
    • Sugar
    • Strawberry Puree (Strawberries, Sugar, Water, Natural Flavor, Salt)
    • Natural Strawberry Flavor
    • Natural Flavors
    • Stabilizer (Gum Acacia, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum)
    • Citric Acid
    • Beet Juice Concentrate (Color)
    • Sea Salt
    • Malic Acid
  • Mochi Dough:
    • Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Trehalose
    • Corn Starch
    • Beet Juice Concentrate (Color)
    • Citric Acid

Nutritional Information (1 piece) :

  • 100 Calories 
  • 2g Total Fat 2g
  • 0g Saturated Fat
  • 0g Trans Fat
  • 0mg Cholesterol
  • 15 mg Sodium
  • 19g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0g Dietary Fiber
  • 14g Total Sugars
  • 1g Protein

My Mochi Strawberry Oat Milk Ice Cream

My Mochi Vegan products are certified non-dairy, gluten-free, kosher, nut free and contain no soy products. 

Ingredients:

  • Ice Cream Ingredients: 
    • Oat Milk (Water, Whole Grain Oats)
    • Cane Sugar
    • Strawberry Puree (Strawberries, Sugar, Water, Natural Flavor, Salt)
    • Tapioca Syrup
    • Coconut Oil
    • Brown Rice
    • Stabilizer (Gum Acacia, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum)
    • Natural Strawberry Flavor
    • Citric Acid
    • Sea Salt
  • Mochi Dough Ingredients:
    • Cane Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Rice Flour
    • Enzyme
    • Beet Juice Concentrate (Color)
    • Citric Acid

Nutrition Facts (1 piece):

  • 100 Calories
  • 2 g Total Fat
  • 2 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 0 mg Cholesterol 
  • 5 mg Sodium 
  • 19 g Total Carbohydrates 
  • 13 g Total Sugars 
  • 11 g Added Sugars 
  • 1 g Protein

My Mochi Salted Carmel Oat Milk Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Ice Cream Ingredients: 
    • Oat Milk (Water, Whole Grain Oats)
    • Cane Sugar
    • Tapioca Syrup
    • Coconut Oil
    • Brown Rice
    • Natural Flavors
    • Stabilizer (Gum Acacia, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum)
    • Caramel Color
    • Sea Salt 
  • Mochi Dough Ingredients: 
    • Cane Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Rice Flour
    • Enzyme
    • Caramel Color 

Nutrition Facts (1 piece):

  • 100 Calories
  • 2.5 g Total Fat
  • 2 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 0 mg Cholesterol 
  • 35 mg Sodium 
  • 18 g Total Carbohydrates 
  • 13 g Total Sugars 
  • 11 g Added Sugars 
  • 1 g Protein
  • 3 mg Calcium 
  • 10 mg Potassium 

My Mochi Salted Neapolitan Oat Milk Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Ice Cream Ingredients: 
    • Oat Milk (Water, Whole Grain Oats)
    • Strawberry Filling (Strawberries, Cane Sugar, Water, Corn Starch, Natural Flavors, Fruit and Vegetable Juice [Color], Titanium Dioxide [Color], Pectin, Locust Bean Gum)
    • Cane Sugar
    • Tapioca Syrup
    • Coconut Oil
    • Brown Rice
    • Natural Vanilla Flavor
    • Natural Flavors
    • Stabilizer (Gum Acacia, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum)
    • Ground Vanilla Beans
    • Sea Salt
  • Mochi Dough Ingredients: 
    • Cane Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Rice Flour
    • Natural Flavors
    • Purple Carrot Juice
    • Caramel Color
    • Enzyme
    • Beet Juice Concentrate
    • Citric Acid

Nutrition Facts (1 piece):

  • 100 Calories
  • 2 g Total Fat
  • 1.5 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 0 mg Cholesterol 
  • 30 mg Sodium 
  • 19 g Total Carbohydrates 
  • 13 g Total Sugars 
  • 11 g Added Sugars 
  • 1 g Protein
  • 3 mg Calcium 
  • 10 mg Potassium 

My Mochi Salted Chocolate Oat Milk Ice Cream

Ingredients:

  • Ice Cream Ingredients: 
    • Oat Milk (Water, Whole Grain Oats)
    • Cane Sugar
    • Tapioca Syrup
    • Coconut Oil
    • Cocoa Processed with Alkali
    • Brown Rice, Stabilizer (Gum Acacia, Guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum)
    • Natural Vanilla Flavor
    • Natural Flavors
    • Sea Salt
  • Mochi Dough Ingredients: 
    • Cane Sugar
    • Water
    • Sweet Rice Flour
    • Rice Flour
    • Purple Carrot Juice
    • Caramel Color
    • Enzyme
    • Beet Juice Concentrate
    • Citric Acid

Nutrition Facts (1 piece):

  • 100 Calories
  • 2.5 g Total Fat
  • 0 g Saturated Fat
  • 5 g Trans Fat
  • 0 mg Cholesterol 
  • 5 mg Sodium 
  • 19 g Total Carbohydrates
  • 1 g Dietary Fiber  
  • 12 g Total Sugars 
  • 12 g Added Sugars 
  • 1 g Protein
  • 3 mg Calcium 
  • 18 mg Potassium 

Vegan Alternatives to Mochi

Coconut Bliss Frozen Dessert Sandwich, Madagascan Vanilla Bean

Ingredients:

  • Organic Coconut Milk
  • Water
  • Organic Coconut
  • Organic Guar Gum (Certified Organic)
  • Organic Coconut Syrup (Certified Organic)
  • Organic Coconut Cream (Certified Organic)
  • Organic Vanilla Extract (Certified Organic)
  • Organic Vanilla Beans (Certified Organic)

Nutritional Information (1 piece):

  • 180 Calories 
  • 11g Total Fat 
  • 9g Saturated Fat
  • 0g Trans Fat
  • 0mg Cholesterol
  • 10mg Sodium
  • 18g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0g Dietary Fiber
  • 11g Total Sugars
  • 2g Protein

Coolhaus Dairy Free Cookie Dough Lyfe Ice cream Sandwich

Coolhaus is a women-led and founded company that offers an alternative ice cream sandwich treat made with real non-GMO ingredients with no bovine growth hormones. 

Ingredients:

  • Non-GMO Yellow Peas
  • Organic Whole Grain Brown Rice
  • Organic Cocoa Butter
  • Organic Cane Sugar
  • Non-GMO Brown Sugar
  • Water, Molasses
  • Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
  • Salt
  • Organic Safflower Oil
  • Non-GMO Cookie Dough Flake (Wheat Flour, Brown Sugar, Cane Sugar, RSPO-certified Palm Oil
  • Powdered Cane Sugar [Cane Sugar, Corn Starch]
  • Coconut Oil
  • Water,
  • Cocoa Processed with Alkali
  • Cocoa
  • Tapioca Syrup
  • Salt
  • Sunflower Oil
  • Baking Soda
  • Sunflower Lecithin
  • Vanilla Extract
  • Guar Gum
  • Carob Bean Gum
  • Acacia Gum

Nutrition Facts (1 serving, 120 g):

  • 280 Calories
  • 11 g Total Fat
  • 2.5 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 0 mg Cholesterol
  • 150 mg Sodium
  • 43 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 3 g Dietary Fiber
  • 40 g Total Sugars
  • 0 g Added Sugars
  • 2 g Protein

Tofutti Cuties Chocolate Snack Size Sandwiches

Tofutti offers a delicious dairy free chocolate ice cream sandwich made with a tofu base. 

Ingredients:

  • Water
  • Sugar
  • Corn Syrup Solids
  • Contains one or more of the following Oils (Corn, Soy, Coconut, and Palm)
  • Soy Protein
  • Tofu
  • Cocoa Processed with Alkali
  • Cocoa Butter
  • Vanilla
  • Soy Lecithin
  • Guar Seed Gum
  • Carrageenan
  • Carob Bean Gum
  • Salt
  • Wafer: Unbleached Wheat Flour, Sugar, Caramel Color, Soybean Oil, Yellow Corn Flour, Cocoa processed with Alkali, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Baking Soda, Vegetable Mono and Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin

Nutrition Facts (1 sandwich):

  • 130 Calories
  • 6 g Total Fat
  • 1 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 16 mg Cholesterol
  • 110 mg Sodium
  • 16 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0 g Dietary Fiber
  • 9 g Total Sugars
  • 2 g Protein

Boba Milk Tea Mochi Nutritional Information

Boba Milk tea is a popular milk tea drink that contains small mochi balls that melt in your mouth. 

Yuki Love Boba

Yuki Love Boba Milk Tea Mochi Bag Ingredients:

  • Maltose
  • Milk Tea Flavor Paste (Sword Bean, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Maltose, Artificial Flavor) 
  • Sugar
  • Acetylated Distarch Phosphate
  • Hydroxypropyl 
  • Distarch Phosphate
  • Brown Sugar 
  • Cocoa Powder
  • Preservative (Potassium Sorbate) 
  • Glycerin Fatty Acid Ester 
  • Artificial Flavor 

Nutrition Facts (1.06 oz., 30g):

  • 100 Calories
  • 1 g Total Fat
  • 0 g Saturated Fat
  • 0 g Trans Fat
  • 0 mg Cholesterol
  • 5 mg Sodium
  • 23 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0 g Dietary Fiber
  • 15 g Total Sugars
  • 10 g Added Sugars

Royal Family Bubble Milk Tea Mochi

Royal Family Bubble Milk Tea Mochi 8.4oz (240g) large pack Individually wrapped- japenese taiwanese boba pearl tapioca drink sweet rice wagashi snack dessert dagashi brown sugar cake candy(1 Pack) Ingredients:

  • Sugar
  • Maltose
  • Glutinous Rice (13.41%)
  • Trehalose

Nutrition Facts (100g):

  • 261 Calories
  • 5.8 g Total Fat
  • 3.1 g Saturated Fat 
  • 0 mg Cholesterol
  • 76.1 g Total Carbohydrate
  • 0 g Dietary Fiber
  • 20.2 g Added Sugars
  • 1.5 g Protein

Takeaway

Most mochi treats and products on the market are loaded with sugar and other additives. So, it is best to moderate consumption as these treats are not exactly healthy, and can be highly addicting. When looking for healthy ice cream alternatives, it is best to look for sorbets or fruit-based treats that are sweetened naturally and avoid processed sugars. 

Related Questions

Is mochi gluten-free?

Mochi is gluten-free as it is made with rice. 

Is mochi halal?

Mochi is halal. Always look for the certification on the label to ensure it meets required standards. 

Is mochi keto-friendly?

Mochi is high in carbs and sugar and does not fit into a keto diet. 

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Makena Marie

Makena Marie is a plant-based Chef, recipe developer, food photographer, and freelance writer based on Maui, Hawaii. Makena believes in a whole food plant-based diet that focuses on local organic ingredients. Makena has a BA in International Relations and Environmental Sustainability with a concentration in food and agricultural studies. She believes that a healthy diet is connected to a healthy relationship with the environment and local farmers. She is passionate about traveling and exploring global food cultures, where she finds her inspiration to create beautiful healthy plant-based recipes. Makena ascribes to the famous Pythagoras quote, “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine by thy food."

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