Weekend Food Update: Ice-cream alternative

Sugar-free sweeteners, caffeine-less coffee, cream-free butter, meatless burgers. Whatever next? As of next week, ice-cream. David Mintz says he invented his dairy-free alternative after praying in the cellar of his Brooklyn delicatessen for a kosher alternative to ice-cream; then he put bean curd in the ice-cream maker. Tofutti was born.

The result is more convincing than one might imagine. It will soon be in branches of Asda, Europa and 7-Elevens across Britain.