Love and Quiches Desserts adds new Greek yogurt cheesecake to its line.

While ice cream unit sales are struggling, despite many flavor innovations, frozen puddings and pies have seen promising growth, and frozen yogurt continues to soar.

Blue Bell, Brenham, Texas, added Gingerbread House to its holiday favorites ice cream line. This flavor features cinnamon ice cream, gingerbread pieces, colored sprinkles, miniature marshmallows with a vanilla icing swirl.

Dairy Enterprises Inc., Orrville, Ohio, has expanded its Ruggles line to include low-fat Greek frozen yogurt in six flavors — original tart, vanilla bean, peach, honey, blueberry and strawberry.

Dallas-based Kaurina’s introduces a frozen dessert street food from India called kulfi.

Philip R’s Frozen Desserts made headlines in 2010 with its award-winning Lollibons (picture an ice cream lollipop or a cake pop on a stick). The Swiss vanilla almond Lollibon was selected as a silver finalist for Outstanding Perishable Foodservice Product in the 2010 sofi Awards from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade. In 2011, the novelty received a top award from the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product contest in the creative and innovative class.

Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals and Roquette sign European exclusive agreement for the sales ofmicroalgae-derived food ingredients, starting with Whole Algalin Flour. This unique, whole food ingredient significantly improves nutritional profile of foods, substantially reduces calorie and fat content without sacrificing taste or texture.

Digestive health is the basis of all good nutrition. Many foods promote digestive health through the consumption of live and active bacteria (that is, “pro-biotics”) in conjunction with pro-biotic-friendly (meaning “pre-biotic”) ingredients. This allows for secondary beneficial effects related to blood sugar control, reduced serum lipids, increases in intestinal microflora and other healthful benefits.

When the weather outside gets frightful, it’s a sign to finalize your new flavor innovations for the upcoming ice cream season.

Chocolate milk is one consumer favorite in the midst of an identity crisis. Long a staple of most children’s school lunch, chocolate milk has been banned.