Here's the skinny on eight budget-friendly brands of vanilla ice cream -- still the most popular flavor -- including one vegan option and the best overall.

Plain as it is, vanilla is the nation's favorite ice-cream flavor. Our expert tasters tried 19 (including gelatos), separating the yum from the ho-hum. For ice-cream lovers who venture beyond ...

We ranked 18 Oui by Yoplait French-style yogurt flavors and found that one tasted remarkably similar to Ben & Jerry's ...

But heat can lead to a melted mess when you're trying to enjoy an ice-cream cone. We tested five major brands of vanilla ice cream: Baskin-Robbins, Ben & Jerry's, Friendly's, Häagen- Dazs ...

After sampling eight different vanilla varieties, we named a winner — plus found a few more pints worth picking up at the grocery store. When selecting which ice cream brands to try, we chose ...