Wagamama Kids Tropical Fruit Ice Lolly

Wagamama kids tropical fruit ice lolly carries just 21 kcal and is listed here at £2.70 (est.), which makes it the lightest sweet course wagamama serves to anyone, child or adult. The price needs its caveat up front: wagamama does not publish one for this lolly, so the figure on this page is our estimate, matched to the mini brownie bite, the only kids dessert the chain prices.

What arrives is a fruit ice lolly on a stick, tropical in flavour, and gone in five minutes. Wagamama publishes no ingredient breakdown beyond the name, and the numbers sketch it accurately anyway: no fat, no protein, under 5 g of sugar. That is frozen fruit juice territory, nowhere near ice cream. For a child who wants something cold rather than something rich after a bowl of noodles, it is the obvious order, and on a hot day it does more good than any of the sauced scoops beside it on the menu.

The tropical fruit ice lolly calories come to about a tenth of the mini brownie bite's count and roughly a seventh of any of the vanilla scoop options, and the sugar is less than half of what the lightest kids juice carries. Wagamama marks the lolly vegan and lists no allergens for it at all, which makes it the first dessert to consider for children with milk or egg allergies. The usual caution still applies: every wagamama kitchen is shared, so tell staff about a medical allergy before ordering rather than trusting a clean allergen line on its own. There is no gluten free marking either, short as the ingredient list clearly is, so ask if coeliac disease is the concern.

On value, anyone asking how much is the kids tropical fruit ice lolly runs into the quirk that it shares its estimated price with desserts several times its size, so a calorie counter and a bargain hunter will read the same menu differently. As a full stop to a kids meal on a warm afternoon it is unbeatable. The adults can order a banana katsu or a white chocolate and ginger cheesecake alongside, and nobody at the table ends up feeling short changed.