The Cold Facts About Ice Cream

By Marquerite Velasquez


The average American eats approximately 20 quarts of ice cream every year according to statistics, and this can be due to the fact that ice cream is one of the most popular sweet treats in the country. There are wide varieties of these ice cream products available in your local ice cream shops and also in the grocery stores in your locality, and the following are some facts about these products.

In order to officially be labeled as ice cream, this treat must contain 10% or more of milk fat. Generally sweeteners account for an additional 12 to 16% of the product's ingredients, but one of the main ingredients in ice cream is actually air. Ice milk is a similar product, but this is a treat that contains less than 10% of milk fat. Sometimes this is labeled as low-fat ice cream and it is not only lower in fat, it's also typically cheaper. The sugar or sweetener amount in ice milk and ice cream is about the same.

A product containing less milk fat compared to ice cream but containing more sugar or sweetener than ice milk or ice cream is sherbet, a product that is also a frozen treat. A frozen dessert product from frozen fruit juice or sweetened fruit puree is called sorbet, and this is also a frozen treat you can find in your local ice cream stores. For those who do not eat dairy products, this can be a nice alternate, although this is not truly ice cream.

Aside from the above mentioned products, there are also other treats similar to ice cream, like if we will mention, is the frozen custard. This is a product with the cream and sugar like in ice cream, but is a product containing eggs. This product, when frozen, can be denser compared to that with ice cream. This is a frozen product invented in the early 20th century in Coney Island and the founders were two ice cream vendors who realized that when eggs were added to the product, the texture of the ice cream improved and the addition seemed to help this product stay cold for periods much longer.

A product that is a favorite in Italy for long is gelato, and this is also a product loved by Americans. In Italian, gelato is the actual word for ice cream and is also similar to American ice cream, but this is a product with less air. Egg yolks are sometimes added, making the product more of custard that is frozen and there are versions such as zabaione, a gelato-type product containing sweet wine.

If you are searching for the best ice cream treats in the Los Angeles area, head over to YoKuMon, a unique Culver City ice cream shop. This ice cream store offers a gourmet ice cream cookie sandwich priced at just $2. The ice cream in this product is rich and creamy and the cookies that the sandwiches are made of are the freshly baked throughout the day. Different varieties of the cookies are available and also you can pair your favorite cookies with your favorite flavor of ice cream to create the ideal ice cream sandwich for you.




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