Monday, January 27, 2014

The Cold Facts About Ice Cream

By Marquerite Velasquez


While you probably already knew that ice cream was one of the most popular sweet treats in the United States, you might not realize that the average American eats about 20 quarts of ice cream each year. Your local ice cream shop as well as the local grocery store sells a wide variety of ice cream and related treats and here are some facts about these tasty treats.

Ice cream contains 10 percent or more of milk fat, and this should be fulfilled in order for the product to be labeled ice cream. One of the main product ingredients in ice cream is actually air, although sweeteners make up additional 12 to 16 percent of the ingredients in the product. A product containing less than 10 percent of the milk fat is called ice milk, although this is a product much like ice cream. This product is cheaper aside from being lower in milk fat, such that this product is labeled as low fat ice cream. Ice milk and ice cream have about the same amounts of sugar or sweeteners though.

Sherbet, on the other hand, is another popular frozen treat, and like ice milk, sherbet contains less milk fat than ice cream, but more sweetener or sugar than either ice milk or ice cream. Sorbet is another treat you might find at the local ice cream shop, but this is a frozen dessert made from frozen fruit juice or fruit puree that has been sweetened. While it isn't ice cream, it's a nice option for those who do not eat dairy.

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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