ice cream facts

Ice Cream Facts 101
The All-Important Basics

Ice Cream Facts...What's it Made of?

It's comforting to know that ice cream is not just a bunch of ingredients mixed together and frozen under the name ice cream!

Legally, ice cream must conform to the following standards...

• Have at least 10% milkfat
• Have at least 20% milk solids
• Have at most 0.5% stabilizers
• Have at most 0.2% emulsifiers
• Adding air can only double the volume of the ice cream
• A gallon of ice cream must weigh at least 4.5 lbs

Ice Cream Facts...How Good is it?

Besides the all-important taste test, you can determine just how good ice cream is by looking at the facts!

The amount of fat and air in the ice cream determines its quality.

• Super premium ice creams: 16% fat
• Average ice creams: 12% fat
• Cheap ice creams: 50% air



• General rule: The heavier the ice cream the better it will be - because it has less air added.
• Hint: When buying ice cream, if you want to compare ice creams - compare the weight. Ice cream can be sold at a lower price when a greater amount of the ice cream is just air!

Ice Cream Facts: Why is it Soft and Frozen?

Ever look in the freezer and wonder why the ice cubes are frozen solid but the ice cream isn't?

Ice cream doesn't freeze solid because of its compostition of sugar, fat globules, ice crystals, and air.

• Dissolved sugars in the mixture lower the freezing point.
• Fat globules in ice cream give it the rich, creamy texture.
• Ice crystals trap the sugars and the fat globules within their crystalline structure.
• Little air pockets surround the ice crystalline structures, making the ice cream soft and easy to scoop. (Air is necessary, but the more air the ice cream has - the poorer the quality.)

Ice Cream Headaches

People often call it "brain freeze." The sensation usually only lasts about 30 seconds...but why does it happen in the first place?

• Everybody has a nerve center located on the roof of their mouth. When something cold touches this spot, people get the sensation known as an ice cream headache.
• It's caused by a dilation of the blood vessels in the head.
• It often occurs only in hot weather.
• Prevention: Don't stop eating ice cream!!! When eating ice cream, try to limit the amount of cold ice cream touching the roof of your mouth.

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Can ice cream help you get pregnant?

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) — High-fat dairy foods such as ice cream and whole fat milk may be better choices for women who are trying to get pregnant than low-fat dairy products such as yogurt and skim milk, a U.S. study suggests.

The eight-year study of 18,555 women, ages 24 to 42, found that those who ate two or more servings of low-fat dairy products a week were 85 percent more likely to experience ovulation-related infertility than women who ate less than one serving of low-fat dairy products a week.

Women who ate at least one serving of high-fat dairy food a week were 27 percent less likely to experience ovulation-related infertility than those who ate one serving or less of high-fat diary food a week.

The findings are published in the Feb. 28 issue of the journal Human Reproduction.

High-fat dairy foods may decrease the risk of infertility because they contain a fat-soluble substance that improves ovarian function, the study authors said.

Further research is needed to confirm or refute this link between low-fat dairy products and ovulation-related (anovulatory) infertility, noted study lead author Dr. Jorge Chavarro, a research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

"Clarifying the role of dairy foods intake on fertility is particularly important since the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that adults consume three or more daily servings of low-fat milk or equivalent dairy products, a strategy that may well be deleterious for women planning to become pregnant as it would give them an 85 percent higher risk of anovulatory infertility according to our findings," Chavarro said in a prepared statement.

Until further research findings become available, Chavarro said women who are trying to get pregnant should eat high-fat dairy products but switch back to low-fat dairy foods once they do conceive.


-- Robert Preidt, HealthDay News

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