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Natural and processed ice cream
Differences between ice cream available in stores and those created by methods artisanal, of course, are much larger than just in terms of nomenclature. Traditional Ice cream is a frozen and aerated mixture of milk or cream with sugar and sometimes eggs and flavored additions, limited basically only the imagination of the creator. Despite being high in fat and sugar, they are not especially harmful to health as they consist largely of air. Thanks to this, one scoop contains only about 70 kcal. Healthier an alternative to traditional ice cream are fruit sorbets, composed mainly of all of the frozen fruit purees, which makes them recommended especially for people who care about the line. But beware here, sorbets can often be sweetened and thus their calorific value can increase up to 145 kcal per 100 grams (i.e. about 80 kcal in one scoop). Advice – let’s check the ice cream stocks in store, if we have such an opportunity.
Item light less harmful depends on the composition of the ice cream. You can often meet also highly processed products, with a very high content of fat derivatives palm, dyes, flavors and stabilizers. The nutritional value is it higher, the more fruit, milk and natural ingredients there are in ice cream and this is usually a feature of just hand-made sweets.
Are you sure it is natural?
Unfortunately There is a problem with natural ice cream – it is not always like this natural, as their name would suggest. Substitutes in the form of ready-made ice spreads and bases significantly reduce not only production costs, but also also the nutritional value. Also fresh fruit – also during preparation artisan ice cream – they are often replaced with ready-made pastes with their flavor, a the entire preparation process is limited to mixing them in the milling machine. Unfortunately, in commercial law has not yet been regulated when ice cream can be called natural and thus this concept is sometimes overused.
Unfortunately the use of pastes can make ice cream more attractive than it really is natural. This is because of the more intense colors or a distinct taste, and consumers often just want to cool down in hot weather and do not pay attention to health and quality aspects.
Gelato – real Italian ice cream
Real Italian ice cream is not mass-produced. This is obvious, but you can do the same would say about natural ice cream, if not for the fact that it is often made as a result mixing several toothpastes purchased in the warehouse. One of the differences between gelato and other artisan ice cream is that they can never be made in stock must be produced on an ongoing basis.
They contain They also have less fat and sugar than mass-produced ice cream because Traditional ice cream contains only 4 – 8% of it, while these created on a massive scale as much as 10 – 18%! Where the ice cream really is the traditional way, ie they are made by adding fruit, also drops significantly sugar content in their composition.
Wnioski when it comes to natural ice cream, they must first and foremost concern their authenticity. If we are dealing with a delicacy prepared by hand from scratch according to the traditional recipe, it is worth paying extra for quality and health in included in it. Unfortunately, there is often only “artisanal” in natural ice cream their name, and then we let ourselves be deceived by buying a product that is not much different from those available in stores.
Jak can you recognize good quality ice cream?
Unfortunately for it won’t be easy for an unskilled foodie. Certainly natural ice cream ingredients will be more expensive, although this is not a determinant. It is worth paying attention to their consistency, as well as a pronounced cream aftertaste. Real ice cream handcraft melt faster because they do not contain emulsifiers and thickeners. In natural sorbets, however, you can see it with the naked eye see the fruit fragments. And if we are not sure – ask sellers, them it is our responsibility to inform us of what we buy.
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