Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or … See more

Ice cream is a colloidal emulsion made with water, ice, milk fat, milk protein, sugar and air. Water and fat have the highest proportions by weight creating an emulsion that has dispersed phase as fat globules. The emulsi… See more

Before the development of modern refrigeration, ice cream was a luxury reserved for special occasions. Making it was quite laborious; ice was cut from lakes and ponds during the winter and stored in holes in th… See more

Ice cream can be mass-produced and thus is widely available in developed parts of the world. Ice cream can be purchased in large cartons (vats and squrounds) from supermarkets and grocery stores, in smaller qua… See more

Many countries have regulations controlling what can be described as ice cream.
In the U.S., the FDA rules state that to be described as "ice cream", a product must have the following composition:
• greater … See more

Ice cream is considered a colloidal system. It is composed by ice cream crystals and aggregates, air that does not mix with the ice cream by forming small bubbles in the bulk and partially coalesced fat globules. This disper… See more