What is Ice Cream

Ice cream is an enormously popular food. The term ice cream in its broadest sense covers a wide range of different types of frozen dessert. The main ones are 

What these all have in common is that they are sweet, flavoured, contain ice and, unlike any other frozen food, are normally eaten in the frozen state. 

The legal definition of ice cream varies from country to country. In the UK ice cream is defined as a frozen food product containing a minimum of 5% fat and 7.5% milk solids other than fat (i.e. protein, sugars and minerals), which is obtained by heat-treating and 

To describe the science of ice cream, it is first necessary to describe some of the physical chemistry and colloid science that underpins it these are laid out in Chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 cover the ingredients and the ice cream making process respectively. Chapter 5 focuses on the production of various types of ice cream product. The physical and sensory measurements used to quantify and describe it are discussed in Chapter 6, and the micro structure, and its relationship to the texture, is examined in Chapter 7. Finally, Chapter 8 describes a number of 

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