Is ice cream food or drink?

Ice cream is a kind of volume-expanding frozen food, which is made of drinking water, milk, milk powder, cream (or vegetable oil) and sugar as main raw materials, and adding a proper amount of food additives through mixing, sterilization, homogenization, aging, freezing and hardening.

Ice cream is an attractive and delicious frozen dairy product. Nearly 800 years ago, ice cream originated in China. In the Yuan Dynasty, a shrewd grocer had a whim. He tried to add some honey, milk and pearl powder to the ice. As a result, he made the earliest ice cream in the world.

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nutritive value

Ice cream is a kind of food with high quality protein, high sugar and high fat. In addition, it also contains amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chlorine, sulfur and iron. It has the functions of regulating physiological function, maintaining osmotic pressure and pH value.

According to international and national product standards, the nutritional content of ice milk is 2.8~3 times that of milk, and its digestibility in human body can reach over 95%, which is higher than that of meat and fat.

Ice cream is very nutritious. It is rich in high-quality protein, lactose, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chlorine, sulfur, iron, amino acids, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and other bioactive substances that are extremely beneficial to human beings, and has the functions of regulating physiological functions and balancing human osmotic pressure and pH value.

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