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Some facts about Ice Cream

 Fifty years ago people ate ice cream only in summer. Now it is eaten all the year round. It originated in the East, and centuries ago, British school boys tasted it for the first time. Marco Polo saw people eating ice cream there and bringing the idea back to Italy. Starting in Italy, the idea came to France, which became very popular in the rich people in France and even tried to keep the recipes secret.  But, of course, they soon learned that this delicious new food and ice cream began to be popular with everyone.

The first factory to produce ice cream began production in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851. However the real development of ice cream and the ice cream business didn’t take place until after 1900 with new developments in refrigeration. The basic ingredients of all ice cream is cream, milk or milk solids, sugar, and sometimes eggs. Add vanilla, chocolate, berries, fruit ingredients and nuts as a flavor.

This is the usual proportion of ingredients in ice cream: about 80 to 85 percent milk products, 15 percent sugar, half to four and a half percent flavoring, and three-tenths of one percent stabiliser. A small amount of gelatin is used in order to retain the smoothness of the ice cream by preventing the formation of ice crystals. When you eat a one-third pint of vanilla ice cream, you get as much calcium, protein and vitamin B and vitamin A as a half cup of whole milk.