I searched high and low to find the best quality ingredients to serve my family ice cream this holiday. The decision was easy when it came to avoiding these ingredients:
Some Ingredients to Avoid When Buying Ice Cream
- High Fructose Corn Syrup - turns to fat in your body and not the good kind. Giving up products containing HFCS will benefit your health, help control your weight, and if enough people get the message, protect the planet as well.
- Carrageenan - food additive - can cause inflammation in the body and has no nutritional value
- Natural flavors - this is a man-made additive, and it makes processed food and fast food taste outstanding.
Some other ingredients to look for include alkalized cocoa, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, vanillin, maltodextrin and dextrose, all of which involve some type of chemical processing or are simply artificial. Alkalized cocoa, for instance, involves a chemical process that changes cocoa's natural flavor, texture and chemical structure, as well as eliminates some of its acidity and healthy antioxidant content. And vanillin is just an artificial version of vanilla.
Stick with ingredients you know like cream, skim milk, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla extract.
I had 2 scoops - it was creamy and it was dreamy. I'm definitely feeling the effects today and this is why I keep this treat for very special occasions.
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