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Water ices and sorbets (a.k.a. “sorbetto” when presented for sale/consumption alongside gelato) can be considered sherbets without dairy ingredients. Water ices are compositions of water, sugar, corn syrup, and color/flavor. Sorbets are “upscale water ices” using fruit primarily as the source of solids.
It’s “ice” cream for heaven’s sake — the only food designed, formulated, manufactured, stored, distributed and sold with the express intent to be consumed frozen. It’s not frozen pizza, nor a pack of frozen peas, Ice cream is different.
As an ingredient in frozen desserts, milkfat is critical when delivering sensory appeal and resistance to heat shock. The actual percentage of milkfat depends on a number of factors, including regulatory considerations, nutrition fact objectives and sensory appea. Learn more from ice cream gurus, Steven Young and Bill Sipple.
While vanilla, chocolate and vanilla/chocolate-based flavors are often times the core of frozen desserts, ice cream gurus Steve Young and Bill Sipple discuss ways to help fruit-flavored ice creams, frozen yogurts, sherbets and sorbets shine with strawberry, raspberry and orange.
The reduction or elimination of lactose in ice cream and other frozen dairy desserts goes back to well before the simple declaration(s) of “low carb” in the early 2000s.
The laws of chemistry and physics have not changed since the Big Bang. Not all these laws are known, and we continually learn more, leveraging novel approaches, processes, and/or formulations to create truly new products.
We often comment as to whether frozen desserts actually need emulsifiers or stabilizers. After all, for many years, some of the most notable ice creams have been produced completely without the use of any added stabilization.