• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Question: Only ice-cream made with milk can be labelled as ice-cream in my country (India). If it doesn’t use milk, it has to be labelled as frozen dessert. Do other countries have similar regulation?

    • aeharding@vger.social
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      3 hours ago

      The labeling is heavily regulated, it must contain a certain amount of actual cream too. Unfortunately shit tier “frozen desert” can be sold on the same shelf intermingled with the good stuff.

      And the marketing doesn’t help either.

      But it is very easy to check for the initiated bc it wont be labeled as ice cream. And easy to check ingredient list too. When I buy ice cream, I only buy when the first ingredient is actual cream.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      15 hours ago

      Per the USDA:

      | Ice cream shall contain at least 1.6 pounds of total solids to the gallon, weigh not less than 4.5 pounds to the gallon, and contain not less than 20 percent total milk solids, constituted of not less than 10 percent milkfat. In no case shall the content of milk solids not fat be less than 6 percent. Whey shall not, by weight, be more than 25 percent of the milk solids not fat.

      Not only must it contain milk, but the amount of milk and milk fat per unit volume is regulated in the United States.

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      15 hours ago

      I think the non-milky ones are usually called sorbets, but for example small fruity ice creams on sticks we still can ice creams and these don’t have milk. So I guess my answer is no we don’t (in Europe).