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Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago?
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You aren’t imagining it, they add various types of gum and additives to slow melting rates of real ice cream, and a lot of ice cream is straight up fake - “frozen dairy dessert” is a euphemism for fake ice cream often padded out with cheaper ingredients like vegetable oils.
https://www.foodandwine.com/drumstick-ice-cream-doesnt-melt-tiktok-8635415
Honestly now-a-days one of the few ways we are going to protect ourselves is to rely on the ingredients list our governments mandate and familiarize ourselves with what products are actually what they claim they are, whether they contain anything questionable, and what euphemisms they use to hide undesirable ingredients. (Hydrogenated Oil == ~~Trans~~ Saturated Fat, Natural Sweeteners == Sugar, Corn Syrup == cheap substitute for sugar)
For those of us in the US (yes I know this is world - sorry) we can only hope the brain worm dead bear boy doesn’t gut the FDA as badly as he promises, or companies are going to start adding all sorts of fun stuff to our food.
Educate yourself and your friends about “the poison squad”, fascinating story of the kinds of crazy shit they used to put in food. Copper sulfate in canned peas and such.
Just as a point of chemistry clarity, partially hydrogenated oils contain trans fat, fully hydrogenated oils do not. Partially hydrogenated oils are no longer GRAS by the FDA and shouldn’t be in any commercially sold foods, except the amount that occurs naturally in foods like butter.
Fully hydrogenated oils still have saturated fat so it’s not like it’s healthy, but it’s not as bad as trans fat.
Another NoStupidQuestion, what are trans and saturated fats anyway?
The Mayo Clinic has a good overview here that explains about the different types of fats
There's no chemistry in that article
Saturated fats are okay kinda
Trans fats never leave your body. They’re unbelievably delicious but horrid for you.
TIL - Thank you!
Oh, Jesus. I'm autistic and rely on safe foods, I can't wait for them to start killing me now
Cook meals at home when possible. You're not the only one that doesn't like what corporations do to food, autistic or not.
I'm going to start making my fries from potatoes that I will grow inside, although part of that is also just to save money on groceries
That's really awesome. Respect.
Yea, I make my own ice cream, because, well, really it's something we shouldn't be eating a lot of in the first place (mostly the sugar, but there's also this double-whammy to glycemic response when a lot of sugar is consumed with a lot of fat - ice cream).
So I'll make about a quart at a time, usually for an upcoming event. I got my first ice cream maker at a second hand store for not much, and it was a modern one with the freezable insert.
Corn syrup has wrecked ice cream for me. I can't stand it and actively avoid buying ice cream with it.
I miss the old Bryer's
It still has a bit of gum in it (hard to find without these days) but that talenti stuff in the US appears to be real cream still - honestly that’s the big kicker for me with ice cream, too much gum or any vegetable product just makes it not worth the calories 🤢
All those bryer/haggen das big brand ones have so much air whipped into them it’s like eating frozen foam. Same with most chains’ milk shakes right now, they melt into nasty foam.
I mean if they gut the regulatory agencies the companies will probably just remove the ingredient list altogether
Yep, hoping he’s not stupid enough to do that. However, on the other hand brain worms…
It's "frozen dessert" because they can't say ice cream when they take out dairy.
It's actually because icecream has a defined air and fat content, and if you leave those guidelines you stop being icecream.
For now. I fully expect rules like this to be fully rolled back so that ice cubes will be legally "ice cream".
Drag wishes they sold more fake ice cream, but unfortunately the vast majority of what you can find at the supermarket isn't vegan.