Ice Cream vs Gelato vs Frozen Yogurt— What’s the Difference?
Not to mention frozen custard, sorbet, and sherbet. Here’s a guide to your favorite summer treats.
Can you imagine a better summer day than relaxing and treating yourself to a big bowl of ice cream? Or maybe custard? Gelato?
Which brings up, what’s even the difference between all these frozen treats?
As a pre-summer activity, let’s finally dig into ice cream and all its cousins to figure out exactly how each of these frozen desserts is unique.
Ice Cream
You may be familiar with the popular kinds like chocolate and vanilla, but ice cream can be found in just about any flavor including lobster and corn on the cob.
And just how much do people love ice cream?
Well, about 16.3 billion liters of ice cream are produced worldwide each year. By country, the U.S. leads in ice cream production with an estimated 4.4 billion liters per year.
And making ice cream is no joke. In the U.S., ice cream has a legal definition, called a standard of identity, and is surrounded by several laws that dictate its composition.
