Millet Based Ice-cream

Brain freezes, heart melts whenever I hear ice-cream. No weather or climate is too cold for ice-cream. From centuries it was an all-time favorite to all ages in the world. No one can say stop for an extra scoop.

- Korlapu Kousalya and Supreetha S

Ice-cream is a frozen dairy product, which is a colloidal mixture of milk fat, milk protein, sugar, and air. According to the FSSAI (2006), Ice cream, kulfi, chocolate ice cream or softy ice cream means, “the product obtained by freezing a pasteurized mix prepared from milk and /or other products derived from milk with or without the addition of nutritive sweetening agents, fruit and fruit products, eggs and egg products, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, condiments, spices, ginger, and nuts and may be frozen hard or frozen to a soft consistency”.

The history of ice cream dates back to 500 B.C. For preparation of 1 gallon of ice-cream, about 12 pounds of milk is required. Chocolate ice-cream is the earliest one where vanilla was invented in 1700s. Vadilal Gandhi, founder of Vadilal ice-cream was the first person to introduce the product in India. An ice-cream with stretchy, chewy structure termed Booza of Eastern Levant region is considered as the oldest ice-cream. Highest icecream consumer in the world is America with 23 liters of ice-cream per person per year. When it comes to nutrition, icecream provides vitamin A, vitamin D, selenium, and zinc which helps in improving the immune system. There are around 1000 different flavors of ice-cream are existing from chocolate, vanilla to avocado.