Ice cream caloric content

Ice cream – the dessert product representing the frozen sweet weight which is prepared from dairy products with addition of various nutritional supplements and fragrances. For the first time ice cream appeared in China, about 4000 years ago. At that time ice cream represented a dessert which was prepared from the snow and ice mixed with pieces of a lemon and orange and strewed from above with grains of garnets.

Are a part of modern ice cream:

• Milk;
• Sugar;
• Cream;
• Oil;
• Flavoring and aromatic substances;
• Various nutritional supplements which provide the necessary consistence and a period of storage of this product.

Ice cream caloric content rather high, the content of fats and carbohydrates in some types of this dessert reaches 20%. Therefore to the people aiming to get rid of excess weight, observing the principles of healthy nutrition, it is necessary to limit its use.

Usually producers specify on packaging what contents in ice cream of calories, proteins, fats and carbohydrates and also what ingredients and additives are its part. Ice cream happens soft and tempered. Soft ice cream is sold by weight as the term of its storage is quite limited.

Produce ice cream of a different form and in different packaging: on shelves in shops it is possible to meet ice cream in briquettes, plastic, paper or wafer cups, rolls and horns, and also cakes ice creams. In cafe and restaurants this product is decorated often with pieces of chocolate, berries and fruit, it is watered with syrups for every taste and strewed with a nut crumb. On its basis cook milkshakes which, despite that how many calories in ice cream, enjoy wide popularity.

How many calories in ice cream?

There are following types of ice cream which caloric content depends on the ingredients added to them, namely:

• Sorbet (water-ice) – the soft ice cream made on the basis of juice, fruit and berries;
• Creamy ice cream – the dessert made on the basis of animal and vegetable fats;
• Fruit ice – firm ice cream on a stick which is made of juice of various fruit without addition of milk and cream;
• Melorin – ice cream on the basis of vegetable fats.

To know the caloric content of frozen this or that look especially important that who keeps to a diet and wishes to get rid of extra kilos. The largest caloric content ice cream ice cream has. Cream, butter and flavoring additives (nuts, chocolate or fruit) are a part of original French ice cream. On average ice cream for 15-20% consists of milk fat, the content of carbohydrates in it approximately same.

Ice cream caloric content ice cream without flavoring additives makes 232 kcal on 100 g of a product. Ice cream caloric content ice cream with addition of chocolate, nuts or fruit fluctuates from 250 to 325 kcal. The human body well acquires this product, in particular, if it is made of natural components. To contain in it proteins, fats and carbohydrates, vitamins A, B, D, E and P, and also mineral substances and various microelements.

Caloric content of frozen creamy "Eskimo" depending on the compounding used by the producer averages 180-190 kcal on 100 g. Contains in vanilla ice cream of calories about 160, milk – 126 kcal, vanilla and chocolate – 140 kcal, and in fruit – 170 kcal.

Caloric content of ice cream souffle makes 116 kcal, in sorbet, depending on structure, can contain from 60 to 140 kcal. The most dietary sorbet from orange, grapefruit and a lemon is considered, even the most zealous adherents of dietary food can safely use it.

On 100 g of a product on average contains in creamy ice cream of calories 165 if chocolate or nuts were added to it, caloric content increases up to 220 kcal.

Ice cream caloric content in the form of fruit ice makes 87 kcal that does possible to use this dessert even that who keeps the rigid diet.

Diet on ice cream

It is known that any monodiet in short terms can help to achieve enough powerful results. Literally in a week it is possible to dump 3-5 kg, however such bystry weight loss has a number of shortcomings. First, not everyone will be able to use within a week for breakfast, a lunch and a dinner the same product. Secondly, chances of failure after such diet, and as a result, return of the lost weight with several more extra kilos are high.

The diet on ice cream was tried by many, some it helped to get rid of a small amount of excess weight, however cannot bring essential results.

Long it is impossible to adhere to such monodiet as unbalanced food can lead to negative effects:

• Metabolism delay;
• Replacement of muscle bulk of a body by a fatty layer;
• Deterioration in the constitution;
• Increase in appetite from what failures after which all lost weight is returned are often observed.

Therefore not to exert harmful impact on health, no more than 7 days are recommended to keep to a diet on ice cream.

There are two options of a diet on ice cream. The first option is that the person for day uses only ice cream which caloric content does not exceed 200 kcal, at the same time receptions write there have to be 5. As a result in a day only 1000 kcal come to an organism at the expense of what there is a weight reduction as the organism receives less energy.

In the second option of a diet ice cream is not a key product of food, and it is rather – a tasty dessert which in a certain quantity can be afforded, even aiming to lose weight.

The diet of the second option of a diet on ice cream has the following appearance:

• Breakfast – 200 g of salad from fresh cabbage and 100 g of skim cheese;
• Afternoon snack – 70 g of ice cream which caloric content does not exceed 120 kcal;
• Lunch – 200 g of ragout from vegetable marrows, 250 ml of the vegetable soup cooked on mushroom or chicken broth, 20 g of dark whole-grain bread;
• Dinner – 150 g of boiled chicken breast or fish of low-fat grades, 150 g of salad from fresh vegetables and greens.

Observing any of options of such diet, it is necessary to use not less than 1,5 l of the purified drinking water a day. It is recommended to adhere to the second option of this system of weight loss no more than 5 days as long stay on such diet can do considerable harm to health and reduce efficiency of the person.

Ice cream – a favourite delicacy both adults, and children of all times and the people. Caloric content of ice cream creamy and chocolate is especially high therefore you should not abuse these types of a dessert, in particular that who aims to get rid of excess weight. The diet at which observance it is authorized to use for all day only ice cream is a monodiet. Therefore, considerable results, adhering to the principles of this dietary food, it is impossible to reach, and long stay on it damages health.