Many connoisseurs love nut ice cream.
But did you know that most varieties hardly contain any real nuts?
You can read the sad truth here.
Summer is here, the sun is shining, the ice cream parlors have finally reopened.
What is your favorite ice cream?
Chocolate, vanilla *, yoghurt or maybe a type of nut?
Pistachio, hazelnut or walnut
: nut ice cream is popular with many consumers.
But the frightening thing is that many types of ice cream that are sold as nut ice cream by ice cream parlors do not contain any nuts, and some do not even have the appropriate flavor.
The NDR consumer magazine
Markt had
several types of nut ice cream from ice cream parlors examined in the laboratory.
The result: many people cheat.
Nut ice cream is often made from finished products with flavors
For the production of nut ice cream you should know: There are the
guidelines for ice cream of
the German Food Book.
There it is stipulated that the nut content must be five percent, and the taste must also be clearly perceptible.
The situation is different with “
ice cream with a nut flavor
”: It doesn't have to contain any nut components at all, the flavor is usually created by adding aromas.
Many ice cream parlors work with ready-made products instead of the ice cream with natural ingredients, in this case z.
B. pure pulp from nuts or pistachios to make yourself.
Also delicious:
you only need three ingredients for this creamy, creamy ice cream - and no ice cream machine.
Ice cream check: pistachio ice cream almost never contains pistachios
According to the
market,
pistachio ice cream in
particular
often does not meet the requirements. There are no regulations in the guidelines for this variety. As the chairman of the German Food Book Commission Birgit Rehlender reports, however, from a purely food law point of view, pistachio ice cream must also contain what it says on the label: “And it must also taste like it.” In
90 percent of the cases, the pistachio ice cream varieties examined
by
Markt
did not have the aroma made from pistachios but was added. In some cases, there were even flavorings that are not even permitted for food in the EU. The ice is also colored green.
A particularly large amount of
benzaldehyde was
found
in one sample
: a substance that tastes like bitter almond and marzipan, although that has nothing to do with the real taste of pistachios.
In this case, neither “pistachio ice cream” nor “pistachio-flavored ice cream” is actually allowed.
Markt also
discovered a
lot of added flavor
in walnut and hazelnut
ice cream.
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Recognizing good nut ice cream: Consumers can do that
What can you as a consumer do now
to recognize
good
nut ice cream
in your ice cream parlor?
Unfortunately, there's not good news about this: your options are limited.
In principle, ingredients do not have to be specified for goods sold in bulk, as
reported by the
market
.
You can of course ask the staff in the ice cream shop - but whether you can expect an honest answer there is questionable.
So what to do
You can enjoy your
favorite ice
also
own manufacture
.
A recipe for delicious ice cream, which you can vary as you wish, can be found here.
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Source:
Market
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