You can’t imagine summer without the best goodies - without ice cream! It is both sweet and tasty, and surprisingly pleasant. Ice cream refreshes and even saturates, and also raises the level of endorphins in the blood, so the product can be considered truly universal. Popular brands of ice cream represent a taste line for any whim of the consumer. Let's try to conduct a tour of the world assortment of this delicacy, which has won the hearts of millions of fans.
The main taste of summer
When the heat is on the street, it is being sold out faster than the notorious hot cakes. And the taste and color here are clearly no mates. Someone loves ice cream, and someone is crazy about different types of fruit ice. There are even all kinds of ice cream cakes and sandwiches based on it.
In summer, ice cream is a way out of any situation, a reason to take a walk and the opportunity to cool yourself. But which one to choose? Ice cream brands even within the same country are amazing. An ordinary consumer can buy different types of product all year long and never repeat himself, but the true "gold bars" have to be sieved from the total mass. Let's try to visit the recognized record points for sales and production of dairy treats.
Gastronomic tour of the world
If you look into Venezuela, then a small yellow house with green windows can immediately not be noticed. It is painfully modest, but inside there is an ice cream parlor with the largest assortment. There are about 800 flavors. The institution has the name Heladeria Coromoto, and its owner Manuel Oliveiro is included in the history of ice cream for his idea of ​​adding avocado, champagne, pumpkin, squid and even Viagra to the dessert! The last option is the institution’s branded product, and the effect is enhanced by the presence of honey and bee pollen in the composition of honey.
Tourists also love the Parisian Berthillon store, which is placed on the same scale as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and Notre Dame Cathedral. Here, 70 varieties of sorbets are collected, as well as brands of ice cream with passion fruit, kiwi, melon, rhubarb and chestnuts!
Originality is attracted by the Singaporean cafe Udders. Translated into Russian, the name means "udder". The idea was very sweet - to combine the associative series "milk-cow-meadow", but all marketing flew into the trash when the owner entered ice cream with alcohol on the menu. The names will please the gourmet - "Rum-Raisins", "Baileys-Bourbon", "Black Amaretto" and others. Over time, the owner made drunk desserts his "chip".
Fans of the movie "Roman Vacations" must visit the Italian gelateria in Rome, where you can now buy the waffle cone that Audrey Hepburn has enjoyed and drink it with the sweet Marsala wine.
With a bias in exotic
For specific nationalities, and ice cream is appropriate. For example, the Cup Ice Museum store operates in Tokyo, where the buyer is offered the most unusual mixes of vanilla and octopus, pumpkin and squid, banana and wasabi. In total there are about 400 mixes, and this is not the limit of Japanese imagination!
In Istanbul, you can and should taste the traditional oriental ice cream ("dondurma"), which is made with mountain orchid powder. It is on such a product that the Turkish cafe Ali Usta specializes. There are 32 kinds in the menu, but topping does not play a special role here, since there is a local Viagra extract in ice cream, which, according to men, acts magically!
A world tour can be completed in New York, where the Bierkraft ice cream parlor is famous for its burgers. Instead of cutlets and cheese, there’s vanilla sweets inside. By the way, such a burger is served for a beer snack!
By standard
In total, a real sweet tooth will not find rest if it is set to try the best brands of ice cream in the world. There is no limit to perfection, and confectioners continue to strain their imagination. Therefore, we will try to narrow the circle in the second part of the conversation and determine the best brands of ice cream in Russia. It should be noted that it will be a mistake to judge leaders solely by price. Good ice cream may be affordable in terms of price, but its composition always remains short and concise.
State quality standards in the country allow the presence of certain additives in the product, since otherwise the shelf life will be short until it is impossible to sell. The influence of chemicals a priori cannot be favorable for the body, so ice cream already purchased will not be completely useful. Although most of the ingredients may be of natural origin, but they will be more expensive, and therefore manufacturers do not often resort to them.
Base composition
What do we expect from the content of goodies? For example, consider the classic ice cream - ice cream brand "Russian cold". The composition is good - cream, whole milk, condensed milk with sugar, sugar, vanillin, cocoa (for chocolate counterpart). Also included is water. If ice cream was completely natural, then that would be all. Then the product would be stored only a couple of days.
But in the purchased version, the composition is supplemented by stabilizers, emulsifiers, necessary to maintain uniformity and softness. At best, these are pectin, gelatin and agar-agar. Alas, you will not find such on the labels! But on the products "Russian cold" there are no words about the ingredients "identical to natural" and "substitutes." This is good, since in the presence of such lines in the composition we can talk about synthetic substances that are alien to the human body.
In terms of naturalness
So, we highlight the best brands of ice cream from those that are presented in stores. The top lines of the ratings are occupied by the ice cream from the Kuban, produced under the brand name “Cow from Korenovka”. It is produced according to GOST, has a delicate creamy taste and has only one stabilizer-emulsifier in its composition. By the way, cream and not milk open the list of ingredients, which is a rarity for Russia. The product does not contain vegetable fats, modified starch, substitutes or dyes. Even vanillin is real here. This is almost perfect childhood ice cream.
Silver belongs to the Clean Line brand. Her products are also manufactured in accordance with GOST and in accordance with Russian standards. Manufacturers use natural milk and do not add vegetable fats. There are no germs, bacteria, yeast and preservatives in ice cream. But there are also disadvantages - a high level of fat and sugar. In addition, an overestimated proportion of protein is declared on the label, but this does not affect the taste.
The top three also includes the natural ice cream brand Chelny Kholod. This refrigeration plant has been famous for its products for several decades and regularly replenishes its line. The composition of ice cream has changed over time, but production is still carried out according to state quality standards.
Golden mean
In Russia there are brands that are optimal in terms of price-quality ratio. This is the Gold Standard ice cream without vegetable fats, germs, yeast and preservatives. The sugar and fat content are as stated. The only “but”, because of which the product does not belong to the clear leaders, is the presence in the composition of only milk powder.
Since we list the brands of ice cream known in Russia, the list would not be complete without the “USSR” ice cream. It also complies with all mandatory requirements and takes into account quality standards. But the yeast rate here is very high, although such a quantity is not dangerous to the human body.
Scope Outsiders
It is worth noting those ice cream brands that have not the highest rates, but an overpriced one. In particular, we highlight the “Vkuslandiya” ice cream, which, during the study, broke up into fat and ice. It has a lot of sugar, which is dangerous for children and people with diabetes.
But the ice cream "Family Iceberry" loses in quality due to the high content of vegetable fats. By standards, this is not ice cream at all, but a real counterfeit.
The popular ice cream "Nestle 48 kopecks" contains an excessive dose of sugar, which is a violation of technological standards. The rest of the composition is impeccable, and the taste is highly appreciated by consumers.
The biggest disappointment was the Movenpick ice cream, which has twice as much sugar as claimed. This is a direct violation of consumer rights.