What are Ice Cream Neutrals or Ice Cream Bases and stabilizers. Discover the secrets of the raw materials for ice cream.

Discover the secrets of raw materials for ice cream.

In this article we discover what ice cream bases are, starting from the raw materials, neutrals and technical ingredients that compose them.

Imagine an ice cream base as the outermost shell of a Russian doll, while the innermost shell is pure thickening raw material. 

The first thing to say is: "what is ice cream?"

Ice cream is composed mainly of liquids, solids and air.
The liquid part is given by milk, water, cream, fruit juices; the solids by sugars, thickeners, fats and dry residues of food; while the air is incorporated during the churning process while the mixture is about to become Ice Cream. 

How do all these elements work?  remain bound together? Ice cream may seem like a very simple mixture: just combine milk, sugar and eggs and voilà, the cream ice cream is ready! But no!

Ice cream is a complex mixture, composed of different elements that, while held together and cooled while being shaken, incorporate air, the ice crystal becomes smaller and smaller and this creamy composition is formed.