100 to 1 what kind of ice cream. The most unusual ice cream flavors: a guide to summer

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Ice cream is loved by adults and children anywhere in the world. There is probably no more popular and widespread dessert than ice cream. Today, ice cream comes in all sorts of flavors, colors and shapes. They even produce exotic ice cream with strange flavors. Would you like to try beer-flavored ice cream?! What about mustard?

The history of ice cream goes back to ancient times, when people froze fruits and water. Over the years, countless recipes for making ice cream have appeared. Today you don’t even know which ice cream is considered classic and which is amazing in its recipe. You can buy ice cream in almost every stall.

The undeniable advantage of ice cream is that it can be consumed at any time of the year. Ice cream can be consumed either alone or in combination with various fruits, syrups and chocolate. However, despite the diversity, there are three main ice cream flavors that are the most popular.

№1 Vanilla ice cream

Vanilla ice cream takes first place. The most popular ice cream in the world. It was originally produced from a plant of the same name, but today it is most often replaced by artificial flavors. Vanilla ice cream combines easily with other flavors, so it is often the basis for other ice cream flavors.

#2 Chocolate ice cream

Chocolate ice cream was one step away from gold. Chocolate ice cream is most often made with the addition of nuts or cookies. Chocolate ice cream differs from vanilla in taste and color. It is darker and more tart. There is a legend that it first appeared when regular vanilla ice cream was poured with chocolate on top.

#3 Strawberry ice cream

In third place was strawberry ice cream. The reason for its popularity is its very sweet taste, which attracts girls. Strawberry ice cream is considered the most popular among women. Most often, strawberry ice cream is made pink with the addition of berries.

And me with coal, please!

Black ice cream was invented by confectioners from Los Angeles by adding charcoal to milk. The novelty appealed not only to residents of the City of Angels. Today, many manufacturers produce black ice cream. By the way, there are his fans in Russia too.

For lobster lovers

Italians are excellent cooks. And what kind of desserts they prepare! It is not surprising that it was in Italy that lobster ice cream was invented. According to culinary experts, sweet popsicles have gone out of fashion. Moreover, ordering it for dessert is too banal. Lobster-flavored ice cream is served simultaneously with the first and second courses.

Something smelled like durian...

This Asian fruit is famous for its foul odor (reminiscent of garlic, rotten onions, rotten fish, – approx. editorial staff), but ice cream makers ask you not to pay attention to it, since this fruit tastes quite pleasant. But there is also bad news. If you do decide to try durian ice cream, then after you eat it, you will hardly be able to boast of fresh breath.

Kiwi ice cream sandwich

Unusual presentation ice cream is also an art. This time it was the French who distinguished themselves, namely pastry chef Dominique Ansel. The treat is an ice cream sandwich: the center part is made of vanilla ice cream, sprinkled with poppy seeds, and surrounded by a layer of kiwi sorbet, and chocolate glaze more like cocoa powder.

Gelato in the shape of a flower

The famous Italian gelato ice cream has recently been increasingly sold in the form of flowers. Sellers skillfully arrange roses from gelato, and one flower can contain petals of different flavors.

Burrito

Another option for an original presentation. Place 2-3 spoons of ice cream on a sheet of cotton candy and roll it up like a burrito.

Do you like it hot?

Can you imagine fried ice cream? No? And it is in Mexico! This dessert is very easy to prepare. First, apple-sized balls of ice cream are molded and frozen very tightly. Then they are rolled in flour, egg and breading, and frozen again. Before serving, the balls are very quickly deep-fried in vegetable oil.

Ginger

You can easily make this ice cream at home. In a blender, beat the pickled ginger with sugar and mix it all with the ice cream. Place in molds and serve. Just be prepared for an unusual taste. However, you might really like this dessert.

Onion

Imagine, such ice cream exists! Before cooking it, the bitterness and specific smell are removed from the onion by sautéing. Then milk, cream, eggs, sugar and vanilla are added to the blender.

Corn

Another unusual ice cream is corn ice cream. Try cooking it. To do this, boil the cream over low heat, add corn kernels (preferably young corn). Then a little vanilla sugar and regular sugar. When the corn is cooked, beat the mixture with a blender and rub through a sieve. Add sour cream, mix and place in freezer for 3 hours (or cook in an ice cream maker) Serve with popcorn, grains sweet corn or corn flakes.

We combine business with pleasure: see the sights of Moscow and try the most delicious cold delicacy.

TSUM

The central universal fashion store has acquired a Buro TSUM restaurant on the fifth floor with a huge terrace. We catch discounts, look at new collections and try homemade granitas made from Japanese shiso mint, sorrel and basil. Don't miss the Strawberry Stracciatella: Stracciatella ice cream topped with strawberry espuma, strawberry sauce, fresh summer strawberries and baby black meringues.

STALIN'S HIGH-RISES

Have you admired the renovated Foreign Ministry building on Smolenka? Now you can go for homemade ice cream in #SiberiaSiberia hit. It's made here with pine nuts, from lingonberries (added to “Pavlova’s Dessert”) along with dried lingonberries and lingonberry meringues, from cottage cheese, with the nostalgic taste of creamy fudge, with the bright aroma of fried buckwheat (in fact, the cream is infused with popcorn from buckwheat) and “Borodinskoe » ( sourdough bread, coriander, berries). The most amazing thing is the Siberian village sweet: frozen forest cranberries with honey (or condensed milk!) and pine nuts. Ice berry - fragrant nut - berry - nut. Amazing.

PATRIARCH'S PONDS

Sooner or later, everyone walking around Patrick stumbles upon an ice cream cart outside the 800C Contemporary Steak restaurant. There are sorbets made from northern berries (cloudberries, cranberries, sea buckthorn and lingonberries) and new flavors of ice cream: condensed milk and cappuccino.

TAGANKA

Before heading to one of the local theaters (Sergei Zhenovach's Studio of Theater Arts is very good), stop by the Museum of Ancient Russian Painting (it's free), and in between, eat a scoop of raspberry lavender ice cream on the veranda of the Crimea Moy restaurant overlooking the embankment. The menu includes classic vanilla and chocolate ice cream, but the most interesting thing is the one made using fruits and herbs growing on the Crimean Peninsula. There is pear with oregano, and raspberries with mint.

WHITE SQUARE

A fountain, a crowd, a church reflected in the glass of skyscrapers - the ideal place for a selfie and a scoop of creamy ice cream with Gorgonzola cheese and walnuts at Magnum Wine Bar. Wash it down with a glass of the sweet sherry that it comes with - it will make the world seem even more wonderful than usual.

MOSCOW LINES

There is nothing better than getting lost in the very center of the city, and then being found in the intricacy of its alleys and coming out to Sretenka, straight to the Scottish Plaid restaurant. Here you can listen to bagpipes and try cedar ice cream with berry sauce. It's an annual hit summer seasons restaurant: Over 7 years, more than one and a half tons of this ice cream have been eaten.

RED OCTOBER

Moscow's first creative cluster is still interesting for its galleries, showrooms and restaurants. On the yacht-like terrace of two of them, Cacciatore and Pescatore, you can eat a slice of country summer. Take homemade nettle sorbet with lime and tarragon and ice cream made from fermented baked milk, chamomile and vermouth and remember your beloved grandmother.

RED SQUARE

At the Quarantotto pop-up restaurant at the Four Seasons Moscow, you can try such unusual combinations of flavors as pear with grappa, burrata with cherry, orange sorbet with martini, and also creamy black sesame ice cream original recipe hotel chef.

CHINA TOWN

There is always a queue at the Casa Leone cafe on Lubyansky Proezd. Here they make gelato according to the recipe of the most successful and famous ice cream maker in the world, vice-president of the Italian Ice Cream Makers Association, Sergio Dondoli. His invention with Gorgonzola flavor walnuts has become a traditional guilty pleasure for Muscovites. You can try it in the cafe creamy dessert with the taste of grapefruit with champagne, mascarpone and ginger, white wine, spicy chocolate with cherry, lavender with blueberries, saffron. Every week the gelateria adds new items to the menu. For example, ice cream with the taste of popcorn or black bread. The hit of July is sorbets made from fragrant seasonal fruits: apricots, peaches. If you find yourself nearby this hot weekend, don’t deny yourself a ball of fragrant July pears.

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In the world ranking, 6 out of 10 places went to Unilever brands, 2 positions went to Nestle brands, and General Mills and Wells Enterprises went to one place each. The overall ranking of the 10 largest ice cream brands is as follows:

1. Magnum (Unilever Group)
3. Cornetto (Unilever Group)
4. Ben & Jerry's (Unilever Group)
5. Breyers (Unilever Group)
6. Carte D'or (Unilever Group)
7. Dreyer's/Edy's (Nestle SA)
8. Blue Bunny (Wells Enterprises)
9. Drumstick (Nestle SA) 10. Kibon (Unilever Group)

In the Asia-Pacific region, transnational brands also made it into the ranking: Unilever's Cornetto and General Mills' Haagen Dazs took 2 positions. The top also included 2 brands of Inner Mognolia Yuli Industrial Group. 4 more trade marks the ranking belongs to the Japanese companies Meji, Glico and Lotte.

1. Cornetto (Unilever Group)
2. Haagen Dazs (General Mills Inc)
3. Yili Chocliz (Inner Mognolia Yuli Industrial Group)
4. Meiji (Meiji Holdings Co Ltd)
5. Glico (Ezaki Glico Co Ltd)
6. Lotte (Lotte Group)
7. Sanquan (Zhengzhou sanquan food)
8. Wall's (Unilever Group)
9. Yili (Inner Mognolia Yuli Industrial Group)
10. Synear (Synear Food Holdings Ltd)

In Oceania, well-known brands of international companies can be found in the TOP 10: 4 out of 10 positions went to Unilever Group. It is noteworthy that the rating included the company R&R Rice Cream, which recently launched a joint business with Nestle.

1. Peters (R&R Rice Cream)
2. Magnum (Unilever Group)
3. Bulla (Regal Cream Products)
4. Tip Top (Fonterra Co-operative Group)
5. Sara Lee (Tyson Foods)
6. Blue Ribbon (Unilever Group)
7. Connoisseur (Nestle SA)
8. Paddle Pop (Nestle SA)
9. Cadbury (Mondelez International)
10. Ben & Jerry's (Unilever Group)

In Eastern Europe, 3 brands in the top five of the ranking belong to Unilever. The remaining positions went to regional market players. “Rud”, “Laska” and “Lasunka” are brands of Ukrainian dairy companies, Frikom is the leader of the Serbian market, Koral is a Polish brand. La Fam ice cream is produced by the Russian company Talosto, the Ledo brand belongs to a manufacturer from Croatia.

1. “Gold” (Unilever Group)
2. Algida (Unilever Group)
3. “Rud” (Zhytomyr Creamery)
4. Magnat (Unilever Group)
5. Frikom (Agrokor dd)
6. "Lasunka" (Lasunka)
7. Koral (PPL Koral)
8. La Fam (Talosto)
9. "Laska" (Laska Company)
10. Ledo (Agrokor dd)

The Latin American market is again dominated by Unilever umbrella brands, occupying the 4th leading position in the ranking. You can also see other transnationals in the TOP: Nestle and General Mills.

1. Kibon (Unilever Group)
2. Magnum (Unilever Group)
3. Cornetto (Unilever Group)
4. Tio Rico (Unilever Group)
5. EFE (Empresas Polar)
6. Nestle (Nestle SA)
7. Crem Helado (Grupo Nutresa SA)
8. Savory (Nestle SA)
9. D'onofrio (Nestle SA)
10. Haagen Dazs (General Mills Inc)

In the Middle East and Africa market, international companies, Unilever and Nestle, are represented by 4 positions out of 10. Mihan, Domino, Kalleh, Daity, Pak are Iranian companies, IFCO is a manufacturer from the UAE.

1. Mihan (Mihan Dairy)
2. Domino (Domino Dairy & Ice Cream)
3. Kalleh (Solico Food Industrial Group)
4. Magnum (Unilever Group)
5. Kimo (Nestle SA)
6. Extreme (Nestle SA)
7. Daity (Zarrin Ghazal)
8. Pak (Pak Dairy)
9. Dolceca (Nestle SA)
10. Igloo (IFFCO)

The TOP 10 ice cream brands in the North America region are mainly represented by multinational companies. The exceptions are the Blue Bunny brand from Wells' Dairy and Bluebell from the Texas company Blue Bell Creameries.

1. Breyers (Unilever Group)
2. Haagen Dazs (General Mills Inc)
3. Ben & Jerry's (Unilever Group)
4. Dreyer's/Edy's (Nestle SA)
5. Blue Bunny (Wells' Dairy)
6. Klondike (Unilever Group)
7. Drumstick (Nestle SA)
8. Outshine (Nestle SA)
9. Popsicle (Unilever Group)
10. Blue Bell (Blue Bell Creameries)

In Western Europe, history repeats itself: the majority of ranking positions belong to international companies. The last 2 lines are occupied by trademarks of companies from Germany.

1. Magnum (Unilever Group)
2. Cornetto (Unilever Group)
3. Carte D'or (Unilever Group)
4. Haagen Dazs (General Mills Inc)
5. Viennetta (Unilever Group)
6. Ben & Jerry's (Unilever Group)
7. Movenpick (Nestle SA)
8. Solero (Unilever Group)
9. Coppenrath & Wiese (Conditorei Coppenrath & Wiese)
10. Bofrost Bofrost Dienstleistungs (GmbH)

You can't imagine summer without the best treat - ice cream! It is sweet, tasty, and surprisingly pleasant. Ice cream is refreshing and even satiating, and also raises the level of endorphins in the blood, so the product can be considered truly universal. Popular ice cream brands offer flavor lines to suit every consumer’s whim. Let's try to take a tour of the global assortment of this delicacy, which has won the hearts of millions of admirers.

The main taste of summer

When it's hot outside, it sells out faster than the proverbial hot cakes. And there are clearly no comrades here in terms of taste and color. Some people love ice cream, while others are crazy about different types 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 an opportunity to cool yourself down. Just which one to choose? Ice cream brands, even within the same country, are amazing. An ordinary consumer can buy all year different types product and will never be repeated, but true “gold bars” have to be sifted from the total mass. Let's first try to visit the recognized record-breaking points for sales and production of dairy delicacies.

Gastronomic tour of the world

If you look into Venezuela, you may not immediately notice the small yellow house with green windows. It is too modest, but inside there is an ice cream parlor with the largest assortment. There are about 800 flavors here. The establishment is called Heladeria Coromoto, and its owner Manuel Oliveiro is listed for his idea of ​​adding avocado, champagne, pumpkin, squid and even Viagra to dessert! The latter option is the establishment’s signature product, and the effect is enhanced by the presence of honey and bee pollen in the composition.

Tourists also love the Parisian store Berthillon, which is put on the same scale as Eiffel Tower, Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral. There are 70 varieties of sorbets, as well as brands of ice cream with passion fruit, kiwi, melon, rhubarb and chestnuts!

The Singaporean cafe Udders attracts with its originality. Translated into Russian, the name means “udder”. The idea was very cute - to combine "milk-cow-meadow", but all the marketing went to waste when the owner added ice cream with alcohol to the menu. The names will please the gourmet - “Rum-Raisin”, “Bailies-Bourbon”, “Black Amaretto” and others. Over time, the owner made drunken desserts his specialty.

Fans of the film "Roman Holiday" should definitely visit the Italian gelateria in Rome, where you can still buy the waffle cone that Audrey Hepburn enjoyed and wash it down with something sweet.

With an exotic twist

Specific nationalities have corresponding ice cream. For example, in Tokyo there is a Cup Ice Museum store, where customers are offered the most unusual mixes of vanilla and octopus, pumpkin and squid, banana and wasabi. There are about 400 mixes in total, and this is not the limit of Japanese imagination!

In Istanbul, you can and should try traditional oriental ice cream (“dondurma”), which is made with mountain orchid powder. This is the product that the Turkish cafe Ali Usta specializes in. There are 32 types on the menu, but the topping does not play a special role here, since the ice cream contains a local extract of Viagra, which, according to men, works magically!

The world tour can end in New York, where the Bierkraft ice cream parlor, famous for its burgers, operates. Instead of a cutlet and cheese, there is a piece of vanilla sweetness inside. By the way, this burger is served as a snack with beer!

According to standard

In summary, a real sweet tooth will not find rest if he sets out to try best brands ice cream in the world. There is no limit to perfection, and confectioners continue to stretch their imagination. Therefore, in the second part of the conversation we will try to narrow the circle and identify the best ice cream brands in Russia. It should be noted here that it would be a mistake to judge the leaders solely by price. Good ice cream can be affordable in prices, but its composition always remains short and concise.

State quality standards in the country allow the presence of some additives in the product, since otherwise the shelf life will be short to the point of impossibility of sale. The effect of chemicals a priori cannot be beneficial for the body, so store-bought ice cream will not be completely beneficial. Although most of the ingredients may be of natural origin, they will be more expensive, and therefore manufacturers do not often resort to them.

Basic composition

What do we expect from the contents of the treat? For example, let's look at the classic ice cream - ice cream of the "Russian Cold" brand. The composition is good - whole cream with sugar, sugar, vanillin, cocoa (for a chocolate analogue). It also contains water. If ice cream were completely natural, then that would be all there is to it. Then the product would only be stored for a couple of days.

But in the purchased version, the composition is supplemented with stabilizers-emulsifiers necessary to maintain uniformity and softness. At best, gelatin and agar-agar. Alas, you won’t find these on labels! But on the “Russian Cold” products there are no words about ingredients “identical to natural” and “substitutes”. This is good, because if such lines are present in the composition, we can talk about synthetic substances that are alien to the human body.

From a natural point of view

So, let's highlight the best brands of ice cream that are presented in stores. The top positions in the ratings are occupied by ice cream from Kuban, produced under the brand name “Cow from Korenovka”. It is produced in accordance with GOST and is distinguished by its gentle creamy taste and contains only one stabilizer-emulsifier. By the way, the list of ingredients opens with cream, not milk, which is very rare for Russia. The product does not contain vegetable fats, modified starch, substitutes or dyes. Even the vanilla here is real. This is almost perfect ice cream from my childhood.

"Silver" belongs to the "Clean Line" brand. Her products are also manufactured according to GOST and in accordance with Russian standards. Manufacturers use natural milk and do not add vegetable fats. There are no germs, bacteria, yeast or preservatives in the ice cream. But there are also disadvantages - high levels of fat and sugar. In addition, the label states that the protein content is too high, but this does not affect the taste.

The top three also includes natural ice cream of the Chelny Kholod brand. This refrigeration plant has been famous for its products for several decades and regularly adds to its product 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 have the best price-quality ratio. This is the "Gold Standard" ice cream without vegetable fats, microbes, yeast and preservatives. The sugar and fat content is as stated. The only “but”, which is why the product does not belong to the obvious leaders, is the presence of only powdered milk in the composition.

Since we are listing well-known ice cream brands in Russia, the list will not be complete without the “USSR” ice cream. It also meets all mandatory requirements and takes into account quality standards. But the yeast level here is very high, although this amount is not dangerous for the human body.

Outsiders of the sphere

It is worth noting those ice creams that do not have the most high performance, but overpriced. In particular, let us highlight the “Vkuslandia” ice cream, which, upon examination, disintegrated into fat and ice. It contains a lot of sugar, which is dangerous for children and people with diabetes.

But Family Iceberry ice cream 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 Nestle 48 kopeck ice cream contains an excessive dose of sugar, which is a violation of technological standards. Otherwise, the composition is impeccable, and the taste is highly appreciated by consumers.

The biggest disappointment was the Movenpick sundae, which had twice as much sugar as advertised. This is a direct violation of consumer rights.