hello there. im back again for another fatified entry.
it's 1.31 pm after lunch. i had a slice of bread and ham.
but for dessert, i had nian gao and guess what else? approximately 500g worth of icecream cake!!!! :D:D:D:D yums ( mom's going to kill me again :P )
this binging thing from the beginning of the year til now has allowed me to grow taller HAHA (and, sadly, fatter too).
but what exactly is in icecream? and why do people say cream is bad?
according to Wikipedia.com, the defnition of cream is:
" a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators". In many countries, cream is sold in several grades depending on total butterfat content. Cream can be dried to a powder for shipment to distant markets.
Cream produced by cows grazing on natural pasture often contains some natural carotenoid pigments derived from the plants they eat; this gives the cream a slight yellow tone, hence the name of the yellowish-white colour cream. Cream from cows fed indoors, on grain or grain-based pellets, is white."
there are different types of cream! :)
Modern industrially produced ice cream is made from a mixture of ingredients:
Minimum of 10% milk fat
9-12% milk solids: this component, also known as the serum solids, contains the proteins and carbohydrates found in milk
12-16% sweeteners: usually a combination of sucrose and/or glucose-based corn syrup sweeteners
0.2-0.5% stabilizers and emulsifiers, e.g. agar or carrageenan extracted from seaweed
55%-64% water which comes from milk solids or other ingredients
tell you something cool. Cheaper icecream use stabilizers rather than cream and the incorporation of air also decrease the fat and energy content of less expensive ice creams, hahaha. so maybe cheaper icecreams are better than the expensive ones, for example ben and jerrys.
wah, okay now i feel terrible. but its a good thing i scrapped off the cream before eating the icecream cake. hope i dont fail NAPFA after this. :P
