Junk food ice cream

My girlfriend bought some ice cream the other day and since I always check the ingredients list I decided to take a look and see what kind of crap is in this ice cream. It has one of the biggest ingredient list I've ever seen! And it's completely full of crap!

1. Cream
2. Sugar
3. Milk
4. nonfat milk
5. animal cookies (sugar, enriched flour(wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)
6. hydrogenated and/or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
7. palm kernel
8. palm and/or coconut oil
9.corn starch
10. nonfat dry milk
11. high fructose corn syrup
12. salt
13. soy lecithin
14. baking soda
15. artificial flavor
16. confectioners glaze
17. red 40
18. red 3
19. yellow 5
20. camuba wax
21. blue 1
22. blue lake 2
23. yellow 6 lake
24. caramel color
25. yellow 6
26. sorbitan monostearate
27. cookie batter base (high fructose corn syrup, water, sugar, enriched wheat flour (list of synthetic vitamins)
28. glycerine
29. natural and artificial flavors
30. modified palm oil
31. leavening
32. sodium bicarbonate
33. monocalcium phosphate
34. sodium acid pyrophosphate
35. emulsifiers
36. mono and diester of fats and fatty acids, mono and diglycerides and lecithin
37. dextrose
38. cornstarch modified
39. annatto and turmeric extracts for color
40. potassium sorbate (preservative)
41. xanthan gum
42. salt
43. soy bean oil
44. citric acid
45. corn syrup
46. mono- and diglycerides
47. guar gum
48. cellulose gum
49. polysorbate 80
50. locust bean gum
51. carrageenan
52. red 40
53. sodium carboxymethylcelluslose


53 ingredients in a little thing of ice cream... I'm definitely not eating this junk. Anyone got a bigger ingredients list than that?

I can beat that... 59 ingredients in mcdonalds milkshake

www.guardian.co.uk...

Originally posted by iamdavid
I can beat that... 59 ingredients in mcdonalds milkshake

www.guardian.co.uk...

Oh wow... This list...

And what does that "artificial strawberry flavour" contain? Just these few yummy chemicals: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphrenyl- 2-butanone (10% solution in alcohol), ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, undecalactone, vanillin and solvent.

That's scary. But damn, I didn't think anyone would beat my list so fast. Not surprising though coming from good ole McDonalds.

I love some chocolate milkshakes, but this scares me.

I had no idea it had that many chemicals.. especially the McDonald's thing. And that, boys and girls, is why making home-made ice cream both tastes the best and is better for you.