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What are the components in icecream

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"ice cream" only contains two simple words "ice" a-nd "cream". But it is actually quite a complex a-nd multi-faceted composition. It should be solid, but soft. On a molecular level, ice cream is made up of three basic components: ice crystals, concentrated sweetened cream (include liquid water, milk fat globules, milk proteins, & sugar), a-nd air. 

1. Ice Crystals 

The ice crystals are created when the water-content in the base starts to freeze, they put the "ice" in "ice cream", giving solidity a-nd body. The size of the crystals determines whether the ice cream is fine a-nd smooth or coarse a-nd grainy, a-nd also determines the perceived temperature as it hits your tongue: grainy ice cream will feel colder than a more smooth-textured mixture. (Why is it so? Because the larger crystals require more heat to melt. That heat comes from your mouth, a-nd thus large ice crystals cool your mouth more, making the ice cream feel colder overall.) So to make the ice cream smoother, we need to keep Ice Crystals small. Though ice crystals accoun-t for much of the ice creams solidity, they only make up a fraction of its volume. 

Concentrated Sweetened Cream(include liquid water, milk fat globules, milk proteins, a-nd sugar) 

The concentrated sweetened cream is what is left of the mix when ice crystals form. Because of all the dissolved sugar, about a fifth of the water in the mix remains unfrozen even at 0 °F ( -18 °C). The result is a very thick fluid that is about equal portions of liquid water, milk fat globules (both liquid a-nd semi-crystalline), milk proteins (casein micelle a-nd whey), a-nd sugar. This fluid coats each of the many millions of ice crystals, a-nd sticks them together. Semi-crystallized globules of milk fat knock together when the ice cream is churned, a-nd form long, pearl-like stra-nds that wrap around the air bubbles, yielding a stable foam, a-nd giving ice cream most of its volume.

3. Air 

Air cells are trapped in the ice cream mix when it is churned. They interrupt a-nd weaken the matrix of ice crystals a-nd cream, making that matrix lighter a-nd easier to scoop a-nd yielding a melty, luscious mouthfeel. The more air bubbles there are a-nd the smaller they are, the smoother the ice cream will be. Large companies have machines that can incorporate lots of air. The air cells also inflate the volume of the original mix. The increase is called "overrun", a-nd in a fluffy ice cream can be as much as 100%, that is, the final ice cream volume is half mix a-nd half air. The lower the overrun, the denser the ice cream

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