Quite simply, Artisan ice cream is ice cream made by an artisan which the dictionary defines as being a ‘skilled craftsperson’. Delving deeper into the dictionary it tells us that a craftsperson is someone who makes things skilfully by hand.

Although nowdays, ice cream makers do not plunge their hands into a bowl to make their ice cream, the artisan makers certainly do take a very ‘hands on’ approach using all the skills that they have learnt from many years making ice cream with recipes and techniques often handed down from one generation to the next.

Artisan producers are able to be ‘hands on’ as they make smaller batches of ice cream that will be sold and eaten in as short a time as possible as ‘fresh’ ice cream is the best there is.

They also use processes and machinery that need the ‘human touch’ be it in choosing and mixing the ingredients or keeping a close eye on the freezing to make sure the ice cream is of the smoothest, highest quality possible.

Artisan ice cream is a natural food with important nutritional value. In fact, the ingredients of ice cream are the same as those you probably use almost every day: milk, eggs, cream, cocoa, fruit and basic building blocks like proteins, sugar, fat, vitamins, minerals, and fibre.

Milk-based ice cream contains proteins of significant biological value, full of essential amino acids that are very useful to the body and its constant regeneration.

The main carbohydrates in ice cream are mostly lactose and sucrose, simple sugars that are quickly metabolised. These nutrients are useful when the body is in movement, particularly when the body is recovering from athletic activity.

Fat in ice cream provides a favourable quota of short chain fatty acids that are used as a source of energy by the body.

Ice cream also includes helpful amounts of vitamin A and B2, calcium and phosphorous.

The raw materials used in ice cream production fall into different categories: dairy (milk, cream, butter), sweeteners (sucrose, fructose, lactose), flavourings (cocoa, chocolate, juices, fruit pulp), and other additives (eggs, coloring, alcohol, etc).

Dividing the ingredients into groups corresponding to the body's needs, we find the following:

        • Water (fluid needs): the vehicle that transports the construction materials to where the body needs them.

        • Sugar (energy needs): very important source of energy for quick use.

        • Fat (energy needs): found in almost all foods except for sugars.

        • Protein (building needs): satisfy the basic organic need to construct new tissue and to substitute damaged and dying
          muscle.

        • Minerals (needs for natural elements): helps nutrients do their jobs.

        • Vitamins (vitamin needs): necessary for making best use of nutrients in food.

Ice cream contains all these elements, essential for complete nutrition.

Just think about the significant presence of milk in ice cream, milk being the only food consumed by infants, in which newborns find all they need: water, sugar, fat, protein, minerals, and vitamins.

If you compare the nutritional value of milk with that of ice cream you will find that there is a higher concentration of nutrients in ice cream. This doesn't mean that one can live on ice cream alone (or milk). However it is interesting to highlight that ice cream does have important nutritional value.

It's nice to know that there is a food out there that is so delicious and yet good for you!

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