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Ice cream

Also called cream ice and iced cream

Ice cream is a dairy food that can be made with sugar, cocoa powder, or vanilla. Cooks use it in baking.

Category
Dairy & eggs
Cooked most in
The Americas
Top country
United States
Ice cream, packaged

Photo: Farrah Zakir · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use ice cream

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake

Made from

Cooking with it

Ice cream softens as it warms.

Shopping

Choosing and storing ice cream

Availability
Supermarkets

Nutrition

What 100 g of ice cream holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 13%Fat 17%Carbohydrate 70%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of ice cream
Energy201 kcal · 839 kJ
Protein5.3 g
Fat7.3 g
of which saturated4.3 g
Carbohydrate30 g
of which sugars24 g
Fibre1 g
Sodium75 mg
Cholesterol41 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of ice cream: minerals and vitamins
Potassium196 mg
Calcium158 mg
Iron0.85 mg
Magnesium9 mg
Zinc0.31 mg
Vitamin C1 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)133 µg
Folate4 µg
Vitamin B120.52 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 170268, 173467), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where ice cream is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses ice cream. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list ice cream among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1686 · France

    Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli opened an ice cream café in Paris.

  2. 1718 · United Kingdom

    The first English-language ice cream recipe was published in London.

  3. 1851 · United Kingdom

    Carlo Gatti opened a London stand as ice cream was becoming more affordable.

  4. 2006

    Some commercial producers began freezing ice cream with liquid nitrogen.

On the table

Dishes made with ice cream

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.
  • Bananas Foster ice cream

    United States

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include ice cream.

Around the world

What ice cream is called

Names in 160 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    helado · crema helada

  • French

    crème glacée · glacé · glace · dessert glacé

  • Italian

    gelato

  • Portuguese

    gelado · sorvete

  • German

    Speiseeis · Gefrorenes · Eiscreme · Eis

  • Dutch

    consumptie-ijs

  • Greek

    παγωτό

  • Turkish

    dondurma

  • Russian

    мороженое

  • Polish

    lody

  • Arabic

    مثلجات

  • Persian

    بستنی

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  • Abkhazian

    аршәы

  • acm

    موطة · مۆطة

  • Afrikaans

    ys

  • Albanian

    akullorja

  • Amharic

    አይስ ክሬም

  • Armenian

    պաղպաղակ

  • Assamese

    আইচ ক্ৰীম

  • Asturian

    xeláu

  • Atikamekw

    ka takak

  • azb

    دوندورما

  • Azerbaijani

    dondurma

  • Bangla

    আইসক্রিম

  • Banjar

    is krim

  • Bashkir

    туңдырма

  • Basque

    Izozki

  • Bavarian

    Speiseeis

  • Belarusian

    марозіва · марожанае

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    марозіва · марожанае

  • Bhojpuri

    आइसक्रीम

  • Bikol

    sorbetes

  • Bosnian

    sladoled

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    sorvete

  • Breton

    dienn-skorn

  • Bulgarian

    сладолед

  • Burmese

    ရေခဲမုန့်

  • Cantonese

    雪糕

  • Catalan

    gelat

  • cdo

    bĭng-gì-lēng

  • Central Dusun

    sokirim

  • Central Kurdish

    ئایسکرێم · ئایس کرێم · بەستەنی · مۆتە

  • Cherokee

    ꭴꮑꮝꮣꮃꮧꮝꮤꮕꭿꭴꮕꮧ

  • Cheyenne

    tsétóno

  • Chinese

    冰淇淋 · 雪糕 · 甜筒 · 冰激凌

  • Cornish

    dehen rew

  • Crimean Tatar (Latin)

    dondurma

  • Croatian

    sladoled

  • Czech

    zmrzlina · zmrzka

  • Danish

    is

  • Egyptian Arabic

    ايس كريم · چيلاتى

  • eml

    ślâ

  • Esperanto

    glaciaĵo

  • Estonian

    jäätis

  • Fijian

    aisi kirimu

  • Filipino

    sorbetes

  • Finnish

    jäätelö

  • Galician

    xeado

  • Georgian

    ნაყინი

  • Goan Konkani

    Ice cream

  • Goan Konkani (Devanagari)

    आइस-क्रीम

  • Goan Konkani (Latin)

    ice cream

  • Guarani

    typy'are'ẽ

  • Gujarati

    આઇસક્રીમ · આઇસ્ક્રીમ

  • Haitian Creole

    krèm · Glase

  • Hakka Chinese

    pîn-kî-lîn · ngiôn-pên · pên-kî-lìn · âi-sṳ-ku-lìm

  • Hawaiian

    Hau kalima

  • Hebrew

    גלידה

  • Hindi

    आइसक्रीम

  • Hungarian

    fagylalt

  • hyw

    պաղպաղակ

  • Icelandic

    rjómaís

  • Ido

    Kremoglacio

  • Indonesian

    es krim

  • Interlingua

    gelato

  • Inuktitut

    ᐊᐃᓯᑯᓖᖅ

  • Irish

    uachtar reoite

  • Japanese

    アイスクリーム · アイス · あいすくりーむ · 冰菓

  • Javanese

    ès krim

  • Kannada

    ಐಸ್ ಕ್ರೀಂ

  • Kazakh

    балмұздақ

  • kge

    Es Krim

  • Khmer

    ការ៉េម

  • Komi

    лымвый

  • Korean

    아이스크림

  • Korean (North Korea)

    얼음보숭이

  • Kurdish

    bestenî

  • Kyrgyz

    мороженое · морожний

  • Lao

    ສີຄີມ​ກ້ອນ

  • Latin

    glacies edibilis

  • Latvian

    saldējums

  • Limburgish

    ies

  • Literary Chinese

    冰酪

  • Lithuanian

    ledai

  • Lombard

    sorbett

  • Luxembourgish

    Glace · Glacé

  • Macedonian

    сладолед

  • Malay

    aiskrim · ais krim

  • Malay (Arabic)

    اءيسکريم

  • Malayalam

    ഐസ്‌ക്രീം

  • Maltese

    ġelat

  • Manx

    key riojey · key riojit

  • Māori

    aihikiriimi

  • Marathi

    आईसक्रीम

  • Min Nan Chinese

    peng-kî-lîm · peng-kî-lîn · peng-ko · sng-ko

  • Minangkabau

    Es krim

  • Moksha

    эйня

  • Mongolian

    цэцгийн мэхээлдэс

  • Moroccan Arabic

    لاباني · ݣلاص · أيس كريم

  • Navajo

    abeʼ yistiní

  • Northern Sami

    lákcajiekŋa

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    iskrem · is · fløteis

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    iskrem · is

  • Odia

    ଆଇସ କ୍ରୀମ

  • Old English

    īsrēam

  • Ossetic

    салдæг · сæлдæг

  • Piedmontese

    Gelà

  • pih

    aiskriim

  • Punjabi

    ਆਈਸ ਕਰੀਮ

  • rki

    ရီခဲမုန့် · ရခဲမုန့်

  • Romanian

    înghețată · înghețată cremoasă · desert înghețat

  • Romansh

    glatsch

  • rsk

    сладоляд

  • Samoan

    aisakulimi

  • Samogitian

    ledā

  • Scots

    ice cream

  • Scottish Gaelic

    reòiteag

  • Serbian

    сладолед

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    сладолед

  • Serbian (Latin)

    sladoled

  • Serbian (Latin)

    sladoled

  • Shan

    ဢႆးသၶရိမ်း · ၼမ်ႉၵၢမ်ႈၸဵမ်း

  • Sicilian

    jilatu · gilatu · gelatu · jazzatu

  • Simplified Chinese

    冰激凌 · 酥山

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    冰淇淋

  • Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)

    冰淇淋

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    冰淇淋

  • Sinhala

    අයිස් ක්‍රීම්

  • Slovak

    zmrzlina

  • Slovenian

    sladoled

  • Somali

    jalaato

  • Southern Sotho

    aesekerimi

  • Sundanese

    éskrim

  • Swahili

    aiskrimu

  • Swedish

    glass · glace

  • Swiss High German

    Glace · Glacé

  • Tajik

    яхмос

  • Talysh

    šinəbijə

  • Tamil

    குளிர்களி

  • Tatar

    туңдырма · бозкаймак

  • Telugu

    ఐస్ క్రీం

  • Thai

    ไอศกรีม · ไอศครีม · ไอติม

  • Tok Pisin

    aiskrim

  • Toki Pona

    suwi lete

  • Traditional Chinese

    冰淇淋 · 酥山 (唐朝) · 奶冰 (元朝)

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    雪糕

  • Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)

    雪糕

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    冰淇淋

  • Tsonga

    ayisikhirimi

  • Tulu

    ಐಸ್ ಕ್ರೀಮ್

  • Turkmen

    dongdurma

  • Ukrainian

    морозиво

  • Urdu

    آئس کریم

  • Uyghur

    ماروژنا

  • Uzbek

    muzqaymoq

  • Veps

    jähine

  • Vietnamese

    kem

  • Võro

    Ijätüs

  • Waray

    sorbetes

  • Welsh

    hufen iâ

  • Western Frisian

    iis

  • Western Panjabi

    آئس کریم

  • Wolof

    galaas

  • Wu Chinese

    雪糕

  • Yiddish

    אייזקרעם

  • Zhuang

    gaunae

  • Zulu

    u-ayisikhilimu

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q13233

Photos

Photo: Farrah Zakir · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons