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
- Dishes
- 1 in the catalogue
- Energy
- 201 kcal per 100 g

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
- sugar (sometimes)
- cocoa powder (sometimes)
- vanilla (sometimes)
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
Protein 13%Fat 17%Carbohydrate 70%of the macronutrients by weight
| Energy | 201 kcal · 839 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 5.3 g |
| Fat | 7.3 g |
| of which saturated | 4.3 g |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| of which sugars | 24 g |
| Fibre | 1 g |
| Sodium | 75 mg |
| Cholesterol | 41 mg |
| Potassium | 196 mg |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 158 mg |
| Iron | 0.85 mg |
| Magnesium | 9 mg |
| Zinc | 0.31 mg |
| Vitamin C | 1 mg |
| Vitamin A (RAE) | 133 µg |
| Folate | 4 µg |
| Vitamin B12 | 0.52 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
Dishes by continent
Countries whose dishes use it most
Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list ice cream among their ingredients.
Origins
1686 · France
Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli opened an ice cream café in Paris.
1718 · United Kingdom
The first English-language ice cream recipe was published in London.
1851 · United Kingdom
Carlo Gatti opened a London stand as ice cream was becoming more affordable.
2006
Some commercial producers began freezing ice cream with liquid nitrogen.
On the table
Dishes made with ice cream
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
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
ສີຄີມກ້ອນ
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
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
- Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata item: Q13233
Photos
Photo: Farrah Zakir · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
