In the hot summer, air conditioning WiFi ice watermelon, ice cream also become a way to open the heat. Especially affected by the epidemic, the time at home is prolonged, and the bitter time of not being able to go out, the ice cream stimulates the taste buds, and the pleasure on the tip of the tongue gives people the energy to last for a day.
Novel materials, peculiar shapes, joint cultural IP... Every summer, a variety of internet red ice cream and cultural and creative ice cream will be listed in the freezer, constantly "out of the circle" to refresh everyone's vision. So under the new consumer trend, how should consumers understand the ingredient list in order to unlock the "eat a hundred and not fat"? How do different groups of people choose high-quality and healthy ice cream?
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How to "eat without fat" internet celebrity ice cream? The list of raw materials and ingredients is of interest
Post-95 white-collar ms. Gao has always been a loyal ice cream lover, and every year before summer, the refrigerators in the home and office pantries are filled with ice cream of various flavors early.
In addition to caring about taste and raw materials, Ms. Gao also found that the price of ice cream has risen significantly in the past two years, "when I was a child, I could buy a popsicle for 5 dimes, and now a net red ice cream starting at 10 yuan has become the norm, and the inexpensive ice cream in her memory is missing," she laughed, and she laughed, and she had to work harder for the "ice cream freedom" work.
Nandu reporter visited and found that with the recent rise in temperature, the freezers of large supermarkets and chain convenience stores are filled with ice creams of different styles, attracting many passers-by to stop and buy.
"Salted egg yolk", "Northeast iron pot stew", "coconut ash"... The double-digit price of Internet celebrity hot ice cream, in the taste, packaging and form of innovation, by many young consumers love, has become a public punch card to taste the product.
In addition, with the improvement of public health awareness, low-calorie low-fat, zero sucrose ice cream and plant-based ice cream have also attracted a large number of consumers who "want to eat and are afraid of fat", and the raw material list and nutrient composition list have gradually entered the public vision and become the focus of consumer attention.
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How to buy high-quality ice cream? Doctors remind to look at these three indicators
"The main ingredients of ice cream are milk, sugar, cream, and some products also add chocolate, nuts, fruits, etc., which are absorbed by the human body and then converted into sugar, protein and fat."
Associate Professor Fang Zhihui, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, has been engaged in clinical work for 12 years, because he often deals with special groups such as diabetes and hypertension, and he said the most is to try to choose low-salt, low-fat and low-sugar foods.
So how to buy a good ice cream? Fang Zhihui reminded that for friends with weight loss requirements, pay more attention to the energy of the nutritional ingredient list of the outer packaging and choose products with low energy. Secondly, the difference in the quality of ice cream lies in the amount of protein content, consumers can choose protein content of more than 3.0g, the ingredient list in front of the dairy product row ice cream, such products have high protein content, solid ingredients, milk taste is more mellow.
"Excessive intake of trans fatty acids increases the risk of cardiovascular disease." In recent years, with the deepening of research, trans fatty acids have also been called "time bombs on the dinner table". In this regard, the "National Standard for Food Safety General Principles for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods" stipulates that when food ingredients contain or use hydrogenated and/or partially hydrogenated greases in the production process, the content of trans fats (acids) should be marked in the nutrition composition table. "This also means that if there is no standard, you can eat with confidence," Fang Zhihui reminded.
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Li Da Tangerine and Zhong Xue are high and low in calories
Zhong Xuegao has the highest protein content
Under the new consumer trend, with the consumer shifting from price to the pursuit of quality, more and more consumers have learned to look at the ingredient list, and high-quality dairy products and simple ingredient lists have also become the scoring standards for the public to buy ice cream.
To this end, Nandu reporters randomly selected five kinds of ice cream, covering haagen-Dazs, Zhong Xuegao, Li Da Tangerine, Helu Xue, Menglong and other five brands at home and abroad, through energy, protein, trans fatty acids and other three aspects of comparison, and carry out subjective evaluation, for consumers "demining".
The results show that the overall performance of domestic ice cream is excellent.
In terms of calories, the two domestic ice creams Li Da Tangerine and Zhong Xue Gao have less calorie content per 100g, followed by Häagen-Dazs, and Lu Xue and Menglong ranked fourth and fifth respectively.
In terms of protein, for the first time in the ingredient list, there are three brands such as Zhong Xuegao, Häagen-Dazs, and Li Da Tangerine, of which Zhong Xue has the highest protein content, reaching 6.3g/100g, and the top three ingredients are dairy products.
In terms of trans fatty acids, it is gratifying that all products do not contain trans fatty acids and can be eaten with confidence.
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Subjective evaluation of five ice creams
In order to fully present the flavor and taste of ice cream, Nandu recruited five ice cream enthusiasts as a jury to carry out subjective blind evaluation, and comprehensively evaluated it from three dimensions: milk flavor, taste richness and sweetness.
In order not to skewer between the ice creams, blind reviews require each ice cream tasting to rinse the mouth. The scoring rule is that the jury gives a score for each dimension of each brand, then calculates the average score of each brand in each dimension, and finally calculates the overall average score of each brand.
1. Milky flavor is strong
Because the main ingredient is dairy products, the milk flavor of milk ice cream is relatively rich and mellow. From the perspective of the thickness of the milk flavor, according to the score from high to low, they are: Zhong Xuegao, Häagen-Dazs, Li Da Tangerine, He Lu Xue, and Meng long. (Among them, Häagen-Dazs and Lee Da Tangerine tied for second).) The jury said that Zhong Xuegao opened the package with a strong milk aroma, which is more suitable for milk lovers.
2. Freshness
A delicious ice cream, should be full of milk but sweet and not greasy, from the taste freshness point of view, according to the score from high to low order are: Haagen-Dazs, Zhong Xuegao, He Lu Xue, Li Da Tangerine, Meng long. (Among them, it is tied for third with Lu Xue and Li Da Tangerine).
3. Sweetness satisfaction value
Because different consumers have different requirements for the sweetness of ice cream, some people like to eat sweet, some people like to eat not sweet, so this round of score difference is large. From the perspective of sweetness satisfaction, the comprehensive average score from high to low is: Zhong Xuegao, Haagen-Dazs, Li Da tangerine, He Lu Xue, Meng long.
In general, Zhong Xuegao, with his delicate taste and milky chic flavor, won the title of "Light of Domestic Products" in ice cream.
Häagen-Dazs was followed by häagen-Dazs, with its rich mix-and-match taste and suitable sweetness, which was unanimously praised by the jury.
Li Da Tangerine ranked third, with a delicate and soft taste, full of milk aroma, medium sweetness and high cost performance.
In fourth place is Helu Xue, the biscuit on the outside is sweet and crunchy, and the ice cream vanilla on the inside is mellow in taste.
At the bottom of the total score this time is Menglong Ice Cream, the chocolate skin and vanilla ice cream are rich in taste, but some judges think that it is slightly bitter, creamy, too sweet, and the taste is relatively affected.
The following are the results of the taste evaluation of the five ice creams:
This ice cream has a strong milk aroma in the mouth, the taste is rich and silky, and it is refreshing and not greasy, so milk lovers can choose.
——Zhong Xuegao Light milk (milk flavor) ice cream
This ice cream has a delicate texture, and the fragrant chocolate-flavored biscuits blend closely with vanilla-flavored ice cream, and the mix and match are very rich, but the price is average.
--Häagen-Dazs Cookie Cream
This ice cream is delicate and soft, full of milk, medium sweetness and good value for money.
——Lee Da Tangerine Milk flavored ice cream
This ice cream has a sweet crust and a full-bodied vanilla flavour.
——And Lu Xue Cute multi-vanilla flavored ice cream
The chocolate skin is crunchy but slightly bitter, creamy, too sweet, and the taste is relatively affected.
——Dream Dragon Vanilla Flavored Ice Cream