Ice Cream Geek Blog | Stabilizers in Ice Cream
Most commercial ice creams contain things like guar gum, locust bean gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum, polysorbate 80, monoglycerides, and diglycerides. What are these scary-sounding things, and why are they in our ice cream? In the ice cream business, these are all known as "stabilizers", and they mainly help with two