Article: We all scream for ice cream!

Ice cream is a popular frozen dairy food. It consists mostly of milk products, sugar and water. Ingredients called emulsifiers and stabilizers hold the mixture together. Ice cream manufacturers make their product in hundreds of flavors, but about half the ice cream sold in the United States is vanilla. Chocolate and strawberry rank next in popularity.

No one knows when ice cream was first made. There are claims that in the first century, Nero enjoyed an "ice-cream-like dessert." Nero had servants run to the mountains for fresh snow and then race back to the palace before it melted so he could enjoy the frozen treat topped with fresh fruit. In 1295 the Italian trader Marco Polo returned to ...

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