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... sale firm appeared. WHAT IS ICE-CREAM? Legal definitions for ice-cream vary from country to country. In the United States ice-cream is a standardized food which means that it has a legal standard of identity. Only products conforming to this legal standard definition can be labeled as ice-cream. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ice cream is "a food produced by freezing, while stirring, a pasteurized mix consisting of one or more of the dairy ingredients and other safe and suitable ingredients". Ice-cream contains not less than 1.6 pounds of food solids to the gallon and weighs not less than 4.5 pounds to the gallon. Ice-cream contains not less than 10 percent milkfat, nor less than 20 percent total milk solids. In the United States a product can be called ice-cream only when it contains milkfat. In other parts of the world such a stringent requirement for milkfat does not exist and vegetable fats are often used. The Nutrition Labeling and ...