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Many of have enjoyed soft serve ice cream for as long as we can remember. However, once you find out what is in it, it may change everything!

The Ingredients In Soft Serve Ice Cream Include: 

We took a look at the ingredients found in McDonald’s and Dairy Queen soft serve:

Polysorbate 80 is used as an emulsifier in foods and cosmetics. It’s added to soft serve to prevent milk proteins from completely coating the fat droplets.

Mono- and diglycerides come from fatty acids. They’re used as another emulsifier. They help combine ingredients containing fat with ingredients containing water.

Carrageenan is a carbohydrate extracted from red seaweed. It’s used for its gelling, stabilizing and thickening properties.

Guar gum is made from the endosperm of the guar bean. It’s used as a thickening agent. The use of it in diet pills was banned in the 1980s because it was dangerous, but small amounts of it  like in soft serve have been established as safe.

Cellulose gum comes from the cell walls of plants such as wood pulp and cottonseeds. It is another thickener.

Sodium Phosphate is used in many foods and serves many purposes. It can be used as a texturizer, an emulsifier or a leavening agent.

Finished!

The ingredients found in soft serve may make it not as appetizing as you once thought it was. Do you like soft serve?

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Article Source: Huffington Post