Ice-cream vs Frozen Yogurt
Ice creams are frozen desserts prepared from dairy products, such as milk, cream, fruits, flavors and other ingredients. Frozen yogurt is a frozen dessert prepared from yogurt, rather than cream.
Which is healthier?
Today, frozen yogurt is available in several flavors and styles, just like ice cream. Both ice cream and frozen yogurt are known to be nutritious with amounts of high quality protein, calcium, riboflavin and some other essential vitamins and minerals. While ice creams contain 10-18% of fat content by weight, frozen yogurt usually has lesser amounts of fat content. Fat-free yogurts also exist, however, they often have even more added sugar compared to other varieties.
Which is tastier?
While Frozen yogurt is much healthier than ice-cream, it also has a yogurt like consistency and tart taste that resulted in complaining customers.
Fat vs Taste.
Frozen yogurt comprises yogurt culture, milk fat (comprises about 0.5-6% of yogurt), milk solids (form 8-14% of yogurt's volume), gelatin, sweetener, coloring, corn syrup and flavoring. The milk fat accounts for the yogurt's richness and the milk solids provide proteins for smoothness, increased resistance to melting and lactose for sweetness. Ice-cream, however, has milk fat (10-16 %), milk solids (9-12 %), sweeteners (12-16%), stabilizers and emulsifiers (0.2-0.5%), water (55-65 %), which comes from milk or other ingredients. All the ingredients are mixed and stirred slowly while cooling, thereby preventing formation of large crystals and conducing to smoothly textured ice cream.
Which should you choose?
Frozen yogurt, with its additional benefits over ice cream of greater digestibility, low fat content and presence of probiotic cultures has caused it to be favored over regular ice creams. However, it is important to note that a great amount of sugar is added in frozen yogurt, which does not make it as healthy as regular yogurt. It is best to view frozen yogurt (health wise), midway between plain yogurt and ice cream. It is best to maintain a balanced consumption ration. Each is known for its own benefits, so enjoy them proportionately.
Information from website:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/frozen-yogurt-vs-ice-cream.html
