Buenos Aires produces the gelato style ice cream know in Argentina as “helado”, a traditional ice cream made by immigrant Italian ice cream makers for over 100 years. Gelato is a frozen dessert composed mainly of whole fluid milk, cream, sugar and egg yolks.
Various high quality ingredients such as natural vanilla extract and chocolate among others, are carefully blended to achieve the delicious taste and smooth texture of the final product. Compared with ice cream, gelato has up to 80% less air which results in a denser, creamier, richer product.
Gelato also has up to 40% less fat content. Since fat content masks flavor , Gelato has more intense flavor than ice cream.
Sorbets are a variation of the basic Gelato where the dairy components have been replaced with water. Sorbets are made mainly with choice fruit and cane sugar.