ice milk
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Definition
- Noun:
- A frozen dessert similar to ice cream but made primarily with milk: "Ice milk" is a sweet, frozen food product. Its composition and texture are like ice cream, but it contains less milk fat because it is made mainly from milk instead of cream.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- For a lighter dessert, she chose a scoop of ice milk.
- This brand's ice milk is just as creamy as their regular ice cream but has fewer calories.
Advanced Usage
- As a product category: The term "ice milk" was historically used to distinguish lower-fat frozen desserts from ice cream, based on legal standards of milk fat content. In many places, this term has been largely replaced by marketing terms like "low-fat ice cream" or "light ice cream."
- Due to changing regulations, what was once labeled "ice milk" is now often found in the freezer aisle as "light ice cream."
Variants and Related Words
- Ice cream (n): A rich, frozen dessert made from cream, milk, sugar, and flavorings, with a higher milk fat content than ice milk.
- Frozen yogurt (n): A frozen dessert made with yogurt and similar in texture to ice cream or ice milk.
- Sherbet (n): A frozen dessert made from fruit juice, sugar, and a small amount of milk or cream.
Synonyms
- Light ice cream: A modern, common synonym for ice milk.
- Low-fat frozen dessert: A descriptive synonym.
Related Phrases
- "As refreshing as ice milk": A simile used to describe something cool and light.
- The breeze off the lake was as refreshing as ice milk on a hot day.
Noun
- similar to ice cream but made of milk