No. Ice cream is food.

Ice cream is made from sugar, milk powder, eggs, flavors, starch, malt powder, gelatin, etc. as the main raw materials, and is made by mixing, adjusting, heating and sterilizing, homogenizing, lightly freezing, and injection molding freezing. of hard frozen meals with sticks.

There is a difference between ice cream and ice cream.

According to the definition of national food laws and regulations, ice cream and ice cream are different. Ice cream requires the total solids to be greater than 30%, while ice cream requires more than 16%; in ice cream, the fat and protein content cannot be less than 6% and 2.2% respectively, while ice cream has no requirement for this, only the total sugar content must be greater than 13% %.

History of ice cream:

It is said that the popularity of ice cream began in 1904. That year, at the World's Fair in St. Louis, the first American-made ready-to-serve ice cream machine appeared. Some people say that Americans began to eat ice cream at the end of the 19th century. It is said that when Washington took office as President of the United States in 1789, he paid a large sum of money to hire a black man who was skilled in making ice cream to make ice cream for him at the banquet.

The ice cream made by this black man was greatly appreciated by Washington. So the black man was worth a hundred times as much. Later, he set up his own shop to make ice cream and sell it, which was very popular.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Ice Cream