Ice cream is a volume-expanding frozen product made of drinking water, milk, milk powder, cream (or vegetable oil) and sugar as main raw materials, and added with a proper amount of food additives through mixing, sterilization, homogenization, aging, freezing and hardening. According to the milk fat content in the raw materials used, it can be divided into three types: full cream ice cream, semi-cream ice cream and vegetable fat ice cream.

Full cream ice cream is a product with drinking water, milk, cream and sugar as the main raw materials, and the milk fat content is above 8% (excluding non-milk fat). It can be divided into clear full cream ice cream, mixed full cream ice cream and combined full cream ice cream.

Semi-cream ice cream is a product with drinking water, milk powder, cream, margarine and sugar as the main raw materials, and the cream content is more than 2.2%. It is also divided into clear semi-cream ice cream, mixed semi-cream ice cream and combined semi-cream ice cream.

Vegetable fat ice cream is a product with drinking water, sugar, milk (plant milk or animal milk), vegetable fat or margarine as the main raw materials. It can also be divided into clear vegetable fat ice cream, mixed vegetable fat ice cream and combined vegetable fat ice cream.