I Scream for Ice Cream!

Guests: Jeffrey Worthen, Dairy Production Manager, Brigham Young University; Justin Williams, Owner, Rockwell Old Fashioned Ice Cream Company; Scott Rankin, PhD, Professor of Food Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison The average American eats 23 pounds of ice cream every year. You might think its simplicity is what makes it so popular – creamy, sweet and cold. But ice cream is one of the most complicated foods to manufacture – from the ice crystals and air bubbles that have to be just-right, down to the flavor that can’t over-power, but needs to be strong enough to please frozen taste buds.