: What is the difference between ice cream, gelato, and sorbet? What is the difference between ice cream, gelato, and sorbet? They look different, but are they made differently?

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1) Custard ice-cream with eggs milk and cream.(Quite a high portion of eggs)
2) Ice-cream (dairy) 10% upwards of milk fat (milk & cream)
3) Gelato less than 10% butter fat but upwards of 16% sugar (needed to balance recipe)
4) Sorbet fruit, water and some milk to give it body
5) Water ice fruit water and sugar

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First of all, the names vary a bit from country to country, or the ingredients do.
I'll explain the most common names/ingredients.

The main difference is in the ingredients used. Sorbet is basically water + sugar + fruit, while ice cream and gelato is milk/cream + sugar + fruit. So the last two are more 'creamy', while sorbet is more 'icy'.

You can say that ice cream is a type of gelato, but there still is a difference. More sugar in gelato, more butterfat (the percentage of fat in the milk/cream) in ice cream.

You can read quite a lot about ice cream on wikipedia.

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Gelato is kind of Italian icecream, which has more sugar & Fat content .