Fast Facts: All About Ice Cream, Have a Very Happy National Ice Cream Day!!!
July is National Ice Cream Month in the U.S. and today (Sunday, July 18, 2010) is National Ice Cream Day.
Wow your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, and/or the person next to you in line at the ice cream parlor with some fast facts about ice cream and a bunch of other frozen items.
+ "About 1.54 billion gallons of ice cream, including both hard and soft-serve, were produced in 2008."
+ "Based on ice cream consumption figures, the top five individual flavors in terms of share of segment in the United States are: vanilla (28.7%), chocolate (10.4%), cookie n' cream (4.4%), strawberry (3.9%) and chocolate chip mint (3.3%)."
+ "According to 2008 U.S. production figures, regular ice cream accounts for the largest share of the frozen dessert market, at 61.1%. Reduced-fat, light, low-fat and nonfat ice cream account for 25.4% of the market, followed by frozen yogurt (4.8%), water ice (3.8%), sherbet (3.9%) and other (0.9%)."
+ "In 2008, California once again produced the largest volume of ice cream and related frozen desserts in the United States, followed by Indiana, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Missouri."
+ "Total U.S. exports of ice cream reached more than 55,800 metric tons in 2008 - worth about $57 million."
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