Vanilla Ice Cream

Today, Private Home Health Care is thinking about a delicious “guilty” pleasure and that is vanilla ice cream.

Now it is true that we often talk about the health benefits of different foods.  Vanilla ice cream may not seem to you to be full of a long list of healthy nutrients but we may be able to find some good things along with some interesting facts.

Vanilla ice cream can leave you feeling calm and relaxed due to the vanilla aroma.

Additionally, there are potentially healthy benefits from the vanilla bean.  This includes possible antioxidant effects along with anti-inflammatory properties.

We believe that we (and you), need to have something sweet and delicious once in a while.  Vanilla ice is a treat you can eat on its own, in a sundae or on brownies.  

Now we want to share with you some interesting facts about the versatile vanilla ice cream.

• Vanilla is the most popular ice cream in the United States
• Vanilla from vanilla beans is the main ingredient of vanilla ice cream.
• Madagascar and Mexico are the leading producers of vanilla beans.
• Marco Polo brought vanilla back from Asia to Europe in the 17th century.
• Vanilla ice cream can be traced back to Persia though it was made with milk and rice.

We hope that you have enjoyed our discussion on vanilla ice cream enough that you might want to get a scoop or two to savor soon!