It’s pretty well-known that what we think of as “ice cream” in the United States isn’t really ice cream.
If you go to your local grocery store’s freezer section, you’ll notice that many of the packages that look like they contain ice cream don’t actually say so on the label. Instead, these packages will insist that their product is not ice cream but “frozen dairy dessert”—a distinction that allows them to fill the treat with vegetable oils and preservatives.
