The ice cream was produced in a batch processing plant located
at the Vidal Ice Cream Machines and Products Company (Porto
Alegre/RS/Brazil). The dry ingredients were mixed in a plastic
container and added to pasteurized skim milk at 40 C. The mixture
was homogenized, pasteurized (pasteurizer 100 L/h capacity, Bertollo/
Brazil), matured (maturation tank with 100 L, Bertollo/Brazil),
placed in a discontinuous ice cream producer (GM200, Bertollo/
Brazil) and beaten and frozen at 5 C until the desired consistency
was achieved. The ice cream was placed in 2 L polypropylene pots
and stored at 18 C.