Last time I made ice cream myself it required an insane amount of table sugar. I tried less sugar and it didn’t have the right consistency. Sugar is needed to keep ice crystals from forming.
If you want GOOD ice cream, you need sugar. Or maybe antifreeze. But I’d rather have the sugar.
Yes. It has a massive amount of sugar but the “cream” in ice cream is fat. The fat slows the absorption of sugars enough to make it actually lie glycemic index
I use inulin fiber sweetened with stevia and monk fruit [1], which measures 1:1 for sugar with equivalent sweetness, and the results are excellent.
I know what you mean, though. Years ago I used to just use liquid stevia, and texture was never quite the same.
More to the parent comment's point, there's a big difference between ice cream and something like hard candy or soda. Calories being equal, ice cream (even with full sugar) is going to be much better for you due to the proportionally higher fat and lower sugar content. A friend of mine once lost a lot of weight by going on an "ice cream diet", which wasn't quite keto but I imagine likely a bit closer to it than a standard American diet.
