ICE and heavy whipping cream

(Rebecca ) #14

I wasn’t sure what ICE was either! Now I get it.
I actually will add 1/4 C HWC to a Virgil’s Rootbeer Zero on occasion and have a “float”!
I imagine it would be tasty in your beverage also.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #15

The maltodextrin would put me off this product. It is sugar, after all, and I have problems with sugar addiction.

Also as @Aqua_chonk says, my taste has changed so much that sweet things taste far to cloying these days. This is actually all to the good, since my drug of choice used to be glazed doughnuts.

I suppose the same effect could be achieved by mixing heavy cream, Seltzer water, and possibly a dash of artificial sweetener, but basically what one ends up with is diluted (and possibly sweetened) heavy cream. It’s okay, but it just doesn’t appeal to me.

(Robin) #16

Ohhhhhh…… never mind. I never heard of ICE. And don’t want those sweeteners.

#17

These floats are still so weird to me, we don’t have those.

I would have problems with both sweeteners and a serious sweetness too and I just don’t eat very processed stuff with a long ingredients list especially not for a drink but that’s me.
Each to their own. I can imagine it’s a good idea for someone. I would only use it if the alternative is worse (like, feeling miserable. or just drinking something with sugar). I like cleaner keto though I am not an extremist about that.

#18

Thanks l appreciate your input.

#19

Thanks

(Wendy) #20

It is really good. Too bad they have to ruin it with sucralose and maltodextrin. I was drinking the Black berry one. Until I had some complications due to the sucralose. And my niece had a bad reaction to it also. Really makes you think to ck all ingredients. Now adays they try to sneak things into foods that say sugar free! For instance. Cool Whip sugar free. Take a look at the ingredients. You might be surprised.
:grimacing:

(Stickin' with mammoth) #21

Yeah, sucralose triggers an insulin response in many, definitely does in me.

Cool Whip is industrial boat caulk, it’s completely nasty. It’s got more vegetable oil in it than cream, you can feel it coating your tongue like Vaseline. When’s the last time you craved a batch of whipped cream and yelled, “Honey! Where’s the soybean oil, I need to make something to dip strawberries in!”

You want delicious, fluffy whipped cream? Tip a cup of it into a blender with a teaspoon of vanilla and some stevia and pulse until you gotta scoop it out with a spatula. Then grab the strawberries.

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#22

If I want fluffy whipped cream, I whip it with a tad of vanilla aroma (I can’t help it, I like the taste, it’s perfect for me)… I hate most sweeteners with a passion and anyway, cream already has sugar in it, it’s sweet enough after a decade of low-carb and some carnivore trials :smiley:
Strawberries will come in June, that’s one reason I do my best to do carnivore until then (okay, cherry, sour cherry and raspberry are bigger reasons, strawberry has hype and it smells nice but often not so great, they really require sweetening when used with cream. I think. Maybe not after 1.5 months of carnivore-ish. My last strawberries are smaller and sweeter…).

Pretty pic, by the way (“no fruit” day #2 for me, I wanna reach maybe 45-50 but I can look :smiley: And smell. I smelled banana today, it was nice. It goes great with raspberries as it’s known. Great sweetener too… If one can use moderation like I can, of course and have my sweetness perception).

I honestly don’t understand all that vegetable oil stuff. Margarine totally tastes like the watered down plant oil it is. Once I tasted a sandwich on an event, it had awesome home-raised fatty pork on it and underneath margarine… It was, like, the embodiment of sin. But maybe I am too sensitive.

(Bob M) #23

How would you know?

(Stickin' with mammoth) #24

Observation, experience, savvy, research, desire for betterment. Duh.

(Bob M) #25

How do you measure insulin?

(Stickin' with mammoth) #26

I used to be one of those types who stressed over numbers. I used to get on the scale every morning, I used to check my blood pressure every night, I used to count calories, macros, track vitamins, calculate BMI, wrap a tape measure around my wrists and ankles to monitor edema, I used to stress about bra sizes, jeans sizes, belt notches, I used to spend an egregious amount of money getting my blood tested, my bodyfat tested, my hair tested, my skin tested, my saliva tested.

It tested my patience.

Turns out, I’m damned accurate just monitoring bodily signs. I know how an insulin spike feels in my system from experience and I’m good with that. I trust me. I’m all that matters in this race.

(Bob M) #27

It does appear sucralose might not be great. All of these studies indicate sucralose has negative effects on insulin processing:

So, I retract everything I said about sucralose. Sorry about that.

#28

That’s not nice.

(Stickin' with mammoth) #29

I appreciate that. I actually have a bunch of relevant references bookmarked but they are buried in thousands upon thousands of other low carb bookmarks so I obviously have some sorting to do.

#30

I’d find something else other than ICE to do it with. Any brand that doesn’t cut the sweetener with malodextrin. Maltodextrin is the absolute highest on the Glycemic index, ranging from 110-136! Major insulin spiking nightmare and not Keto friendly at all.

#31

Thank you any suggestions?

(Stickin' with mammoth) #32

There are unsweetened carbonated seltzer waters with fruit essences, you could just add your own sweetener. I don’t recall names off the top of my head but they’re usually stocked next to sodas. Just check the nutrition label to make sure you’re getting a zero cal product.

My own grocery store has several generic and brand names of that type. A good concoction is to mix a lemon-lime and cherry one together or lemon-lime with orange.

#33

I use Swerve sweeteners, all three kinds (granular, brown sugar, and confectioners.) It’s erythritol, a sugar alcohol, buy out of all the sugar alcohols it’s the best one, with the least digestive upset. Your body processes it much differently, and rids it via your urine in under 24 hours. It also has a glycemic index of only 1. All the sweeteners that are 0 on the glycemic index are either way too potent for me or leave a sickly aftertaste that I hate. Erythritol is the only substitute I’ve ever used that doesn’t have some funky aftertaste. And usually the natural things like stevia need to be cut with something else because of its potency. (200-300x sweeter than sugar.) But erythritol is only 70% as sweet so doesn’t have to be mixed with anything. I choose to use straight erythritol because there is nothing else in it. I don’t know if other brands of it are different tasting, but I have had such success with Swerve that I never looked back.

As for other drinks like ICE, I wouldn’t know of much because I don’t shop much for drinks. I home make everything, even sweetened condensed milk, :joy: so I bet there are fabulous recipes out there for something similar.