vanilla ice cream

Why some vanilla ice cream are white,yellow and cream?

I think it's got something to do with whether egg yolks are used.

food coloring(s) added?

Hello All,
From what I've been told, true vanilla has black specks in it, and should be white.
Take Care,
Fieldthiste

Good question. So I asked the handsome and knowledgable Zman this, since he worked in the dairy business for many years. I thought the answer too was egg yolks........WRONG! The big manufacturers all use powdered egg. Apparently there could be a couple of varying factors, if real liquid vanilla was used (opposed to powdered)this could change the color, but the big reason is COLORING. MikeSh was right. Another interesting fact about ice cream is that it is injected with air in the freezer. This is called "overrun" and is done so the ice cream will not be so dense and also protects against ice crystals.
There's your Ice Cream 101 lesson for today.

Thanks for the lesson!

I think the reason I was thinking egg yolks is because I saw on tv or read somewhere a while back that French Vanilla ice cream is yellowish because of the use of eggs. I think that's also the case for vanilla frozen custard. I guess not for regular vanilla though.

Yeahhhh, I took a SWAG at that one and hit a home run

MikeS.