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Pages THE HALTON HILLS HOMESTYLE Saturday September 15 1990 Ice cream makers have improved quality It come a long way Ice cream that is Used to be you had a choice of vanilla chocolate or strawberry butterscotch if you were lucky Today you could spend the better part of a lifetime trying to choose from heavenly hash col ada strawberry cheesecake or bub- blegum delight The variety of ice cream flavors available today is testimony to the advances in ice cream production over the past few decades says Doug Goff a of food scientist specializing in ice cream Changes in the way ice cream is processed have not improved the product s quality but have open the way for manufacturers to dream up a few hundred on the ice cream theme Along with changes in the wa ice cream is manufactured have come changes in the way it s distributed says Goff Ice cream used go straight to the corner store from a local manufacturer then quick home to the icebox it goes Biologists fight pollen spread Pollen grains in the air some people noses but pollen from genetically undesirable trees ges the Ontario forestn industn a headache worth millions of dollars a year of Guelph researchers are to find wass to ease that headache stopping the haphazard spread of pollen From bad trees to good ones biologists Piter Kan and Franco DiGioanni are flung with the Ontario Tree 1m Council and the Natural Resources to stuck the of pollen in jack pine seed Jhurds in Northern Ontario insure it the best trees used to replant in area afUr cut ting foresters collect seeds from plus trees those that are growing straight tall in the wild seeds ire planted in seed or chards in northern or an grown into seedlings in greenhouses before bung replanted m Hi rchirds Thin ire pampered too begin to produce seeds ire jnd grown into seedlings for operations It hoped will hje the same desirable traits as ihilr grandparents The problem is that the genetically superior trees in the or are surrounded a forest containing infinor trees Trees aren fussy so don t care whether pollen comes from com desirable or short and twisted stock From 30 to per cent of the seeds are set from pollen con tam mating the orchards but no one has come up with an effective of excluding it Before they can find ways to ex elude contamination the resear must determine just how much is occurring Last spring they set pollen traps blocks of wood with sticky slides on four sides a jack pine seed orchard north of Sault Sle Mane Ont As their data accumulate in subse quent years the researchers will modify a computer model designed Environmental Canada to predict aircraft spraying drift from factories to delivery trucks to grocery store loading docks to display cases to your shopping to your car and then finally to your freezer Along the way there are many opportunities for the ice cream to partially melt and refreeze causing unpalatable ice crystals to form To inhibit crystals manufacturers add stabilizers to their products used to be the stabilizer of choice now producers use polysaccharides originating from plant gums and seaweed You II see them listed on the label under such names as locust bean gum guar gum and The other odd sounding names on the label are which give ice cream its smooth consistent egg was used but manufacturers toda use mono and diglcendes or Poljsorbate which are fats and To the listed on the label ma seem but aitualh up less than one half of one per cent of the weight of the ice Goff The rest is cream milk condensed milk sugar and corn And all add In ha been tested for safet So next lime re hanging around an ice cream counter t spend jour time whether the treat is safe to eat Con instead on the all crucial decision of what flavor to And whether that be one scoop or two And whether have it in a cone or a cup And whether Can someone get us some chairs This is going to take aw F i i iJmm PROTECT AGAINST AIR INFILTRATION and costly energy by baling area leakage be occurring Touch Foam from Convenience Products is an Itpurpose instant foam insulation and sealant which is both economical and east use Illustrated are of the common uses for Touch i Foam Around windows pipes and electrical SEPTEMBER SPECIAL LPINE H0MES PRCED homes at Don t miss this opportunity to live in Scenic Rockwood Only 40 minutes west of the air port Follow signs from Hwy 7 at south edge of Rockwood For information call 5198246185 824 0848 Closed Sundays HOME OF THE WEEK BOB MORROW S0N CARPENTRY LTD KITCHENS BATHROOMS Decks Additions Doors and Windows CUSTOM CARPENTRY Lie Ho 1103108 ARMSTRONG AVE GEORGETOWN Bus Res KINGSWAY CONTRACTING Commercial Industrial Residential New Construction Additions Renovations Country Lot Available 8785222 For Spring Booking AUTO PROPANE RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL GUARANTEED SUPPLY GUARANTEED HOUR SERVICE 8782318 guelph 8227780