Is Italian ice cream typically made with fresh fruit or other ingredients such as chocolate, nuts, small confections, cookies, or biscuits.
Gelato made with water and without dairy ingredients is known as sorbetto. Dairy gelato is made with cow's milk and contains 3-4% butterfat which is much less than North American style ice creams which range from 10% to 18%. Unlike ice cream gelato machinery whips almost no air into the gelato, resulting in a dense and extremely flavorful product.
Some people have the misconception that the word "gelato" is related to "gelatin" and that the latter is an ingredient, this is not the case "Gelato", comes from the word for "freeze" or "frozen".
The best gelato is made fresh daily and at Ono Gelato that is what we do. Using local and organic fruit whenever possible we have a wide variety of Hawaiian inspired non-dairy, vegan flavors. We also use organic whole milk and mostly organic ingredients to make our dairy based flavors like chocolate, coconut and stracciatella.
