Mangalore, Dec 10: Mangalore-based Ideal Ice Cream secured a triumph of five awards at the Great Indian Ice Cream Contest 2013, an all-India Ice Cream Competition held on December 3 at Gurgaon, New Delhi, held under the aegis of Indian Dairy Association.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, proprietor of Ideal Ice Cream S Mukund Kamath said that out of six different categories, the ice-cream company had bagged awards in five categories, namely – Standard Vanilla Ice Cream, Standard Vanilla Frozen Dessert, The Best Chocolate, Premium Ice Cream and Innovation category.
“What makes this achievement special is that the vanilla ice-cream was chosen the best among entries from more than 70 top-notch ice-cream companies in India. This contest was the fourth of its kind and the biggest in the world in terms of number of contestants. Overall, Ideal Ice Cream, Mangalore holds the distinction of winning the most number of awards in the contest,” he said.
He said that the ice-creams were primarily judged on the flavour and aroma, texture and body and in presentation. While the vanilla ice-cream of this company was voted the best in the class, Ideal Ice-cream also scooped up the gold award for this ice-cream and also for Vanilla Frozen Dessert. It also won a silver award each for Belgian chocolate and jackfruit payasam (innovation category), he said.
The competition was organised in joint partnership with DuPont Nutrition and Health – a leading supplier of ingredients to the global dairy industry.
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