Does Italian ice cream contain eggs?

We are going on holiday to Italy and my daughter has an egg allergy. Some ice creams here (tend to be the luxury ones) contain egg.Does Italian ice cream contain eggs?
Some do and some don't.


read carefully!





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelato





( Gelato is Italian ice cream)


When your there, just ask the vendor if it contains eggs.


Most don't, but dont chance it.


Sorbets are safe as safe can be.Does Italian ice cream contain eggs?
Italian ice - no dairy, no egg. Like sorbet. (They call sorbet ';Sorbetto';, BTW - Italian Ice may be an American invention.)





Gelato - made from milk, more dense than most ice cream, as it has less air.





Like ice cream . . . Wiki says ';Some gelato recipes call for eggs, although with the homogenization of the Italian gelato culture and mixes and stabilisers readily available and in use, eggs are being phased out as emulsifiers.';





So you're going to have to do the same thing you'd do here. Ask.





Enjoy your trip - learn to say ';please, thank you, bathroom'; and in your case ';Does this have eggs in it?'; in Italian.
Some do especially ';zabaione'; type is loaded with eggs.
As for the sorbet thing - ones I have made had egg white in them.





Just because it is not creamy and milky doesn't mean it doesn't have the white in it.








Ask if you can.


A granite which is just frozen slushy juice might be ok.
Umm, the ones I have usually do. It depends on the ice-cream. When you're in Italy, just ask the restaurant or wherether you're buying the ice-cream from, if the ice-cream contains egg.


Hope I helped :)
Fruity icecream don't usually contain eggs and sorbets don't contain milk or eggs but all other flavours will contain eggs