Gelati in Italy - safe in Pregnancy?

[alex8]

I know it has eggs in it. Are they raw and therefore unsafe in pregnancy. Or because it is frozen does it kill any salmonella? Or if its in Italy are there eggs better than ours anyway.

Am asking for a pregnant friend who has not got internet access and is off on her holidays soon.

when you make ice cream you use a egg custard base eg mix egg yolks with sugar than add warm milk & cream mix put back into saucepan heat stiring until mixture thicken this should be enough to cook egg yolks (can you tell what been doing today).

She should be ok. although its not recommended.

the eggs are prob better quality as tend to be free range.

tell her to avoid semifreddo as this contains raw egg whites, as can sorbets.

i hope this helps.

Actually a lot of Italian gelati is made with just a milk and cornflour base so it would probably be ok. I would tell her to steer clear of any whippy type machines as if they are not cleaned properly they can be a source of nasty food poisioning.

Crikey, I went to Rome when I was 16 weeks pg & ate LOADS of ice cream, didn't even occur to me it might on the not good in pregnancy list. Dd seems to have survived at least!

thats really interesting. thanks. I will pass it on. I hadn't heard of semifreddo. Its making me want to eat ice crem in italy again. I remember going to this fab place in rome near the Pantheon with so many different chocolate/nut based flavours that I was in heaven.