This form of food intolerance luckily doesn’t prevent sufferers from enjoying a good home-made gelato. All that’s needed is a bit of common sense and the discipline to follow the rules for any other foods. 

It is mainly women, more careful over calories and the nutritional characteristics of food, who are hand-made gelato’s biggest fans, considering it a “venial” sin, impossible to go without.

Hand-made gelato is a balanced food, made up of a series of simple natural ingredients. As such, it has all of the nutritional characteristics of foods – proteins, sugars, fats: it is obvious that eating too much of it can affect your waistline, just like for any other food. A few calculations can help you keep the peace with your scales: here’s how to do it.