Wendy’s quintessential malt treat :
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The Frosty is Wendy’s quintessential malt treat: the best part of ice cream and milkshakes, combined into one perfect dessert. Frostys are light but thick, cold and creamy, and there’s nothing quite like them at any other fast food place.
The Frosty, created by Wendy’s Founder Dave Thomas in 1969, and one of the original five products on the chain’s menu, is still one of the top 10 favorite desserts in the U.S. But since it’s a cross between a milk shake and soft-serve ice cream, expect it to contain the same amount of calories as a regular milkshake.
The main ingredients of a vanilla Frosty from Wendy’s are milk, corn syrup, cream, whey, guar gum and nonfat milk, as of 2015. The chocolate version consists of the same ingredients with the addition of alkali processed cocoa.
Meanwhile, a small vanilla Frosty is the lowest-calorie Frosty order at Wendy’s, with only 280 calories. See how you can order healthy at your favorite fast food chain.
When was the Frosty invented?
Frostys have been around for more than 50 years. Fred Kappus, CEO of the Kappus Company, began working for his father’s food service business in the late 1950s, and fans can thank him for the tasty frozen treat.
The secret ingredient in every Wendy’s Frosty—both Classic Chocolate and Vanilla—is vanilla. Kappus was apparently inspired by ice cream at a race track in Cleveland, to which Kappus’ company had supplied the ice cream machine. A sign on the ice cream machines at the track read, “SECRET FORMULA, FROSTED MALTED,” according to the Wendy’s blog.
As far as which other ingredients are in a chocolate Frosty, the Wendy’s website lists milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, nonfat dry milk, cocoa (processed with alkali), guar gum, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, natural vanilla flavor, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, sodium citrate, dextrose, and vitamin A palmitate.
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