23 pounds of ice cream eaten annually by average American

Number of the Day - 23 pounds of ice cream eaten annually by average American

July 22, 2019: July is National Ice Cream Month, and yesterday was National Ice Cream Day. This celebration was launched with a proclamation by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.^[1] Today, the average American consumes 23 pounds of ice cream annually.^[2]

According to the International Dairy Foods Association, the 10 most popular flavors of ice cream are:

Vanilla
Chocolate
Cookies N’ Cream
Mint Chocolate Chip
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Buttered Pecan
Cookie Dough
Strawberry
Moose Tracks
Neapolitan

Not surprisingly, June and July are the busiest months for ice cream production. But, over the course of a year, 898 million gallons of ice cream are produced.

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