6 Italian Gelato Flavors To Taste While In Italy

I may have learned how to pick out good gelato from “fake” gelato while on a food tour in Rome, but I learned the art of tasting gelato and discovering new Italian gelato flavors while spending multiple summers exploring food in Bologna.

Thankfully, Italian portions are small compared to the melon-sized scoops of ice cream you get in the states.  So, it makes tasting multiple flavors more pleasurable to the palate as well as the waist line.

Initially, I confess, I stuck to flavors I easily recognized. Even without an Italian translator, I bet you too will instantly know flavors such as nutella, caffè, pistacchio, and limone. Cioccolato is pretty easy to decipher. But after having been in Bologna for nearly a month, I ventured out of the ordinary and tried some flavors I didn’t recognize in Italian, but they were favorites I instantly knew after tasting them. Next time you’re in Italy,

6 Italian Gelato Flavors To Taste While In Italy

1. Nocciola – hazelnut
2. Croccantino – caramel with crunchy nuts, either almonds or hazelnuts
3. Zabaione – egg cream, like a custard flavor
4. Stracciatella – vanilla with chocolate chips
5. Spagnola – vanilla with sour cherries (though the literal translation is “Spanish”)
6. Fragola – strawberry

And if the mere mention of those flavors aren’t enough to get your mouth watering, here’s some gratuitous food porn.  Candid iPhone photos of some of the gelati I couldn’t resist while in Italy.

And if the mere mention of those flavors aren’t enough to get your mouth watering, here’s some gratuitous food porn.  Candid iPhone photos of some of the gelati I couldn’t resist while in Italy.

 

The apartment in Bologna was provided by the Emilia-Romagna Tourism Board as part of the #BlogVille campaign created by iAmbassador. As always, my thoughts, opinions and enthusiasm for travel and food are entirely my own.