When a tub of ice cream melts and becomes liquid, why is it ruined even after you freeze it back again?

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When you freeze the ice cream after it melts from store bought and becomes completely liquid, it doesn’t stay the same way. It just isn’t ice cream anymore, there’s no cream, it becomes like frozen ice lolly kinda texture; completely different from the texture it comes in ie. Soft, fluffy, milky, creamy.

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Just to add: when ice cream freezes as it’s being made, any bacteria in there go into a state of suspended animation. When ice cream thaws, the bacteria comes out of that state and goes absolutely ape shit multiplying, far far quicker than before they went into that state. When you freeze it again, you’ve got a hive of suspended bacteria. So never eat refrozen ice cream, it will get you.

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