McDonald's soft serve, while containing milk, sugar, and cream, typically falls into the "soft serve" category, which generally has a milk fat content ranging from 3% to 6%.

Its high fat content helps it achieve that creamy texture as well as hold its shape when scooped into a cup or cone. As Dairy Queen discloses on its website, its soft serve contains only 5% butterfat.

Soft serve put the “freeze” in Fosters Freeze, with its own mascot, a smiling ice cream cone named Little Foster. In 1951, back when the soft serve mix was made by Compton Dairy, there were ...

The Cone has been voted Cincinnati's best soft-serve ice cream and is known for their 50-year-old secret recipe, orange and vanilla ice cream.