Bella Gelateria - Our Ingredients

Today, more than in the past, industry has found ways to make almost everything faster, cheaper and less complicated. While this may work for computers, cars or fast food, it does not hold true for gelato. At Bella Gelateria, we believe that the quality of the ingredients used to make gelato and sorbetto impacts the flavour, intensity and texture you taste.

At Bella Gelateria, we go to great lengths to find the best ingredients possible and we do not take any shortcuts to make our gelato or sorbetto fresh each morning. Yes, it costs more to make, yet we have chosen not to be the most expensive. Yes, it takes more time, but we believe in quality over quantity.

At Bella Gelateria, we have chosen to not use quick or fast methods and prefer, instead, to infuse our flavours and ingredients together. While this does require more time, the results create a deeper and more intense flavour profile. We have also chosen not to use pre-packaged frozen ingredients, industrially prepared pastes, commercially prepared mixes or flavouring, artificial stabilizers or additives, but rather we make our gelato and sorbetto from scratch working with raw ingredients.

We believe in the slow food movement and the 100-mile diet where possible, and we take the time to get to know our farmers and producers either at their farms or at the local Farmers Markets. The quality of our gelato and sorbetto depends on the quality of how our ingredients are grown; this is why our farmers and producers are so important to us at Bella Gelateria.

Yes we could take the cheaper and easier method, but you can taste the difference.

Also, the quality of the water we use with our sorbettos is just as important as the other ingredients. This is why we have chosen to use Canadian Springs Water. It would be easier and cheaper to simply turn on the tap or use a filter for the water. But then again, we see water as an important part of our recipes that make our sorbetto’s so clean and flavourful. While our normal drinking water is good and is constantly tested for unhealthy contaminants, it does have days when the water can be murky, and we just could not make a sorbetto that we would be proud of. Another reason we use Canadian Springs Water is that it has no traces of chlorine, an element which is used in the drinking water in the majority of Metro Vancouver municipalities.

At Bella Gelateria, we believe that to make great gelato you must first start with the best and freshest ingredients you can find locally or from around the world. We hope you agree.