Hurrah! Scientists have developed healthy ice cream that won’t melt
There are not many things worse than waiting than the horrible feeling of your longed for ice cream cone melting in your hands.
Ice cream treats are some of the best around, and kids big and small tend to be sent into an emotional tail spin when their chance at sugar-filled happiness rapidly melts away.
However, thanks to scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, this could be a thing of the past. Teams have been working together to come up with a recipe for ice cream that doesn’t melt and has less saturated fat.
They developed an ingredient that keeps ice cream colder for longer. Professor Cait MacPhee explains: ‘This is a natural protein already in the food chain. It’s already used to ferment some foods so it’s a natural product rather than being a ‘Frankenstein’ food.’
She added that while it is not entire non-melting, it will allow the ice cream to remain stable for longer.
“By using this protein we’re replacing some of the fat molecules that are currently used to stabilise these oil and water mixtures so it can reduce the fat content, but it shouldn’t taste any different.”
So, we could soon be living in a world where our ice cream won’t melt, and it will be better for us? What a time to be alive!
The only catch is that while the breakthrough is surely going to be quite a hit around the world, we may have to wait another three to five years before it becomes part of our everyday lives.
We’ll just be over here counting down the days then.
