New Ice Cream Changes Color When You Lick It
Scientist creates a new ice cream that changes color after licking.
Recently, a Spanish physicist and ardent ice cream lover Manuel Linares found a new flavor of the icy dessert that changes color after reacting with temperature changes and acids in the human mouth. Linares along with a group of researchers put funds together to make the tuti-fruity color changing ice cream 'Xamaleón' in just one week, reports the Phys.org.
The Xamaleón gradually transforms from light blue shade to lavender and purple tones to pinkish color. Linares admitted he was inspired by Charlie Francis, founder of 'Lick Me I'm Delicious', an ice cream that glows in the dark.
"I like playing in the lab and I thought I will try to emulate the British Charlie Francis and even go a little further and create an ice cream that changed color," he said, reports the CNET.
The color changing properties of the treat is due to the presence of a secondary ingredient called the "love elixir' that is sprayed on after a scoop of ice cream is placed on a cone. Sources say Xamaleón is made up of only natural substances and main components of the unique ice cream were not revealed by Linares. However, he said that various mechanisms like oxidation and acidity of the tongue play a huge part in its changing color.
"Any food will change color if it changes temperature, you encapsulate it or it oxidizes, "Linares told Cocinatis.
Xamaleón, along with many other exotic ice cream flavors, is sold in Linares' IceXperience joints opened in Blanes. The founder has already made Xamán using Peruvian and African medicinal plants that have aphrodisiac effects. Linares is reportedly working on making other interesting confectioneries and expanding his ice cream business.
