Spanish physicist Manuel Linares created the ice-cream named Xamaleon, but he’s keeping quiet over how he came up with his creation.
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During an ice-cream-making course, Linares, who was a physicist and engineer before becoming a cook, decided he wanted to make a colour-changing version. His course instructor laughed at him, but Linares prevailed by successfully creating an ice cream that changes from blue to a purplish-pink as it melts.
Naming his new creation ‘Xamaleon’, Lenares claims that the ice cream is made from all-natural ingredients, meaning that the colour changes probably aren’t caused by any added chemical ingredients.
“As a physicist, I know that there are various possibilities that might work and I was delighted when I managed to crack it and create an ice cream that changes colour,” he said.
Although Lenares refuses to release the full details of the recipe, he has divulged some of the ice cream’s ingredients: strawberries, banana, pistachio, vanilla, caramel, cocoa and almonds. Those who’ve tasted it describe it as similar to tutti-frutti.
Whatever it is that makes Xamaleon take on its unique colour-changing properties remains a mystery, at least until Lenares secures a patent. All he’ll admit is that he uses what he calls a ‘love elixir’ that gets sprayed on the ice cream after it’s made. Temperature change affects acids in the ice cream and triggers a response that tells it to change colours.
Source: Sky News/Tech Times
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