Childhood memories of sticky hands from melting ice cream cones could soon become obsolete, thanks to a new food ingredient.
Scientists have discovered a naturally occurring protein that can be used to create ice cream that is more resistant to melting than conventional products. The protein binds together the air, fat and water in ice cream, creating a super-smooth consistency.
The new ingredient could enable ice creams to keep frozen for longer in hot weather. It could also prevent gritty ice crystals from forming, ensuring a fine, smooth texture like those of luxury ice creams. The development could allow products to be manufactured with lower levels of saturated fat -- and fewer calories -- than at present.
With luck this additive won't cause the same issues past additives have.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:50AM
It was previously mentioned that the way to get ice cream to melt slower is to put in less of the expensive stuff--specifically, less cream.
Why WalMart Ice Cream Doesn't Melt [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:57AM
I'll take the fancy nevermeltice protein additive!
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(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:59AM
or just chill marshmallow and pretend its ice cream =D
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:54AM
Dunno about you but it doesn't matter what the new ingredient is to me. Eating any kind of ice cream will have me able to shit through a screen door without hitting a wire. Lactose is not my boon companion.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by frojack on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:58AM
Thanks for that imagery, I think.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:20PM
You think that's bad? Try eating a few dozen black licorice vines and wait a few hours... Liquid tar!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:13AM
"My life is not your problem", buzzy says.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by q.kontinuum on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:17AM
Aaargh! Surgery! Take the pictures out of my head!
On another note: There is something like lactose free milk and cream (thus: lactose free, milk/cream bases ice cream), and also lactose intolerance is caused by lack of the enzyme "lactase", which can be consumed together with lactose to avert the negative non-impact on wires.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Wierd0n3 on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:47AM
My aunt is lactose intolerant, and she gets away with eating with the kids by having yoghurt with active cultures. seems they can keep working even after you eat them. just make sure it says "contains active cultures"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:02AM
> Eating any kind of ice cream will have me able to shit through a screen door without hitting a wire.
So, you are saying that ice cream gives you the mighty butthurt?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2015, @10:47AM
I see what you did there. And it's funny.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:14AM
Ice cream isn't the best for the lactose-tolerant either. Sure, it tastes good, and we can subsequently shit on screens and hit them, but all the sodium leaves one with hot dehydration and cottonmouth afterward.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:43AM
> all the sodium leaves one with hot dehydration and cottonmouth afterward.
If your ice cream has added sodium it is fucked up.
Ice cream consists of 4 ingredients - milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks.
And then whatever flavoring - like vanilla, chocolate, ginger, mint, pistachios, etc
When you make homemade ice-cream, you add salt to the ice in the bucket in order to keep melt-water temperature below freezing.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 03 2015, @06:26PM
Damn, The Buzzard is so far off the right he's even intolerant to lactose!
(Joke blatantly stolen from Clone High)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:37PM
That's funny, that is. Modded so.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by FrogBlast on Thursday September 03 2015, @03:58AM
It's 2015 - I don't let my house get above 75 in the summer, and I dont worry about saturated fat. What I want is a high-fat icecream with less sugar.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:21AM
I still leave the house in the summer to enjoy the warm weather. Admittedly, here in Europe even outside the temperature is never above 75 (because we measure in Celsius), but it gets pretty hot, and slower-melting ice-cream would be welcome.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:00AM
> What I want is a high-fat icecream with less sugar.
You are in luck. It is sugar that makes ice cream creamy. Anyone who has been on the adkins diet knows that if you try to make ice cream with fake sugar you end up with rock-hard frozen milk that is at best popsicle-quality.
But the latest labfood sugar-substitute - allulose, also called psicose [npr.org] - is so chemically similar to sugar that it will keep ice cream soft.
The only question is, what else will it make soft?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:04AM
A cheaper alternative [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:53AM
I just want more strawberries in my strawberry ice cream. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 100 years from now we'll have
some magnificent creation of science, the additive won't give you cancer, and it'll taste as good
as it possibly could. The $billionaire that comes up with it will be quoted as, "If I had asked
my customers what they wanted, they would have said more strawberries", and everyone will
nod in appreciation of his wisdom. Either that, or they'll STILL be wishing it had more strawberries.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:11AM
Good to see that scientists are working on first-world problems like making slower-melting ice cream rather than solving world hunger or something.
No, I really mean that -- people who can't be fed shouldn't have been born. Meanwhile, I'll be snackin' on my delicious Rocky Road and Butter Pecan. Ahhhh, my belly is nice and full now. Sucks to be a starvefag right now!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:16AM
Eat strawberry sorbet/sherbet instead.
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(Score: 1) by istartedi on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:26PM
Thank-you, Marie Antoinette. :)
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 03 2015, @04:36PM
You're always going to have a large amount of milkfat/solids in ice cream. Sherbet has a lot less milkfat and a lot more fruit.
Let you eat sherbet.
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Tuesday September 08 2015, @06:52AM
If it were just about maximizing strawberries I could... wait for it... eat strawberries. Strawberry level: 100. Achievements unlocked: health. fruit.
My original comment isn't about simply maximizing strawberries. It's about having ice cream with more strawberries in it. Not sherbet, which isn't the same taste and texture. Not just eating a strawberry.
I'm sorry if that wasn't properly implied; but I feel as though there was no way to avoid having us go down this rhetorical path and that this might be an instance of my un-named law of the Internet [slashdot.org]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by deimios on Thursday September 03 2015, @05:28AM
If not even jet fuel can melt this new icecream then how will it melt inside my mouth? Not a fan of brainfreeze.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday September 04 2015, @04:40PM
To avoid brainfreeze, you want it NOT to melt. Recall, if you will, that the phase transition takes in energy, and if it is happening in your mouth, the nearest physical region will be where the energy comes from.
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(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday September 04 2015, @04:45PM
Whoops, no, you're right, I have it backwards. You lose energy in the freeze not the thaw process.
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(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday September 04 2015, @06:05PM
OK, OK, it's actually quantum-schrodinger. It's only going to cause brainfreeze by melting if you're in the universe in which the cat lived, otherwise it will be both colder and hotter simultaneously, resulting in a vortex which will reverse the polarity of your lobes to turn you from right-handed into left-handed or vice versa. So don't eat easy-melt ice cream before a ball game, just to be safe.
It's Friday before a holiday weekend, that's all I can say.
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(Score: 1) by Osamabobama on Thursday September 03 2015, @06:47PM
So where is this mythical pipeline of slow-melting ice cream? Wisconsin?
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