Posted 07.13.2011 at 12:58 pm
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Ice Cream of the Future
Fraunhofer researchers have developed a non-dairy ice cream containing lupin proteins.
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It’s been brutally hot here in the Midwest, with heat indices hovering in the 110-112 range for the past few days and signs pointing to another heat wave this weekend. So this new flower-based ice cream from Fraunhofer Labs sounds mighty appealing.
It has no dairy, gluten, animal fats or protein, and it’s cholesterol-free, says Fraunhofer. The ice cream is now on sale at a German supermarket chain.
“Lupinesse,” as it’s called, is derived from the seeds of the blue sweet lupin, known in this country as lupine. They flower as tall, thin rods — Texas bluebonnet is a lupine, for instance. The blue sweet lupin, which is indigenous to Europe, has a particularly high-protein seed, which is important for developing a creamy consistency, Klaus Mueller of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising, Germany, said in a press release. The protein also has cholesterol-regulating effects, he said.
Plant-based ice creams are obviously not a new idea — there are several types of soy, coconut and nut-based ice creams on the market, targeted for vegans and people with lactose intolerance. But this one is valuable because the plant protein has additional health benefits, and the plant itself has nitrogen-binding roots, so growing it can improve soil quality. Apparently lupin is considered the “soybean of the north” in Europe.
Scientists tried to produce food products from lupin in the 1990s, but they couldn’t make it work. The protein-rich seed of this particular lupin, plus a new production method developed at Fraunhofer Labs, made this new ice cream possible. It comes in Vanilla-Cherry, Strawberry-Mousse, Walnut Dream and Choco-Flake flavor. Too bad it has just as much fat as regular ice cream.
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Sweet! no pun intended. I want some!
Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978
"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC
I want to make some witty comment about wolves here, but really, I just can't...Ice Scream you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
Interesting product. I would love to try some yum.
Flowers seems to be involved in saving humans from the wormwood. Time will tell
Healthful? It's full of sugar, isn't it?
My Grandpa said God had put everything we need on earth (and he wasn't really religious.) We just have to find it, he said. That is why extinct animals and plants worried him. He felt that they may have held cures and had other uses that we may never get now they are gone.
@jefro, Do not forget that the earth is, for the most part, a closed system. The only way anything ever gets subtracted from the system is when we take it off planet, the only way anything gets added is when it crashes down or we bring it back from somewhere off planet. Everything is just being converted and recycled, over and over. Everything alive now, is due to something being dead. The forms these things take may change, but down at the chemical level, they are all the same. The number of "atoms" if you will has changed so very little that it wouldn't even be prudent to factor it into anything. There is no such thing as "man made", just "man assembled".
@scrotocol.. not too sure, the flower used is "naturally" sweet, which is better than HFCS any day! I'm sure they added some sweeteners however.
Playing Devil's Advocate since 1978
"The only constant in the universe is change"
-Heraclitus of Ephesus 535 BC - 475 BC
Did you try frozen banana passed trough Champion juicer (whipped/shredded)?