Fraunhofer Lab Debuts Healthful Ice Cream Made from Flowers Instead of Milk
Ice Cream of the Future Fraunhofer researchers have developed a non-dairy ice cream containing lupin proteins. Fraunhofer Labs 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...