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Color-changing Ice Cream: It’s All About That Base (and Acid)

OK, so that’s not color-changing ice cream. It’s a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich. So sue me.

It’s said that we eat first with our eyes. It’s also said that there’s nothing new under the sun. There are a lot of sayings, is my point, but this isn’t an article about that. It’s an article about color-changing food.

“But wait,” I hear some of you saying. “Food already changes color. How do you think we get brown bananas?” To which I reply that nobody likes a smart aleck. Or something about “out of the mouths of babes,” assuming you’re a babe. Because you’re not far off from some of the ways that food scientists are using to take color-changing foods to the next level, particularly in the frozen food aisle.

How Color-changing Ice Cream Works