Two flavours at once!

Have you ever been in the situation where you're standing dumb struck at an ice cream shop and looking at all the yummy gelati staring at you - unsure which flavour to pick? You look in you're wallet and you've only got enough money for one flavour....choices, choices!! 

Well, fear no more food scientists have taken a technique commonly used in chewing gum to create a flavor-release ice cream—in this case vanilla with a burst of cherry.

The two-flavor, or “flavor release,” ice cream is an experimental product being tested by researchers at the University of Missouri.

Using a process known as “micro-encapsulation,” Elizabeth Fenner, a food science graduate student, and Ingolf Gruen, associate professor and chair of food sciences, developed the ice cream that starts as one flavor and—after immediately breaking down inside the mouth—releases a second flavour.

How awesome is that??