Romanian innovative product: cough calming ice-cream, developed by students
The students at the Faculty for Food Science and Engineering within the Lower Danube University of Galati have created the blueberry ice-cream with rose essential oil, having cough calming properties.
According to the creator of the innovative product, Isabela Anghel, a Master student in Nutrition, in the second year at the Faculty for Food Science and Engineering, the blueberry ice-cream with rose essential oil is 100 percent natural, has no preservatives, stabilisers or colouring substances.
"It's a blueberry ice-cream in which we've introduced rose flavour in an encapsulated form, it is an innovation, in fact. The rose flavour is not often used for ice-cream and we hope it will be the summer sensation. The innovation consists of encapsulating the pure rose oil in powder form so that it does not lose its characteristics and can be completely found in the ice-cream. The aroma of the rose essential oil will gradually be released and will leave a very pleasant aftertaste, which will last a few hours after eating the ice-cream. The taste comes mostly from milk and blueberries, but because of this rose aroma it has soothing, calming, cough-relieving properties, an ice-cream that is good for coughing, and soothes children's throats. It is a novelty. It has no preservatives at all, it is only milk-based, it is egg-based. It has no stabiliser, no dye, only natural products," Isabela Anghel said.
The innovative product will be presented in a series of scientific communications and a gastronomic contest, then it will be produced in an ice-cream parlour. "It might be sold in an ice-cream parlour, in a cone or glass. The price per scoop would be round 6 lei. It is a small price, taking into account that an ice-cream without any trace of milk costs 5 lei," Isabela Anghel pointed out.