Sounds yummy? What if I tell you that the main flavoring ingredient is vanillin (vanilla fragrance and flavoring) extracted from cow dung? Sounds like a lot of bullshit? Well, yes, they are the main ingredient! Still yummy?

The ice-cream was created by Toscanini's Ice Cream, considered as "the finest ice cream shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts", in honor of Mayu Yamamoto a 26 year-old researcher from Japan, and was introduced at the Ig Nobel 2007 ceremony Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan is the recepient of the 2007 Ig Nobel in Chemistry for her "Novel Production Method for Plant Polyphenol from Livestock Excrement Using Subcritical Water Reaction". Finally a research uses BS to make something good out of it!

Here is a small clip from Japanese TV about the achievement (in Japanese). Enjoy!

Last update : 09-10-2007 05:54

Keywords : Mayu Yamamoto, Ig Nobel, Vanillin, Ice cream, cow dung

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