Is Vegetable Flavoured Ice Cream the New Way to Get Your Vitamins?

Is Vegetable Flavoured Ice Cream the New Way to Get Your Vitamins?
Innovative minds have turned seasonable vegetables we might otherwise have eaten in a salad or a stir-fry into ice cream, making it easier to eat veg and helping to reduce food waste. Wanchai/Shutterstock
Jessie Zhang
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Vegetable-flavoured gelatos starring cauliflower and pumpkin have stirred up heated debates this week at Australia and New Zealand’s largest horticulture conference and trade show, Hort Connections, where innovative businesses used foods that would’ve otherwise been thrown away to address food waste.

Three thousand attendees there sampled two flavours that were a harmonious combination of salty and sweet: cauliflower-vanilla bean and pumpkin-ginger bread.

Jessie Zhang
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Jessie Zhang is a reporter based in Sydney, Australia, covering news on health and science.
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