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Lab develops ice-cream made from flowers
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T.K. RandallJuly 15, 2011 ·
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Fraunhofer Labs has come up with a healthier type of ice-cream made from lupin flowers.
The new variety contains no dairy, gluten, animal fats or protein and is on sale in German supermarkets as a healthy alternative to conventional ice-creams. It isn't the first time scientists have tried to produce food from lupins either, in the 1990s the same thing was attempted albeit without much success.
“Lupinesse,” as it’s called, is derived from the seeds of the blue sweet lupin, known in this country as lupine. They flower as tall, thin rods — Texas bluebonnet is a lupine, for instance.
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