From Gastro Obscura:
The secret is strawberries.
Some things just make all kinds of sense: What goes up must come down. Planets orbit the sun. Order turns into chaos. Frozen things melt. Except, that is, when they don’t.
Japanese scientists seem to be breaking the laws of food and physics with their newest ice cream venture: popsicles that don’t melt for hours. The secret is strawberries. According to the daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun, scientists at Biotherapy Development Research Center Co., in Kanazawa, happened on the method almost entirely by accident.
The tragic 2011 earthquake and tsunami ravaged strawberry farms in Miyagi Prefecture, leaving a lot of unsellable fruit. The Research Center tried to find ways to use the damaged harvest, and recruited a local pastry chef to see what he could do with polyphenols, organic chemicals extracted from the berries....
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The Japanese are into their strawberries. As we saw in "A Very Japanese Vertical Farm Raises $50 Million":
....108 Strawberries Sell for $13,700 at Japanese Auction
