Italian food researchers have come up with an ice-cream they say will earn an honoured place in the healthy diet Italy is famous for.
"We've produced a perfect, nutritious and balanced mix in line with the Mediterranean diet," Attilio Del Re of Piacenza's Catholic University told the Italian press Monday.
Del Re's team spent six months taking X-rays and conducting electron microscope analyses of various mixes before they achieved their "optimised" gelato.
Of course, it also had to pass the researchers' taste tests.
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