Nearly 200 miles of roads have reopened in Death Valley National Park after they were damaged by a hurricane last year.
23.02.2024 - 23:37 / forbes.com
Plant food is everywhere, even in pre-packaged ice cream pints at the supermarket.
Ben & Jerry’s just announced a colorful new, limited batch pint, Marshmallow Sky, which contains a very special ingredient: Spirulina.
The bright blue ice cream has a marshmallow-flavored ice cream base, marshmallow swirls, plus gobs of chocolate and chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough, for all the chocolate goodness in each scoop. The electric hue is inspired by Ben & Jerry’s iconiccloud scene, as seen in scoop shops and ice cream packages worldwide.
Marshmallow Sky is officially Ben & Jerry’s brightest pint to date. The ice cream gets its electric blue color from spirulina extract, a blue-green algae that’s certainly having a moment in the culinary world. See: California health food store Erewhon’s viral $18 electric blue smoothie.
And while a scoop of Marshmallow Sky may not be a health food (even if it’s blended into a milkshake), spirulina is known for being an immunity booster and containing vitamins and minerals. Plus, it’s fun.
“This flavor is what we call a ‘double double’ of chunky goodness,” said Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Guru, Natalia Butler. “Our star marshmallow swirls that you can find two ways: both as the base flavor of the ice cream and as a swirl, plus cookie dough two ways with chocolate chip, and chocolate chocolate chip. It’s a Limited Batch, but with this kind of flavor appeal… it may be destined for further greatness.”
Originally, the flavor was created for Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops — it would look so beautiful on a waffle cone, and is now available at select supermarkets in the freezer section, for $4.99-$6.99 per pint, depending on location.
“This flavor was born for scoop shops, and it has been such a good hit that we had to bring it to the pint,” said Butler. “The blue comes from using spirulina, a natural ingredient, and this results in a beautiful cloud-like color that resembles our iconic Ben & Jerry’s sky! You will not regret trying this flavor.”
Marshmallow Sky is hardly the only blue ice cream available by the pint. St. Louis’ Clementine’s Naughty and Nice Ice Cream vends a Midwestern favorite, Blue Moon, nationwide. The $12 pint uses raspberry, lemon and almond extract in the fruity ice cream, plus spirulina algae for the electric blue color.
Nearly 200 miles of roads have reopened in Death Valley National Park after they were damaged by a hurricane last year.
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