NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Science has finally led us to one of the greatest innovations of humankind: ice cream that doesn\u2019t melt quickly on a hot day. The secret, according to a new study? Banana plant waste.<\/p>\n

Not only are researchers saying their new concoction will last longer, but it\u2019s creamier and potentially even healthier than your typical frozen treat.<\/p>\n

Keeping ice cream from melting has been a mystery that has eluded research teams from around the world for years. Just last year, Japanese scientists developed a melt-resistant ice cream using polyphenol compounds from strawberries, but never before has a compound been found to improve the creaminess and texture of low-fat ice cream as well.<\/p>\n

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By Ben Renner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS \u2014 Science has finally led us to one of the greatest innovations of humankind: ice cream that doesn\u2019t melt quickly on a hot day. The secret, according to a new study? Banana plant waste. Not only are researchers saying their new concoction will last longer, but it\u2019s creamier and potentially even healthier than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,37,25],"tags":[48,40],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/90B30FF5-8ADE-4A37-B948-63A79F95A836.jpeg?fit=475%2C316","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82DZ0-jX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmyschmidt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}