How does seaweed help make ice cream smooth?
Ocean's Ice Cream Secret
How does seaweed help make ice cream smooth?
You're eating ice cream on a hot day, and it's perfectly smooth and creamy — no icy chunks, no weird graininess. You probably think it's all about the milk and sugar. But there's a secret ingredient hiding in there, and it came from the ocean. Seaweed. Yes, really.
Not the whole seaweed, of course. Ice cream makers don't chop up kelp and stir it in. They extract a special substance called carrageenan from red seaweed. It's a long, tangled molecule — imagine a microscopic string of beads, each bead a sugar unit, all linked together in a chain.
