Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream of New York City, introduced the black ice-cream to the masses this summer.
This not so delightful looking yet a yummy offering is as dark a black as possible. You got to look at it to believe it. The real magic, though, lies in its taste. It’s a rich, sweet coconut flavor that simply melts in your mouth.
You are totally fluffed if you thought that color came from any artificial food color or any other ingredient like sesame seeds. Now, what comes next will blow your mind.
According to the owner Nick Morgenstern, it’s coconut ash that creates that deep, rich color of this super ice-cream.
So, that’s the secret element that forms Morgenstern’s famous black-ice-cream, yes.
Wondering what’s coconut ash? It’s nothing but activated carbon or burnt/treated charcoal that’s an active ingredient used in most of the modern day items like, pizza, juices, toothpaste and other such stuff. There also exists the charcoal lemonade juice in the market now.
With charred and processed coconut shells this drink claims to improve digestion and gives you a healthy glowing skin. Considering that activated charcoal has been used as supplements and for digestion related issues for hundreds of years, Dr. Kent Olson (medical director of the San Francisco Poison Control System and clinical professor of medicine and pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco) says that it will probably not be harmful for you.
So, as Morgenstern thought of using it, he says “I had been monkeying around with coconut ash for a while and then I had this fancy chocolate bar that used coconut ash”. He added that he had to order the coconut-ash from an online health food store, as its food-grade variety is not available easily.
