{"id":261310,"date":"2024-09-04T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T09:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/probarias-un-helado-de-vainilla-hecho-con-plastico\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T09:34:49","slug":"whould-you-try-vanilla-ice-cream-made-with-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapasmagazine.es\/en\/whould-you-try-vanilla-ice-cream-made-with-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you try vanilla ice cream made with plastic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Click here<\/a> to read the Spanish version.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if it were an ice cream made for Barbie’s plastic world, an artist wanted to explore sustainable innovation in gastronomy by joining a collective of scientists to ‘hack’ the food system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a vanilla ice cream<\/strong> made with the same materials found in plastic bottles. A sweet iteration that several Scottish scientists at the University of Edinburgh carried out using bacteria and special enzymes to break down a chemical compound in the plastic and turn it into vanilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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