Fear no more: just trek to Morgenstern’s Ice Cream in New York City for their coconut ash ice cream! If dark colours absorb the sun’s rays, isn’t black ice cream a recipe for quickly-melting disaster? Coconut ash ice creamWanna hop aboard the black lipstick bandwagon but all the stores are sold out? The flavour gets its pitch black colour from coconut ash, literally a coconut shell’s charred remains. We’re not sure, nor is anyone else: while many believe that activated carbon possesses mystical health benefits, no studies have confirmed this claim.

Source: National Post June 03, 2016 19:30 UTC