Cool innovation: Singapore firm and academics create probiotic ice cubes
Singapore ice supplier Uni-Tat Ice & Marketing has launched a probiotic ice cube product in several supermarkets across the island-state.
Made from filtered water, each ice cube weighing 26g contains
Bifidobacterium lactis at a CFU count of 2.8bn.
The innovation is a result of its collaboration with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) via a project partially funded by government agency Enterprise Singapore.
Speaking to
NutraIngredients-Asia, Andy Goh, general manager at Uni-Tat Ice & Marketing said the initial idea was to create functional foods – something that is entirely new for the company since it has previously specialised purely in ice products.