Viral: Chinese Ice Cream that doesn’t melt even with a blowtorch

Eating Ice cream in summer is a real challenge as it melts at lightning speed. However, there is a Chinese ice cream that doesn’t melt even with a blowtorch. This ice cream is from a popular Chinese ice cream brand Zhong Xue Gao that’s also known as ‘Hermès of ice cream’ and is priced at $10. Recently, a video of this ice cream has gone viral on social media, where the ice cream did not even melt at a temperature of 31 degrees. (Images courtesy: SCMP)

Apparently, the viral video was uploaded on the popular social media platform Weibo and has more than 500 million views. In the video, one can see a customer putting their ‘Baysalt Coconut-flavoured ice cream’ under test when the person tried to melt the ice cream using a lighter. Several people have commented on this video and questioned the ingredients of this ice cream. (Images courtesy: Weibo)

This viral video has sparked a controversy on Chinese social media and people are bashing the company over this. While some of them are questioning the ingredients used in making this ice cream, others are writing about how expensive it is. One of them wrote, “Can you make leather shoes (from this)?” While another person wrote that “Zhong Xue Gao ice cream: a new type of high temperature resistant and fire-resistant building material.” (images courtesy: YouTube)

Seeing the uproar, the ice cream company responded on the same social media platform Weibo with an official statement which read that all their products are in line with quality standards set by China’s national authority. Their statement read, “The main components of the baysalt coconut-flavoured ice cream are milk, single cream, coconut pulp, condensed milk and milk powder. Forty per cent of this ice cream is solid materials.” The company also wrote in their official statement that “We believe that it is not scientific to judge the quality of ice cream by baking, drying or heating ice cream.” (Image courtesy: YouTube)