ICE CREAM FROM SEAWEED

Franklin Times, Volume XXX, Issue 90, 15 August 1941, Page 6

ICE CREAM FROM SEAWEED

AND MACAROONS FROM FRUIT STONES Wall hoards from Ceylon coconuts, macaroons from New Zealand apricol, peach and cherry stones, building blocks from the coral mud of British Honduras and canned chicken from India are among the investigations reviewed in its new report by Britain’s Imperial Institute. The Institute has carried uut experiments on Hie production from Malayan seaweed of agar-agar, a substance used for such diverse purposes as cheap American ice-cream, Chinese bird’s-uest soup, electro-plating, and a laxative. Malayan tonka beans, which impart to tobacco the scent of newmown bay, have been examined, as have Australian substitutes for Swedish and Spanish welding rod coating materials.

There are reports on ruby-mica from India, South African chicory seed and New Zealand pigs' hair: sliceoskins from Tanganyika and bana stems from Palestine: Antiguan cotton seed, Nyasaland lung oil and Nigerian ginger: soap from Burma, sansevieria fibre from East Africa,' raisins from Cyprus. cashew nuts from Sierra Leone and medicinal plants from Southern Rhodesia. Under war conditions, much of the Institute's work is secret, but it may he stated that the Plant and Animals

Department made reports on 212 samples and dealt with 1,666 oilier inquiries from thirty-three Empire countries, while the Mineral Resources Department examined 1,884 samples and dealt with 1.713 inquiries.