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London, Oct 29 (ANI): New Zealand scientists are developing an ice cream that can combat negative side effects of chemotherapy.
Along with dairy giant Fonterra, researchers at the University of Auckland are working on a "medical dessert" which has shown encouraging signs in combating the side-effects of chemotherapy in cancer sufferers, reports The Telegraph.
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The ice cream, called ReCharge, is using active ingredients from dairy products to relieve diarrhoea, anaemia and lack of appetite in people undergoing chemotherapy.n trials, volunteers have been eating a 100-gram tub of the strawberry-flavoured ice cream each day.
"The two bio-active milk components developed for ReCharge have the unique potential to assist the body in coping with the side effects of chemotherapy," Fonterra's chief technology office Jeremy Hill said in a statement.
LactoPharma, a partnership between Fonterra and the university, screened dairy components for health effects. (ANI)
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