Chilled out

摘要

Get ready to chill out with the world's coolest drinks. The secret? A natural food additive with 35 times the cooling power of menthol—but no minty flavour whatsoever. It could bring a supercool fresh tang to a wide range of products, including beer, bottled water, citrus drinks, chocolate and confectionery, says Thomas Hofmann, whose team at the German Research Centre for Food Chemistry in Garching, Munich, discovered the new substance. And because it "cools" skin 250 times as intensely as mint, they say it could add fresh zest to cosmetics such as anti-perspirants.