Eat yer greens

Parents have fought a long and fruitless battle with successive generations of kids trying to get them to eat more vegetables. Why even that lisping culinary caped crusader " Jamie SuperChef " did his best on national television to change kids dietary habits in " School Dinners ", yet to be flighted here in South Africa - unfortunately latest research shows that his campaign, whilst making for great TV and book sales, hasn't made a blind bit of difference to what kids really want to eat. So it seems that it's up to the canny Scots to try to solve the problem.
Michael and Yolanda Luca of Edinburgh may have a novel solution. They make premium ice creams and their latest flavour, aimed at the kiddie market is, pea flavoured ice cream, disguising vitamin-packed green vegetables in ice cream. Take pureed, mushy peas, add them to vanilla ice cream base and you end up with a garish, green ice cream which seems to appeal to the kiddie market looking for new flavours, colours and experiences. Sounds like a great idea but somehow I get the feeling that the cooking and freezing process will kill off most of the nutrients and vitamins and you'll just end up with this bright green ball of carbohydrate - still, even if it does nothing for the dietary well being of the kids, it will certainly salve the conscience of their parents.
I don't think there is such a thing as healthy ice cream - ice cream is meant be decadent, delicious, dripping in saturated fats and cholesterols and so maybe if you're looking for handheld goodness, Brazil rather than Scotland, should be your focus. Mil Frutas is a shop that sells exotic mixes of fruits and spices, just for the taste not the perceived health rewards. Apricot and thyme, watermelon and ginger, pineapple and cayenne, green grape and basil, are all flavours which they have championed, in fact the absolute hit this season was the creamy 'capuchinha flower ice cream' - slightly spicy, sweetened with honey and sprinkled with poppy seed. Now that's what I call ice cream, you can keep "yer mushy peas."