What a delicious surprise! Now there’s an ice cream that changes colour with each lick (Video)

For most people, ice cream is all about flavour. But for Spanish physicist Manuel Linares, it’s the colour that counts.

Linares has created an ice cream that changes colour as it’s eaten. The fruity confection, called Xamaleón — as in, chameleon — starts out as a periwinkle blue and gradually morphs into hues of purple and pink.

So far, Linares has been tight-lipped about the specific ingredients responsible for the color change, but he has opened up a bit about how the reaction works.

Apparently, it’s all about temperature — heat from saliva and slight changes in the surrounding air.

Though the change may seem unusual, you’ve probably observed something similar with other edibles — without realizing it.

“Any food will change colour if it changes temperature, you encapsulate it or it oxidizes,” Linares told Spanish-language gastronomy website Cocinatis.

In a video posted on Linares’ IceXperience Facebook page, a sample cone can be seen changing from purple to pink — similar to the way chameleons change colours to adapt to their surroundings.

The glow-in-the-dark treat is priced at a whopping $225 (N36,321) a scoop. What a delicious surprise!