Scientists have set about addressing that limitation, with reusable water-based "jelly ice cubes" that hold their shape at all temperatures. Developed by a team at the University of California ...

The benefits of plastic-free, “jelly ice cubes” are that they do not melt, are compostable and antimicrobial, and can help prevent cross-contamination. It can be easy for foodservice operators ...

Now, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have developed “cooling cubes” that definitely solve at least one of those problems: “jelly” ice cubes that don’t use plastic ...

Cooling cube designed to prevent cross-contamination New jelly ice cube is not plastic and won’t melt Cubes are reusable, flexible and compostable Researchers at the University of California, Davis, ...

At University of California, Davis's Robert Mondavi Institute of Wine and Food Sciences, a team of researchers is re-imagining the ice cube. "Jelly ice" stays just as cold for just as long as ...

Jiahan Zou, a UC Davis PhD graduate student, holds one of the jelly ice cubes. Credit: Alysha Beck/UC Davis Imagine a trip to the grocery or fish market, and seeing cuts of fresh fish laid out on beds ...