UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE VALENCIA  

Dessert Ice cream & sorbet

Karobia

High fiber, carob and orange vegan ice cream.

Karobia is a product that seeks to promote the use of agricultural production from the Valencian Community. Firstly, we aim to add value to a product such as carob, usually undervalued, and used in the food industry mainly as a by-product. Also, we will add value to the orange, intimately associated with the Community. Our aim is to create a KM Zero product that represents perfectly the roots and essence of the Mediterranean coastline. For us, the best way for these flavors to come together is by combining them following the centuries-old ice cream tradition, mainly from Alicante, and then to turn these flavors into a refreshing ice cream that is ideal for the climate that our region is characterized by. In order to converge with current trends and contribute to the opening of the ice cream sector to the vegan and/or lactose intolerant market, our product is made with a vegetable drink. Moreover, Karobia is a very attractive ice cream from the nutritional point of view, since it uses ingredients that favor gastrointestinal transit, such as inulin, a prebiotic that modulates the activity of the microbiota, and carob, which contains substances with a regulatory function.