NEW YORK – Spanish scientist turned ice cream maker Manuel Linares has done the unimaginable: he’s created a color-changing ice cream.

TechTimes.com writes that Xamaleón, which means chameleon, has a tutti-frutti flavor and is made with strawberries, almonds, cocoa, banana, vanilla, pistachio, caramel and a secret ingredient that makes it possible for the ice cream to change color. Linares also uses a “love elixir,” as he calls it, that is sprayed on the ice cream before it is served, boosting chemical reactions brought about by changes in temperature to intensify the color-changing properties of the ice cream.

"As a physicist I know that there are various possibilities that might work and I was delighted when I managed to crack it and create an ice cream that changes color," he told the UK Mirror.

Linares hopes to expand his Xamaleón creation beyond his ice cream parlor in Calella de Mar, Spain, even though he won’t share the full secret to color-changing ice cream just yet. “I am not giving out too much detail because the patents are still going through,” he said. Xamaleón starts out a cool periwinkle blue, changes to bright purple and then pink as it melts and comes into contact with saliva.

After Xamaleón, Linares hopes to make ice cream that changes color from white to pink and one that glows when exposed to ultraviolet light.