It's called "Recharge", and it's a medicinal form of ice cream designed to alleviate the side effects of chemotherapy.

Recharge is the result of a collaboration between the University of Auckland and Fonterra, New Zealand's largest dairy producer. The ice cream has been developed to help cancer patients like Reg who's undergoing cancer treatment in Dunedin, New Zealand.

[Reg, Cancer Patient]:
"Fatigue, nausea, tingling sensation in tongues and feet and that but one of the big ones is the effect on the stomach of cramping and bloating and diarrhea and not very pleasant stuff at all.”

The new strawberry ice cream has already been successfully tested on mice, and the researchers are confident humans will respond in a similarly positive way.

[Jeremy Hill, Chief Technology Officer at Fonterra]:
“Because it's an easily palatable food, it's one which we could put the enriched components in very high concentration and deliver it to people who actually find it difficult to consume food during the chemotherapy treatment.

The ice cream is being used as a delivery system for two active ingredients in dairy products that when combined, relieve diarrhea, anemia and lack of appetite.