A recent Facebook post reported that a company in the Netherlands has created an ice cream “snowflake” with a combination drug, Paracetamol (500 mg), which relieves pain. Does a cup of that ice cream really cure a headache? More importantly, is eating ice cream safe, especially with the post from 2018, once more spreading on several web pages, and sharing it 66,000 times on the Internet.
The website of Logicale, an information technology services company, states that the first announcement of a bakery making ice cream for headaches was made in the Netherlands in 2016, but the product did not have a license to sell it.
The ice cream was made with paracetamol at a bakery in the village of North Brabant in Odenbosch in 2016, according to the Dutch publication BnDystem, and the bakery’s owner, Jan Nagelkirk, offered the new ice cream in the bakery window as a headache remedy.
While the Food and Safety Authority in the Netherlands said it would not be safe to sell it to customers, a BN Dystrum spokesperson said: “If there is a lot of paracetamol in the ice cream, a license is required to give such a drug.”