Will you try this glow-in-the-dark ice cream?

Sample this, ice-cream lovers!

You think you’ve tasted all the creamy delights possible – from rum-infused frozen delights to mint yoghurt flavours, but there’s one out there that requires your attention.

The world’s first glow in the dark Cornetto has been created by Bompas & Parr (Anthony Upton/Bompas & Parr)

Food scientists have developed an ice-cream that glows in the dark – which comes especially handy when you’re trying to eat your snack in partial darkness.

These luminous sweet treats have been created by food designers Bompas and Parr for Wall’s Ice Cream and was dished out at Vue Cinema in Leicester Square at the screening of Simon Pegg’s film The World’s End, much to the surprise of cinema-goers who found their snacks glowed a fluorescent yellow as soon as the lights were switched off.

Customers were surprised when their Cornettos lit up once the lights went out (Anthony Upton/Bompas & Parr)

“We’ve always been interested in the lurid allure of glow in the dark food,” says co-founder Sam Bompas of Bompas and Parr.

“Years ago we made glowing jellies as an art installation for SFMOMA. This year it was time to take the concept mainstream with glow-in-the-dark Cornettos.”

The ice-cream was trialled at Vue Cinema in Leicester Square, London (Anthony Upton/Bompas & Parr)

What looks like a regular Cornetto starts gleaming neon yellow once the lights go off and UV lighting is turned on.

“To make them glow we use riboflavin or vitamin B2. This fluoresces beautifully under certain wavelengths of light,” explains Bompas.

Riboflavin is the key ingredient in these ice creams that makes them glow (Anthony Upton/Bompas & Parr)

Riboflavin has a slight bitter taste, but that is masked by the taste of sugar and fat in the frozen treat.

These Cornettos emit a neon glow (Anthony Upton/Bompas & Parr)

“There is a little flavour to route but the chill of the ice-cream in combo with the sugar, fat and salt means that you hardly register it on the palate,” Bompass says.

“And the vitamins mean that the ice-cream has dietary benefits all of its own,” he adds.

These frozen treats are handy sweet delights to have in the dark (Anthony Upton/Bompas And Parr)

While mobile phones are not allowed at cinemas, Bompas and Parr believe that these glowing ice-creams won’t be a cause for distraction.

“We are currently hunting for a plucky cinema to put them on the menu permanently”, says Bompas.

They light up under certain UV lights (Ann Charlot Ommedal/Bompas & Parr)

If successful, sticky fingers and unwanted spillages could become a thing of the past.