Over 2 Million dollars spent on cancer project that might help cancer patients cope with their disease. The research study results was revealed last week at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

With the assistance of dairy giant Fonterra, the researchers developed whats called “medicinal ice cream” which has shown encouraging signs in combating the side-effects of chemotherapy in cancer sufferers. The Daily Telegraph reported today.

ReCharge, the name of the ice cream, shown to relieve diarrhoea, anaemia and lack of appetite in people undergoing chemotherapy. Participants ate 100 100 gram of strawberry-flavored ice cream each day. “The two bio-active milk components developed for ReCharge have the unique potential to assist the body in coping with the side effects of chemotherapy,” Fonterra’s chief technology office Jeremy Hill said in a statement.

There was not much information regarding the study, but the bottom line is that this kind of ice cream “ReCharge” helps cancer patients combat the side effects of chemotherapy treatments.