Such as rice porridge, coconut bread, fried rice, fried noodles and other staple foods, as well as various dishes, such as fish-flavored shredded pork and kung pao chicken, as well as eight-treasure rice, curry rice, assorted fried rice, freeze-dried ice cream, abalone, salted shrimp, shrimps, braised beef, roasted bran, barbecued pork and so on.
Side dishes will also give special consideration to the taste of astronauts' hometown, and even be customized privately. For example, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Guangdong cuisine, Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine, Huaiyang cuisine, northwest wind, northeast stew and Yunnan-Guizhou cuisine. This diversified food safety enables astronauts to live and work in space for three months, with balanced nutrition and good health.
Astronauts' diet is difficult to "live"
Space food has the characteristics of light weight, small size and good nutrition. On the surface, these characteristics make space food competitive. In other words, space food developed for space activities also has the problem of acclimatization, and it may not be suitable for ordinary people on the ground.
In addition to the possible taste problems, the scientific research and production requirements of space food are much stricter than those of ground food. Space food is actually a food combination, which must provide the most reasonable and suitable nutritional structure for space life. In addition, in order to ensure the health of astronauts, the quality requirements for food are also quite high.
This situation increases the difficulty of promoting space food production. The development of space food is even facing the dilemma of being close to no industry. An industry insider of Shanghai Aerospace 805 said that aerospace food has high technology content and narrow application range, so it is difficult to meet the requirements of industrialization.