Some space food is—dare we say it—good. “Astronaut food is great,” former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino told Mental Floss in ...

Lab-grown food will be essential if Nasa's objective of making humanity a multi-planetary species were to be realised, claims ...

NASA astronauts return after a nine-month stay on the International Space Station, originally planned for nine days. The crew faced challenges with packaged and freeze-dried food for the extended ...

Top Scottish confectioner Golden Casket have capitalised on the latest viral online trend and will be giving one of their ...

space food has come a long way. In the 1960s, astronauts like John Glenn were chowing down on applesauce or pureed beef that came in a squeezable tube. Later, freeze-dried cubes and ...

Hi-Chews have become an iconic candy in the US (despite the brand’s Japanese roots) but Hi-Crunch, a freeze-dried version of the iconic candy don’t really capture the flavor or essence of the original ...

That is why astronauts usually resort to freeze-dried or stored fruits rather than fresh fruits. Soft cheeses are yet another prohibited food because of how easily they go bad. Left unrefrigerated ...

But astronaut ice cream came with the ... administers is in some ways a barometer of failed foods. That is, leftovers—freeze-dried packets returned to Earth, unopened and summarily rejected.