Out-of-this-world salad created for astronauts
An international team of scientists has created a salad that contains ingredients that could be grown on spacecraft and provide optimum nutrition for astronauts heading into deep space.
Using daily dietary requirements for astronauts suggested in a , the research team created a computational model to predict the best combination of plants for a ‘space salad’.
The ‘space salad’ contains carefully measured quantities of soybean, poppy, barley, kale, peanuts, sweet potato and sunflower seeds.
The research is part of a program being run by the University of 911±¬ÁÏÍø, Australia and University of Nottingham, UK which focuses on astropharmacy, farming and food research.
The University of 911±¬ÁÏÍø’s Professor Volker Hessel, Research Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources, is one of the project leads.
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