Ultimate cruising salad? Good enough for astronauts apparently.

[Startracker]

A scientific salad for astronauts in deep space

The ingredients were chosen for their nutritional value, as well as how easy they’ll be to grow with the limited room and resources available on a spacecraft.

astronomy.com

An international team of scientists have developed a “space salad” that can keep astronauts well-nourished on future missions into deep space.

The salad consists of seven ingredients — soybeans, poppy seeds, barley, kale, peanuts, sunflower seeds, and sweet potatoes, all in carefully measured amounts — that can be grown in small enclosures on a spacecraft and fulfill the nutritional needs of astronauts on long-duration trips.

Researchers from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. chose the ingredients based on their nutritional value, growth rate, water and space requirements, and the amount of inedible waste produced.

 

[Dogscout]

Just grill the dam steak

 

[toddster]

See, “International Scientists” all resent blockhead jock button-pushers astronauts because every one of those nerds think that they could do a better job. (If only the selection criteria had more to do with how many pulp magazines you subscribed to as a kid. Or clever - and stoichiometrically correct - puns on the deep rows of the periodic table. Etc.)
Clearly, this little ruse is to get all the current crop of launchable ballast to fail their next drug test. Thus opening up a few more spots for those who hold a Ph.D. but alas, had a few too many zits and couldn’t ever quite climb that damned rope in junior high.

 

[ExOmo]

 

[toddster]

Couple of days late, but pretty close:

 

[SloopJonB]

Astronauts ate out of squeeze tubes for years so they aren't really the arbiters of "good enough"

 

[toddster]

Those guys are pretty much all dead. Except, somehow, for Buzz.
The current crop of RoboKids will eat any fucking thing you program them to, if it keeps them on the ladder.







(Which could be quite amusing…)

 

[Mid]

Just grill the dam steak

yep , rather eat the cattle than the cattle food .

 

[low bum]

And who else grew up drinking Tang? Good enough for John Glenn, good enough for growing kids.

 

[kinardly]

yep , rather eat the cattle than the cattle food .

Sort of letting the steer do the hard part for you?

 

[Drunkonwatch]

In Alaska we have a secret sailing salad.

 

[Diarmuid]

You'll get yeast sludge in algae sauce -- and like it.

(Sweet potatoes take 120 days to grow -- presumably this is a very long mission. Also, if a round trip the crew could eat the specialists on the ride home. Their work is done.)

 

[Zonker]

Fun fact. In zero gee you need extra fiber due to the lack of gravity. Same with long term patients on bed rest.

That salad sounds like it was designed that way

 

[Gissie]

the amount of inedible waste produced.

I guess this is the kale before it is eaten?

 

[Startracker]

I guess this is the kale before it is eaten?

Does kale really change much on either end?

 

[Gissie]

Does kale really change much on either end?

No idea. Reports are that it is best fried like potatoes chips. Then you throw them out and lick the pan.

 

[Whinging Pom]

Pick kale from your garden, wash to remove grit, and livestock. Stir fry with a bit of garlic and a dash of soy sauce.

 

[Diarmuid]

I like it (occasionally!) blanched to wilting, then julienned with a little salt & vinegar (malt or rice wine). It's a brassica: mustn't overcook it or it tastes like innertube. Prefer spinach to kale, tho. Prefer broccoli to either. I eat a shocking volume of broccoli.🥦

 

[Zonker]

In zero gee you need extra fiber due to the lack of gravity.

I made that up just to be honest.

 

[Bull City]

Fun fact. In zero gee you need extra fiber due to the lack of gravity. Same with long term patients on bed rest.

That salad sounds like it was designed that way

Still a good point. Couldn't you have someone (or some thing) swing you around and around by your arms and get everything at the right end? I do it with ketchup bottles all the time. (But not in public.)