Astronauts and Cosmonauts- Food for Space Flight Retrieved 11/10/2008

SINE

What I know about Russian space food is mostly freeze dried, prepared in hot water. The menu includes potatoes. Cargo spacecraft routinely deliver five types of bread, fresh vegetables, honey. Food in space loses flavor, so cosmonauts ask for like onions, garlic.

Mir spacecraft's menu 6 day rotation provides each person 3,100 calories each day. There's a vitamin supplement each 15 days also. 70 choices of meat, fish, poultry, potatoes, peas, cabbage, cheese, porridge. Nuts, yogurt …. Drink milk (powdered), coffee, tea, various fruit juice.

Four meals each day. For example:

Breakfast: Pork with sweet pepper, cheese, honey cake, prunes, coffee.

Lunch: Jellied beef tongue, praline candies, cherry juice.

Dinner: Ham, borscht with smoked foods, tallin beef, potatoes, cookies and cheese, applejuice.

Supper: Cottage cheese with nuts, meats, wheat bread, plum and cherry dessert, tea.

CORONADO

Sine, you are a wealth of information; there’s no doubt about it. Are you taking notes, Aura ?

SINE

Well if this show in flying saucer, make it real?

CORONADO

Right. . .