You will be surprised to know what astronauts eat every day

The meals of cosmonauts turned out to be quite decent and fuller than we thought.

Many people believe that space travel is to eat bland meals, including multivitamins, food packed .

If you think so, the picture below, about astronauts on the ISS International Space Station will surprise you.

Astronaut Windell Oskay (USA).

Astronauts rely heavily on food prepared and preserved at NASA's Food Science Laboratory on the ground. In particular , hard candy and peanuts like M&M are very popular.

The reason is that these foods are . delicious, easy to chew, not easy to crumble and fly around. Moreover, a transportation trip to the space station costs US $ 2,500 (about 55 million VND) for 450gr, so the foods that need to be selected are as light as possible.

On ISS, astronauts still eat fresh vegetables.

There is no refrigerator on the space station, so fresh foods cannot be preserved. But in fact, astronauts still eat fresh vegetables like tomatoes, oranges, bananas . thanks to NASA's "resupply" trips.

The astronauts eat corn cakes for breakfast instead of bread.

The astronauts eat corn cakes for breakfast instead of bread, because this is a less expensive cake. NASA sterilized this cake before vacuum packaging and then sent it to ISS. Each cake can be preserved for 18 months.

Milk-mixing cereals are also favored by astronauts.

But corn cakes are not the only food to eat breakfast. Astronauts can also eat cereal mixed with milk.

The "re-hydration" machine on the universe.

To drink them, all must go through a temporary translation of "re-hydration".

Milk and all other drinks - lemon powder, tea powder, milk powder . before being sent to space were dehydrated. To drink them, all must go through a temporary translation of "re-hydration" .

Fresh meat cannot be eaten in the universe, but beef is dry.

So what about meat? Eating fresh meat is definitely impossible in the universe. Instead, scientists have dried beef. This is the food that scientists like the most, because they are relatively light, can be preserved for a long time, and at the same time they are quite abundant source of protein. And most importantly they are . delicious.

Butter cookies are popular snacks from the 1970s.

And every time you open the box of beans, be very careful .

Butter and peanut biscuits are very popular snacks since the 1970s. These are fast-food supplements of protein, fat and above all, very "standard" energy .

How do astronauts chew swallow in a zero gravity environment?

This is a question that is quite disturbing. If everything in the universe floats, how do astronauts chew and swallow?

The answer is actually quite simple: our swallowing force is very strong. Food in the mouth will be pushed down by the muscles in the esophagus, down into the intestine without any problems.

If you don't believe it, you can try drinking water in a pose . head-on. Make sure 100% you can still swallow.