As God 7 returns today, the astronauts will end nearly three days of space travel. The space journey is novel to most of us. Let's take a look at what God 7 astronauts eat in space. How the Shenzhou 7 astronauts' space recipes differ from those of God VI.
Shenzhou 6 Astronaut Space Recipes
The recipe includes a total of more than 50 kinds of foods. The astronauts eat 3 times a day in space and enjoy 5 to 6 foods per meal. These foods take into account both the nutritional balance and the different tastes of the astronauts. The Shenzhou-6 spacecraft brought enough food for two astronauts to fly for more than 40 kilograms.
These foods include staple foods and non-staple foods. The main staple food is rice, with 140 grams each. It is packed in a vacuum bag and needs to be heated with a heater when it is eaten. The non-staple foods include meat, vegetables and canned meat. The meats include dried tangerine beef, beef balls, squid balls, etc. The vegetables are all kinds of rehydration vegetables, including savory mushroom heart, vegetarian assorted, and canned meat. Canned foods include canned beef and canned pork. Chen Bin said that through scientific matching of these foods, astronauts can ensure that staple foods in space are not heavy for 2 days and non-staple foods for 4 days.
The freeze-dried fruit eaten by astronauts in space is made from fresh fruits such as strawberries, apples, bananas, peaches, and melons. The taste, color, and taste are also quite good. At the same time, astronauts can also drink coffee, tea, juice and creamy soup. These are rehydration drinks.
The astronauts can heat foods that need to be heated through the heater while eating, and rehydrated vegetables only need to add certain water. Once the leaves are wet, they will be “reduced†into a cooked dish on the table, with a color, aroma, and taste. Astronauts make a meal in space and it takes about 30 minutes. In order to prevent food debris from scattering, the astronauts use knife and fork instead of chopsticks.
"There are some differences in the food consumed by the astronauts in the first 3 days and the next few days."
Chen Bin said, “The amount of crude fiber in foods in the next few days has been significantly reduced. This is to reduce the number of astronauts’ defecation, because after the separation of the return capsule and the orbital capsule, there is no astronaut’s defecation facility in the capsule.†Xinhuanet
Shenzhou 7 astronaut's space recipe
The Chinese astronaut's “master chef†disclosed that the food on the Shenzhou VII spacecraft was more abundant and more personalized, and the astronauts could eat real-world cooking for the first time in space.
Chen Bin, director of the Astronaut Center’s Space Food Nutrition Metabolism Research Center, said that in terms of the selection of ingredients, beans and milk that are more prone to gas production are not suitable. At the same time, due to the heavy physical exertion of the Shenqi task, foods emphasize high energy. Chen Bin said that compared with the three meals a day in the previous two flights, the food with the Shenzhou spacecraft has the following characteristics:
Variety is more abundant. Main foods, non-staple foods, soups, beverages, spices, ready-to-eat products... On the Shenzhou spacecraft, astronauts have 7 categories and nearly 80 kinds of foods available. In addition to the same staple foods and non-staple foods as in the past, this time, an additional non-staple food packaged in canned soft cans was added, which is equivalent to cooking in Chinese food. The "Kung Pao Chicken" made with the new method is closer to the color and taste on the ground. In addition, astronauts can also eat shelled shrimp, freeze-dried fruit, and dozens of drinks.
With more personalized. Condiment packs containing various ingredients are one of the highlights of Shenqi Food. In this way, Jing Haipeng from Shanxi Province will not suffer because he cannot eat vinegar.
Packaging is more reliable. Shenqi Food has been subjected to vibration shock and unloading and recompression experiments, and its packaging strength is even greater.
Hot food is more delicious. After God’s first use of the food heater, the astronauts ate hot meals. However, the rice that was made was a bit raw. Shenqi food heating will use the main power supply in the cabin and no longer will appear as a "cooked meal."
According to Chen Bin, the Shenzhou spacecraft is equipped with 5 days of food, and each person's daily food is about 1.2 kilograms. Because of the stress of work, three astronauts need to change their diets, and heating a meal for one person takes about half an hour.
Foreign trials have shown that people's feelings of acidity, saltiness, etc. will generally be more dull after they go to heaven. No wonder Nie Haisheng said that after going up, he particularly likes spicy food and garlic. After Fei Junlong's return from the flight of the Sixth God, he listed a few things that he felt were good in the sky: shrimp, braised beef, bran, and pork.