What is space food?

 Food product specially created and processed for consumption by astronauts in

outer space
 Requirements:
1. physiologically appropriate
 nutritious
 easily digestible
 palatable
2. Being easy and safe to store, prepare and consume in low gravity
environment
3.
Advantages:

 Tasty
 Provide the 2400 calories of energy required by an astronauts
 Specially suitable for outdoor activity
 Food package is designed to be flexible, easier to use as well as maximize space
when stowing or disposing food containers

Examples:

An employee shows a moon cake for Chinese astronauts during their space mission during a
space food show in a collectibles shop in Beijing October 7, 2008. [CFP]  
Two young women show interest in a small plate
of reconstituted dried fruit for Chinese astronauts during a
space food show in a collectibles shop in Beijing, October
7, 2008. [CFP]

An employee shows a bag of beef, a kind of the space

food for Chinese astronauts during their space
mission, in a collectiles shop in Beijing October 7,
 2008. [CFP]

Rehydratable Shōyu flavoured Japaneseramen from JAXA.