Top 8 Foods BANNED in Space

Astronauts can't eat just anything in space, there are many foods which are simply not allowed.

8. Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Dehydrated, vacuum sealed fruit and vegetables are available in space but the fresh, delicious form is not. When the shuttle is placed on the launch pad it is loaded up over weeks with supplies with everything strategically placed with storage and weight distribution in mind. For this reason fresh fruit and vegetables wouldn’t make it into space in any edible form. Ironically a few vegetables have been grown and consumed in space like lettuce. Also barely has grown in space then brought back to earth to be made into beer which cost $100 for a 6-pack.

7. Carbonated Drinks
Pop or soda is banned in outer space as it will cause vomiting. The fact there is no gravity means the carbonation stays within the drink, leaving all that gas or bubbles in place and not fizzing at the top of the soft drink. As astronauts found out in the 1980s and 1990s, soft drinks that have gone flat and are warm not exactly the best thing to consume in space.

6. Anything from the Freezer
Ice cream, popsicles anything frozen is banned or more accurately not available as there is no freezer on the space shuttles. Now there is a freezer on the International Space Station that keeps temperatures of -80 degrees celsius but it’s strictly for scientific samples and not food.
With all this said astronauts do enjoy ice cream in space but they come in the form of freeze dried ice cream but somehow I don’t think that tastes quite the same…

5. Seasonings
Herbs, spices, salt, pepper anything else dry that crumbles or has many tiny parts doesn’t make it’s way to space. This means, no shakers, dried herbs, powdered spices, nothing. Instead astronauts use liquid paste seasonings or a liquid infused with salt and pepper to spice up food.

4. Wine
This popular alcoholic beverage was once on track to make it to space. After a rigorous process of finding a wine that would remain stable even after being repackaged and would endure the flight to space mostly unchanged, Paul Masson California Rare Cream Sherry was chosen. Unfortunately after doing some preliminary tests on the vomit comet, NASA’s low gravity test plane, the sherry was removed off the list of consumables going to space. People found the smell of the sherry, once opened from its vacuum seal bag, to remind them of the smell of vomit. With the weightless sensation and a lingering scent of vomit still present in the vomit comet many of the crew were grasping for barf bags. Wine was ruled out as not being necessary to have in space in contrast the Russians have been bringing cognac up there for years.

3. Reindeer Jerky
Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang was banned from bringing reindeer jerky aboard a shuttle mission as it would not be viewed positively by the public in America consider the missions was so soon before Christmas. NASA was worried talk show hosts would make a mockery of the situation, constantly making fun of how astronauts are eating rudolph in space. To avoid a PR nightmare they banned the jerky but allowed Christer to bring moose jerky instead.

2. Fish
While fish is not exclusively banned in space, it has become banned by specific commanders who can’t handle the smell. A space shuttle or the International Space Station is lacking space. Living in such tight quarters with a few other people can be difficult in itself but imagine the smell of rehydrated or microwaved fish wreaking throughout with nowhere to go. A dish consisting of fish with tomato sauce was used in space with the tomato sauce being used to mask the smell but apparently it doesn’t work well enough and commanders have banned the sea creatures entirely on their missions.

1. Bread
Bread or anything crumbly like cookies and crackers are strictly prohibited in space. They create a lot of crumbs which get everywhere. Crumbs end up stuck in instruments, crevices, astronauts eyes basically everywhere. This was already determined and banned from space but put to the test when astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich on rye from his favorite deli on board the gemini III space capsule in 1965. Once in space, as a joke, he handed the sandwich over to the mission commander Gus Grissom who took one bite and instantly regretted it. The alternative is bringing tortillas into space which do much better, and with the help from Taco Bell NASA now uses their specially preserved tortillas or at least their technology to preserve tortillas up to a year.

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