Development of a multipurpose fruit and vegetable processor for a manned mission to Mars

Voit, D.C.; Santos, Miguel R.; Singh, Rajesh

doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2005.06.035

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“…Food processing equipment suitable for the space environment should take into account safety, power, volume, water consumption, air pollution, waste production, cleanliness, and noise. One such piece of equipment is a multifunctional fruit and vegetable processing system developed by NASA for cutting, heating, separation, and concentration [ 199 , 200 ]: for example, the system can process tomatoes into tomato juice, tomato sauce, tomato slice, and tomato soup.…”

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Long-Term Space Nutrition: A Scoping Review

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Majji

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This scoping review aimed to identify current evidence and gaps in the field of long-term space nutrition. Specifically, the review targeted critical nutritional needs during long-term manned missions in outer space in addition to the essential components of a sustainable space nutrition system for meeting these needs. The search phrase “space food and the survival of astronauts in long-term missions” was used to collect the initial 5432 articles from seven Chinese and seven English databases. From these articles, two independent reviewers screened titles and abstracts to identify 218 articles for full-text reviews based on three themes and 18 keyword combinations as eligibility criteria. The results suggest that it is possible to address short-term adverse environmental factors and nutritional deficiencies by adopting effective dietary measures, selecting the right types of foods and supplements, and engaging in specific sustainable food production and eating practices. However, to support self-sufficiency during long-term space exploration, the most optimal and sustainable space nutrition systems are likely to be supported primarily by fresh food production, natural unprocessed foods as diets, nutrient recycling of food scraps and cultivation systems, and the establishment of closed-loop biospheres or landscape-based space habitats as long-term life support systems.

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Long-Term Space Nutrition: A Scoping Review

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Majji

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Nutrients

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“…Due to the 180-day transit time to Mars, it is necessary to provide products with shelf-lives of 3-5 years, while maintaining high quality to alleviate the severe psychological effects of long-duration space travel (Drysdale et al, 1999;Voit, Santos, & Singh, 2006). In addition, foods need to be heated to serving temperature or waste sterilized after consumption using as little energy as possible, and the food packaging and heating elements need to be lightweight.…”

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Migration of electrode components during ohmic heating of foods in retort pouches

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Sastry

Samaranayake

2007

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

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Mission to Mars: Food Production and Processing for the Final Frontier

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2012

Annu. Rev. Food Sci. Technol.

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The food systems of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have evolved tremendously since the early manned spaceflights of the 1960s. To date, NASA's mission focus has been limited to exploration of low Earth orbit (LEO), and the agency's prepackaged food systems have been adequate to enable success of their parent programs. With NASA's mission focus increasing to achieve manned space exploration of the Martian surface, the agency is considering a significant departure from the prepackaged food systems of current and past space programs. NASA's Advanced Food Technology (AFT) project is presently investigating the introduction of a bioregenerative food system to support long duration habitat missions to the Martian surface. A bioregenerative food system is expected to impart less of a burden on critical mission resources, such as mass and volume, than a prepackaged, shelf-stable system. This review provides an introduction to past and present spaceflight food systems, and provides a broad examination of the research conducted to date to enable crop production and food processing on the Martian surface.

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Development of a multipurpose fruit and vegetable processor for a manned mission to Mars

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Long-Term Space Nutrition: A Scoping Review

Long-Term Space Nutrition: A Scoping Review

Migration of electrode components during ohmic heating of foods in retort pouches

Mission to Mars: Food Production and Processing for the Final Frontier

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