Scientists announced on Wednesday (April 2) that they successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new ...

Japanese cuisine wouldn’t be the same without miso — but astronauts wanting use the fermented soybean staple in space one day might have to get used to a difference in taste. An experiment on board ...

Forget chalky freeze-dried ice cream or some individually packaged mashed potatoes. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have now proved that delectable fermented delicacies like the ...

Scientists studied miso fermentation on the ISS versus Earth to understand how space conditions affect flavor, texture, and microbial composition. Space-fermented miso developed a darker color and a ...

New research has confirmed that it is possible to ferment food and other products in space, with their latest study focusing on creating a "Space Miso" right in the International Space Station. The ...

If there is a future where people regularly travel through space, what will they eat? Today’s astronaut food, although a novelty for those of us with our feet firmly planted on Earth, is not ...

If you were wondering whether it’d be possible to ferment foods in space, the answer is apparently yes. In a study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the US and Denmark say they were ...

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