Space Food

Salisbury Steak made from Hokkaido Beef and cherry tomatoes

Salisbury Steak made from Hokkaido Beef and cherry tomatoes

About 90 % of the salisbury steak is made of additive-free ingredients produced in Hokkaido. The main ingredient is the beef made in Hokkaido tokachi Shimizu Town. Umami-rich cherry tomatoes are used for both the patty and the sauce with focus on astronauts' health. Good taste lasts up to the last bite.

Stewed Nagoya Cochin chicken with miso sauce

Stewed Nagoya Cochin chicken with miso sauce

The "Nagoya Cochin, simmered in miso" is a side dish containing various ingredients such as chicken of "Nagoya Cochin, Sagami's genuine breed," burdock root and arum root. It is stewed with soup seasoned Haccho-miso, product of Aichi. It can be consumed even without additional cooking. This product has been realized with the help of Sagami Women's University and Ishida Food Creation Co., Ltd..

Ramen Noodles, Chicken and Soy Sauce Flavor

Ramen Noodles, Chicken and Soy Sauce Flavor

This product is a version of the world's first instant ramen noodles, modified for being eaten in microgravity. It marks the original's 62nd anniversary. Chicken Ramen is characterized by its umami of chicken and the aroma of soy sauce reproduced in this product. Egg and chicken have enhanced the chicken noodles' taste.

Japanese Style "Yakisoba" Noodles

Japanese Style "Yakisoba" Noodles

Nissin's popular product, Nissin Yakisoba U.F.O. (pan-fried noodles), has been modified for being eaten in space. Yakisoba U.F.O. is characterized by its spicy special sauce. This new version of the product reproduces the flavor of the original with its powdered sauce and is based on a new type of noodle that absorbs all the added hot water. This makes it ideal for preparation in space since disposing of extra water is not feasible in a space environment. The crunchy cabbage and pork add to the tastiness.

Rice with Spicy Curry Sauce

Rice with Spicy Curry Sauce

Nissin's popular product, Curry Meshi, is a popular new style of curry and rice that has been modified to be eaten in space. This new product is easy to prepare and is delivered as puffed rice that can be reconstituted in hot water and a solid curry roux with authentic curry taste. This spicy, flavorful product is based on the umami of chicken and vegetables.

Rice with Beef Flavored Stew

Rice with Beef Flavored Stew

Nissin's popular product, Curry Meshi, is a popular new style of curry and rice that has been modified to be eaten in space. This new product is easy to prepare and is delivered as puffed rice that can be reconstituted in hot water and a solid curry roux with authentic curry taste. The new product is easy to prepare. Nissin Hayashi Meshi, rice with hashed beef, is rich in flavor with beef, fried onion, and tomato.

Pork and Mushroom Curry

Pork and Mushroom Curry

This product is a high-class curry whose flavor was created by chief chef Koga of the French restaurant Chez Inno in Kyobashi, Tokyo. With his professional technique, the texture and umami of Iberian pork and mushroom along with the mellow scent of balsamic sauce tailored this high-class European-style dark-smooth curry sauce.

Fried Chicken (freeze-dry)

Fried Chicken (freeze-dry)

The "Kara-age Kun" (Lawson and Nichirei copyright) is a very familier food in Japan. It is developed freeze drying freez-dried and cut bite-size for good taste in space as same as on the ground. The "Kara-age Kun" (Lawson and Nichirei copyright) bring you good taste and fun in your mouth with biting more and more.

Nutritional milk powder

Nutritional milk powder

"Morinaga Milk Life for space" is a powdered milk for adults based on the Morinaga Milk Industry's 100th anniversary of dry milk manufactureing. It is the same product grade as the manufacturer's commercialized "Milk Life." It is contained several supplements developed by Morinaga Milk through long-running research and a well-balanced combination of nutrients required by the adult body for good taste and healthy life in space.

Horse mackerel smoked salt flavor

Horse mackerel smoked salt flavor

Horse mackerel caught off the coast of Kyusyu is seasoned with salt,fish soy and smoking liquid, then dried by the cold wind.
Eating bone contained in this product together helps take a lot of calcium. In addition, this product containes moderate amount of salt to consider health.

Chirimen-Sansho (Sansho Pepper Seasoned Small Dried Sardines)

Chirimen-Sansho (Sansho Pepper Seasoned Small Dried Sardines)

Sansho-pepper-seasoned small dried sardines are called "tsukudani" in Japanese. Japanese dried sardines and sansho-pepper are boiled with light-color soy sauce, sugar and seasoning. This product is characterized by spicy taste and favor of small fish and also contains a lot of calcium.

Grilled Chicken, Soy Sauce Taste

Grilled Chicken, Soy Sauce Taste

Domestically-produced chicken meat is char-grilled and seasoned with a dense sweet sauce. It has the same product grade as the manufacturer's commercialized "Canned Hotei-no-Yakitori." The same food on the ground can be consumed in space.

Grilled Chicken, Yuzu Pepper Taste

Grilled Chicken, Yuzu Pepper Taste

Domestically-produced chicken meat is char-grilled and salt / yuzukosho are used to season the meat for a fresh spicy taste. It has the same product grade as the manufacturer's commercialized "Canned Hotei-no-Yakitori." The same food on the ground can be consumed in space.

Milk candy

Milk candy

The "Tokuno Milk 8.2" candy is milk candy containing lactosucrose that is effective for normalizing the digestive system. The candy based on a fresh cream produced in Hokkaido has an enjoyable dense taste. It can be sucked at ease in space.

Seasoned Dried Seaweed

Seasoned Dried Seaweed

Seasoned dried seaweed full of flavor, using high-quality dried nori (laver) to which soy sauce and mirin (sweet sake for seasoning) are applied. Nori is a traditional Japanese food with good flavor which contains the three major umami components, good-quality protein and minerals.

Canned Mackerel in soy sauce

Canned Mackerel in soy sauce

A canned mackerel developed by students of the Marine Studies department, Fukui Prefectural Wakasa High School. Techniques of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) have been applied to the seasoning and canning of fresh mackerel cultivated at Tagarasu, Obama City. This canned soy-sauce seasoned mackerel is a result of the students' twelve years of studies that had been handed over from generation to generation.

Cream filled biscuits

Cream filled biscuits

A plain biscuits in which lemon-flavored cream is sandwiched. It may taste in a way reminding us of old times. This biscuit contains the manufacturer's own bifidobacteria.

Rice Cake

Rice Cake

Dried tablets of pestled cake solely made of glutinous rice and water. To allow astronauts to reduce the cooking time in orbit, these pieces of rice cake are thinner than commercial products.

Soy sauce

Soy sauce

"Raw" soy sauce means that the product has not been subjected to heating process. It is characterized by the sharp transparent color and mild taste. The percentage of salt is reduced by 25 % as compared to the ordinary commercialized soy sauce (salt: 17.5 %). The sealed bottle is designed as a "squeeze-and-serve" package. The soy sauce can be served drip by drip. It has both good taste and useability.

Rice Crackers (Kakinotane with Peanuts)

Rice Crackers (Kakinotane with Peanuts)

An excellent combination of slightly-sweet peanuts and kaki-seed-shaped rice cracker having a spicy-taste! Good texture! Astronauts will enjoy it together.

Jelly (peach)

Jelly (peach)

A peach-juice flavored jelly. It has a lush and soft taste. One pouch of Peach Jelly contains 7.3 g of dietary fibers. It can be stored for 18 months at ambient temperatures.

Balanced nutritional bar (cheese flavor)

Balanced nutritional bar (cheese flavor)

This easy-to-consume supplementary food contains 11 vitamins^※1, 6 minerals^※2, protein, lipin and carbohydrate.

ION DRINK

ION DRINK

Powder typed drink which is rapidly-soluble in water for drink. It is electrolyte solution which has favorable concentration and closer composition to human body fluid. So it's easy to be assimilated into body.

PRUNE EXTRACT

PRUNE EXTRACT

The "Prune Extract" contains many ingredients favorable for esthetics and health of human body, such as various vitamins, minerals, dietary fibers and antioxidant polyphenol. This product is an extract of carefully-selected prunes produced in the sun and the ground of California. It contains neither coloring nor preserving agents.

Chewing gum with xylitol (lime mint)

Chewing gum with xylitol (lime mint)

The sugarless chewing gum with Xylitol (lime mint) is a refreshing, lime-and-mint-flavored chewing gum. It is consumable in space and contains xylitol which is beneficial to astronauts' teeth.

Mackerel with miso sauce

Mackerel with miso sauce

This miso-seasoned mackerel is one of the Japanese dish using eatable fish "mackerel" which plentifully contains DHA, EPA and other nutritional substances. The soup has a stronger viscosity than similar products on the market. This prevents the soup from splashing under microgravity. A retort technology is also adopted to preserve the delicious taste of the fish at ambient temperatures.

Sardine with tomato sauce

Sardine with tomato sauce

This tomato-seasoned sardine is one of the Japanese dish using eatable fish "sardine" which plentifully contains DHA, EPA and other nutritional substances. The soup has a stronger viscosity than similar products on the market. This prevents the soup from splashing under microgravity. A retort technology is also adopted to preserve the delicious taste of the fish at ambient temperatures.

Mackerel with teriyaki sauce

Mackerel with teriyaki sauce

This kabayaki or basted grilled saury is one of the Japanese dish using eatable fish "saury" which plentifully contains DHA, EPA and other nutritional substances. The soup has a stronger viscosity than similar products on the market. This prevents the soup from splashing under microgravity. A retort technology is also adopted to preserve the delicious taste of the fish at ambient temperatures.

Green tea

Green tea

To cope with hard missions in space, it is effective for astronauts to take a break and relax with tea. This powder green tea is granular type tea made from tea leaf. Extract from the tea leaf is condensed and spray-dried. Also flavor and taste is sealed in the pouch. Astronauts can enjoy light-weight and easily-soluble powder green tea without leaving wastes such as tea dregs.

Oolong tea

Oolong tea

To cope with hard missions in space, it is effective for astronauts to take a break and relax with tea. This oolong tea is granular type tea made from tea leaf. Extract from the tea leaf is condensed and spray-dried. Also flavor and taste is sealed in the pouch. Astronauts can enjoy light-weight and easily-soluble powder green tea without leaving wastes such as tea dregs.

Sweet red bean paste

Sweet red bean paste

Neri-yokan or a sweet red bean paste is characterized by good preservative quality. A strict control of material qualities, kneading conditions (temperature and duration) and packing conditions in addition to the traditional techniques and new technical developments allows the product to be stored for one year. This is sweet red bean paste called "Ogura-yokan".

Sweet red bean paste with chestnut

Sweet red bean paste with chestnut

Neri-yokan or a sweet red bean paste is characterized by good preservative quality. A strict control of material qualities, kneading conditions (temperature and duration) and packing conditions in addition to the traditional techniques and new technical developments allows the product to be stored for one year. This is chestnut paste called "Kuri-yokan".

Black sugar candy

Black sugar candy

The Kuroame is a representative traditional Japanese candy. A simple taste of black sugar is mixed with honey to produce this mild-taste candy. Cinnamon is used for hidden flavor to make a candy with fresh aftertaste. The sweet traditional candy will ease human mental and physical fatigue.

Peppermint candy

Peppermint candy

Japanese people are familiar with the herbal flavor of mint (also known as "hakka" among them). This refreshing product is based on peppermint which represents the mint. The flavor will stimulate central nervous system and sharpen the concentration. Also it is expected that fresh feeling with candy will be effective for refreshment under stresses.

Soup with wakame seaweed

Soup with wakame seaweed

This soup with wakame seaweed is packed in a pouch which has a special spout designed for preventing the liquid content from splashing under microgravity. Usual wakame easily gets stuck in the spout. To avoid this issue, wakame is shredded so that it easily runs through the spout. Wakame is rich in natural minerals and dietary fibers, and effective for supplying additional nutrition to astronauts staying long time in space.

Cooked rice, plain

Cooked rice, plain

This cooked rice is alpha rice and uses low-amylose rice which has the best taste and the best texture among the species of rice, considering astronauts' possible changing sense of taste in space. The hot water available on the ISS can be used to reconstitute the rice in its original delicious state.

Cooked rice with Japanese red beans

Cooked rice with Japanese red beans

This cooked rice with Japanese red beans is alpha rice and uses low-amylose rice which has the best taste and the best texture among the species of rice, considering astronauts' possible changing sense of taste in space. The hot water available on the ISS can be used to reconstitute the rice in its original delicious state.
A domestically-produced glutinous rice and red beans produced in Hokkaido are used.

Cooked rice with vegetables

Cooked rice with vegetables

This cooked rice with vegetables is alpha rice and uses low-amylose rice which has the best taste and the best texture among the species of rice, considering astronauts' possible changing sense of taste in space. The hot water available on the ISS can be used to reconstitute the rice in its original delicious state.
This cooked rice with vegetables is mixture of the rice "Akitakomachi" and glutinous rice, and contains bracken, spiral spring, winter mushroom and Japanese butterbur, etc.

Rice ball with salmon

Rice ball with salmon

This cooked rice with salmon is alpha rice and uses low-amylose rice which has the best taste and the best texture among the species of rice, considering astronauts' possible changing sense of taste in space. The hot water available on the ISS can be used to reconstitute the rice in its original delicious state.
An optimal balance between two tastes of rice and salmon has been considered to accentuate both of them.

Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise

This product is used for seasoning salad since fresh vegetables are transported to the ISS by Russian Progress cargo spacecraft, H-II Transfer Vehicle "KOUNOTORI" (HTV), etc. for several days of consumption. It is also used as seasoning for daily dish. This product is made by the manufacturing method which eliminates the oxygen contained in the vegetable oil to keep the delicious taste lasting for a long time.

Rice porridge, plain

Rice porridge, plain

This product has a high viscosity (enhanced percentage of rice) for easy consuming and against risk of splashing under microgravity. The natural water from the Mount Fuji and the rice "Koshihikari" are used as ingredients.
A vacuum manufacturing process is adopted to eliminate the negative effect of oxygen and maintain the flavor of freshly boiled rice.

Ramen Noodles, Soy Sauce Flavor

Ramen Noodles, Soy Sauce Flavor

This soup has an enhanced viscosity to lessen the risk of water dispersing under microgravity. The hot water on the ISS (70°C) can be used to reconstitute the product. Reconstituted noodles maintain their shape and do not break up. This product is meant for being eaten in microgravity and is based on the manufacturer's Cup Noodle product.
Main ingredients: shrimp, egg, seasoned minced pork, and green onion.

Ramen Noodles, Seafood Flavor

Ramen Noodles, Seafood Flavor

This soup has an enhanced viscosity to lessen the risk of water dispersing under microgravity. The hot water on the ISS (70°C) can be used to reconstitute the product. Reconstituted noodles maintain their shape and do not break up. This product is meant for being eaten in microgravity and is based on the manufacturer's Seafood Noodle product.
Three types of noodle are prepared depending on the ingredients: soy sauce, seafood and curry.
Main ingredients: cuttlefish, cabbage, crab flavoring, egg, and green onion.

Ramen Noodles, Curry Flavor

Ramen Noodles, Curry Flavor

The soup has an enhanced viscosity to lessen the risk of water dispersing under microgravity. The hot water on the ISS (70°C) can be used to reconstitute the product. Reconstituted noodles maintain their shape and do not break up. This product is meant for being eaten in microgravity and is based on the manufacturer's Cup Noodle Curry product.
Three types of noodle are prepared depending on the ingredients: soy sauce, seafood and curry.
Main ingredients: potato, seasoned minced pork, green onion, and carrot.

Chicken curry

Chicken curry

This curry is seasoned to be spicy and strong taste to deal with an altered sense of taste under microgravity in spacecraft.

• Increased amount of turmeric: 1.7 times the amount in the products commercialized
• Increased amount of calcium: 213 mg / 100 kcal
• Soybean isoflavone added
• House Foods Corporation's internal pungency ranking: equivalent to 3 (medium pungency)

Beef curry

Beef curry

This curry is seasoned to be spicy and strong taste to deal with an altered sense of taste under microgravity in spacecraft.

• Increased amount of turmeric: 1.7 times the amount in the products commercialized
• Increased amount of calcium: 213 mg / 100 kcal
• Soybean isoflavone added
• House Foods Corporation's internal pungency ranking: equivalent to 3 (medium pungency)

Pork curry

Pork curry

This curry is seasoned to be spicy and strong taste to deal with an altered sense of taste under microgravity in spacecraft.

• Increased amount of turmeric: 1.7 times the amount in the products commercialized by House Foods Corporation
• Increased amount of calcium: 213 mg / 100 kcal
• Soybean isoflavone added
• House Foods Corporation's internal pungency ranking: equivalent to 3 (medium pungency)