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Processing of nutritious, safe and acceptable foods from CELSS candidate cropsA controlled ecological life-support system (CELSS) is required to sustain life for long-duration space missions. The challenge is preparing a wide variety of tasty, familiar, and nutritious foods from CELSS candidate crops under space environmental conditions. Conventional food processing technologies will have to be modified to adapt to the space environment. Extrusion is one of the processes being examined as a means of converting raw plant biomass into familiar foods. A nutrition-improved pasta has been developed using cowpea as a replacement for a portion of the durum semolina. A freeze-drying system that simulates the space conditions has also been developed. Other technologies that would fulfill the requirements of a CELSS will also be addressed.
Document ID
20040089893
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Fu, B.
(Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1160, United States)
Nelson, P. E.
Irvine, R.
Kanach, L. L.
Mitchell, C. A.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1996
Publication Information
Publication: Advances in space research : the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
Volume: 18
Issue: 2-Jan
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-2329
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Discipline Number 93-10
Non-NASA Center
NASA Program NSCORT
NASA Discipline Life Support Systems

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