Japanese Astronauts To Eat Curry Ramen & Kewpie Mayonnaise
As this Mezamashi TV report from this morning confirms, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has unveiled a variety of space-friendly food produced by several Japanese companies, which will finally give Japanese astronauts on the International Space Station some awesome Japanese menu choices:
Pink Tentacle, which always provides awesome coverage of the latest cool tech news from Japan, has translated the full list of Japanese companies and the space food they developed:
- Ajinomoto: Egg soup
- Onishi Foods: White rice, rice with red azuki beans, rice with red azuki beans and wild greens, salmon onigiri
- Kagome: Tomato ketchup, vegetable sauce, vegetable jelly drink (tomato/carrot)
- Kewpie: Mayonnaise, rice porridge
- Nissin: Soy sauce ramen, seafood ramen, curry ramen
- House Foods: Curry (beef/pork/chicken)
- Maruha: Mackerel in miso sauce, sardines in tomato sauce, kabayaki saury (broiled with sweet soy sauce)
- Mitsui Norin: Powdered green tea, powdered oolong tea
- Meiji: Functional drink (amino jelly)
- Yamazaki Baking: Azuki bean yokan (jelly), chestnut yokan
- Yamazaki-Nabisco: Kuroame (brown sugar candy), mint candy
- Riken Vitamin: Wakame (seaweed) soup, clear soup
Which food do you think the the non-Japanese astronauts will most want to try?
