Russian space food on sale in Moscow. Photo: Nasa\/Collectspace.com <\/p>\n
Move over astronaut ice cream, Russian space food tubes have arrived. <\/p>\n
As of Friday February 6, the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow now sells authentic cosmonaut food to the public, the state-run Sputnik news service reported. <\/p>\n
The centre, a sprawling trade show also known by the Russian acronym VDNKh, is marketing the cosmic cuisine in toothpaste-like tubes. <\/p>\n
\"Visitors [to VDNKh] will have a chance to try a full-course cosmonaut menu, including four kinds of soups, various meat dishes and a variety of desserts,\" the Sputnik report said. <\/p>\n
\"According to organisers, there will be 11 variations of tubes, each tasting like a different kind of food.\" <\/p>\n
The selection, according to the Russian website Menu.ru, include marinated lamb and pork with vegetables, cottage cheese dessert with sea buckthorn fruit, and apricot, apple and blackcurrant puree. <\/p>\n
The tubes, which are offered through a vending machine, cost 300 rubles, or about (US)$4.50, each. <\/p>\n
They are produced by the same factory and using the same methods as the food that is prepared for the Russian cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station. <\/p>\n
\"Producers do not use any genetically-modified products and assure that the food in the tubes is made from natural ingredients only,\" the news service noted. <\/p>\n
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