What is the use of space food in space?

Answer 1

To prevent food from spoiling in space they use methods like rehydratable, temperature stabilized, irradiated and natural form foods. Natural form foods they have to consume within short days.

Answer 2

The purpose and application of space food are to keep astronauts healthy and at

peak physical performance. This is accomplished through the process of having

the astronauts eat the food that they have brought to orbit with them. In perfect

accordance with this system, no space food is launched aboard a spacecraft that

is not humanly crewed and which is not intended as a resupply for other humanly

crewed spacecraft.

Answer 3

It is extremely expensive to take anything into space, so efficiency is crucial, not only in terms of the food itself, but also in terms of the equipment that would be needed to store and prepare the food. Dried food is efficient.

Answer 4

because of the amount of gravity there are, food cannot stay fresh(the more you are in space the less time food can stay fresh)

Answer 5

space food has changed from bland tasteless food that was squeezed from a tube to dehydrated meals

Answer 6

Most likely not as space is a vacuum but there's a possibility it might undergo some weird mutation.

Answer 7

They freeze dry it.