ESA space food

ESA space food

André has recently been following a special diet on the ISS – find out why in his latest blog post…

“The last few weeks I was on a diet. Not that I am too fat, but for some experiments I need to follow a strict diet, such as for the European SOLO experiment. Twice Dan Burbank and I ate a special diet for five days. The experiment is about salt and is called SOLO (SOdium LOad in microgravity). Dan and I eat a diet with normal salt content for a week (11.5 grams a day), and a diet with low salt the other week (2,9 grams a day).

Read more in André’s blog: On a diet for international science.