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The popular perception is that space food is liquid and consists of a formula of easily digested macronutrients such as amino acids, fatty acids, and di- or oligosaccharides, which also contains the micronutrients required to keep a person healthy. A formula diet is different from food for astronauts in space, which sometimes in layman’s terms is called “astronaut’s diet.” A formula diet is developed for people who, mostly because of disease, are not able to chew more solid food adequately or to digest the more complex nutrients from the food so that they can easily be absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. Formula diets are also intended for patients who might need a huge amount of energy, which cannot easily be provided by regular food components.
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Heer, M., Titze, J., Smith, S.M., Baecker, N. (2015). Nutrition in Space. In: Nutrition Physiology and Metabolism in Spaceflight and Analog Studies. SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18521-7_2
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