"early NASA manned space flights. In 1962, when Mercury astronaut John Glenn conducted eating experiments in orbit, Tang was selected for the menu; it was also used during some Gemini flights, and has also been carried aboard numerous space shuttle missions. Although many soda companies sent specially-designed canned drinks into space with the crew of STS-51-F, the crew preferred to use Tang, as it could be mixed into existing water containers easily. In 2013, former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin said ""Tang sucks."" The creator of Tang, William A. Mitchell, also invented Pop Rocks, Cool Whip, a form of instant-set Jell-O,"
"without gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach, burping results in a kind of vomiting called ""wet burping"". Coca-Cola and Pepsi were first carried on STS-51-F in 1985. Coca-Cola has flown on subsequent missions in a specially designed dispenser that utilizes BioServe Space Technologies hardware used for biochemical experiments. Space Station Mir carried cans of Pepsi in 1996. Beer has also been developed that counteracts the reduction of taste and smell reception in space and reduces the possibility of wet belches (vomiting caused by belching) in microgravity. Produced by Vostok 4-Pines Stout, a parabolic flight experiment validated"
"squeeze tubes or collect crumbs. Prior to the mission, the astronauts were also fed ""low residual"" launch-day breakfasts, to reduce the chances that they would defecate in flight. Several of the food issues from the Mercury missions were addressed for the later Gemini missions (1965–1966). Tubes (often heavier than the foods they contained) were abandoned. Gelatin coatings helped to prevent bite-sized cubes from crumbling. Simpler rehydration methods were developed. The menus also expanded to include items such as shrimp cocktail, chicken and vegetables, toast squares, butterscotch pudding, and apple juice. The crew of Gemini III sneaked a corned beef sandwich"
"the popularity of the space program. Space Food Sticks were developed by Robert Muller, the inventor of the HACCP standards used by the food industry to ensure food safety. When NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter launched into space on Mercury capsule Aurora 7 in 1962, he was carrying with him the first solid space food small food cubes developed by Pillsbury's research and development department. Taking Pillsbury scientists more than a year to develop, space food cubes were followed by other space-friendly foods, such as cake that was not crumbly, relish that could be served in slices and meat that needed"
"Jet-Puffed Marshmallows Jet-Puffed Marshmallows are a product of Kraft Foods, first introduced in 1958. It was sold as a national brand in 1959. It has more than 30 different flavors to its brand name. It was first a simulated space ship, of one made by Aerojet-General Corporation, for Kraft to sell because it was in a limited market the first year. Nineteen U.S. cities had young people waiting in long lines for their chance to sit at the control panels they had from them. Kraft gave away the space ship as the top prize in the ""Name the Space Training"
"products such as frozen Jell-O Pops (in gelatin and pudding varieties); the new Sugar-Free Jell-O, which replaced D-Zerta in 1984 and was sweetened with NutraSweet; Jell-O Jigglers concentrated gummi snacks; and Sparkling Jell-O, a carbonated version of the dessert touted as the ""Champagne of Jell-O."" In 2010, Cosby returned as Jell-O spokesperson in an on-line web series called ""OBKB."" In the 1980s, a Jell-O advertising campaign slogan reminded consumers, ""Don't forget—you have to remember to make it."" In 1990, General Foods merged into Kraft Foods by parent company Philip Morris (now the Altria Group). New flavors were continually introduced: watermelon,"
"called Carnation Breakfast Essentials)was introduced in 1964. It is a powdered instant drink that is manufactured with protein, vitamins and minerals and sugar. It is typically prepared with milk, and is available in different flavors, such as chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. Powdered forms are marketed in individual-serving packets and in cans. Carnation also manufactures prepared bottled instant breakfast drinks in liquid form. Another type of instant breakfasts are frozen ready-made meals that are heated in a microwave oven or standard oven. Instant breakfast Instant breakfast typically refers to breakfast food products that are manufactured in a powdered form, which are"
"Sherry for one Skylab mission and packaged some for testing on a reduced gravity aircraft. In microgravity smells quickly permeate the environment and the agency found that the sherry triggered the gag reflex. Concern over public reaction to taking alcohol into space led NASA to abandon its plans, so astronauts drank the purchased supply while consuming their pre-mission special diet. The astronauts of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975) received samples of Soviet space food when the combined crew dined together. Among the foods provided by Soyuz 19 were canned beef tongue, packaged Riga bread, and tubes of borscht (beet soup)"
"(its competitor Pepsi stayed out of Israel). Mecca Cola and Pepsi have been successful alternatives in the Middle East. A Coca-Cola fountain dispenser (officially a Fluids Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus or FGBA) was developed for use on the Space Shuttle as a test bed to determine if carbonated beverages can be produced from separately stored carbon dioxide, water, and flavored syrups and determine if the resulting fluids can be made available for consumption without bubble nucleation and resulting foam formation. FGBA-1 flew on STS-63 in 1995 and dispensed pre-mixed beverages, followed by FGBA-2 on STS-77 the next year. The latter mixed"
"Space Food Sticks to test their ""gastrointestinal compatibility"". Capitalizing on the popularity of the Apollo space missions, Pillsbury marketed Space Food Sticks as a ""nutritionally balanced between meal snack"". Fourteen individually packaged sticks were included in a box, and came in six flavors such as peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. Space Food Sticks disappeared from North American supermarket shelves in the 1980s. They were revived by Retrofuture Products, of Port Washington, NY in 2006. Two flavors, chocolate and peanut butter, were released. They are being sold at flight museums such as the Kennedy Space Center and the Smithsonian Air &"
"kid foods that Silverman created for Pillsbury was Nugget Town, chocolate flavored nuggets that came in eight different, collectable packages that when popped open and folded made into a whole western town. The TV commercial featured Buddy Hackett as the voice of the town's little bear sheriff. Also, there was Gorilla Milk—""...you'll go ape for Gorilla Milk, a glass in the morning and you'll swing all day""—a protein additive that turned milk into an instant breakfast. This product, aimed at teenagers, was not successful going against Carnation Instant Breakfast. That decade, Pillsbury also created Space Food Sticks to capitalize on"
"also features in the 1983 song ""Juicy Fruit"" by Mtume. Separately, a catchy Juicy Fruit jingle—""the taste, the taste, the taste is going to move ya!""—was widely recognizable in TV advertisements throughout the 1980s. Juicy Fruit Juicy Fruit is a brand of chewing gum made by the Wrigley Company, a U.S. company that since 2008 has been a subsidiary of the privately held Mars, Incorporated. It was introduced in 1893, and in the 21st century the brand name is recognized by 99 percent of Americans, with total sales in 2002 of 153 million units. Which fruit serves as the model"
"Hi-C fruit drinks were developed as an outgrowth of the contract packer system. Grape, the second flavor introduced, evolved naturally from the fact that the Geneva, Ohio, co-packer was also processing fresh grapes. Apple and cherry drinks were introduced as a result of the fresh fruit processing operations at the Paw Paw, Michigan, co-packer plant. The contract packing concept is still used today by the Coca-Cola Foods Division. As the Hi-C business continued to grow, it attracted the attention of the Minute Maid Corporation, and in 1954 Clinton Foods, Inc., sold its Florida holdings, including Hi-C fruit drinks, to Minute"
"Drop"" story. In 1942 during World War II, General Foods Corporation, successor to the Postum Company established by Charles William Post, contracted to supply instant coffee to the U.S. armed forces. Beginning in the fall of 1945, this product, which by that time had come to be branded as Maxwell House Instant Coffee, entered test markets in the eastern U.S.; it began national distribution the following year. In 1966 the company introduced ""Maxwell House ElectraPerk,"" developed specifically for electric percolators. In 1969 General Foods in the UK launched granulated coffee in a presentation at the London Hilton hotel, using a"
"House candy during his eighth and final year in office."") Reagan made them the first jelly beans in space, sending them on the Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission in 1983, surprising the astronauts. In 2001 the company renamed itself to Jelly Belly Candy Company. The company's signature product, the Jelly Belly jelly bean, comes in more than 50 varieties, ranging from traditional flavors like orange, lemon, lime, and cherry, to more exotic ones like cinnamon, pomegranate, cappuccino, buttered popcorn, and chili-mango. Jelly Belly Candy Company manufactures numerous specialty Jelly Belly jelly beans with licensed products like Tabasco sauce"
"in tin with Spearmint (Green), Peppermint (Light Blue), Winterfrost (Blue), Orange (Orange), Blackcurrant (Purple) Flavor and Lime (Silver and Green) Flavor, and Eclipse sugarfree gum are sold in resealable bag with Spearmint (Green), Peppermint (Blue), Polar Ice (Silver), and Lemon Ice (Yellow) Flavors. Eclipse (breath freshener) Eclipse is a brand of chewing gum and breath mint, first introduced in the U.S. by the Wrigley Company in 1999 as its first entrant into the pellet gum segment. However, it was modeled after Excel in Canada, which was launched in 1991, eight years before Eclipse was launched. Eclipse is a brand that"
"can and will be filled with Pocari Sweat powder. It was going be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in October 2015 however it is now delayed with a target goal of Summer 2016. Once it arrives, Pocari Sweat will be the first commercial product advertised on the Moon. Pocari Sweat Pocari Sweat is a mild-tasting, relatively light, non-carbonated sweet beverage and is advertised as an ""ion supply drink"". It has a mild grapefruit flavor with little aftertaste. Ingredients listed are water, sugar, citric acid, trisodium citrate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium lactate, magnesium carbonate, and flavoring. It is"
"and in 1927 Postum acquired Clarence Birdseye's frozen foods company to form the General Foods Corporation. By 1930, there appeared a vogue in American cuisine for congealed salads, and the company introduced lime-flavored Jell-O to complement the add-ins that cooks across the country were combining in these aspics and salads. Popular Jell-O recipes often included ingredients like cabbage, celery, green peppers, and even cooked pasta. By the 1950s, salads would become so popular that Jell-O responded with savory and vegetable flavors such as celery, Italian, mixed vegetable and seasoned tomato. These flavors have since been discontinued. In 1934, sponsorship from"
"Yellow), and ""Raspberry Red"". Five fruit shapes and colors were added over the years: ""Grapity (or Grapey) Purple"", (1984–present), ""Lime Green"" (1991-1998, 2007-2015, 2017–present), ""Wildberry Blue"" (1996–2007, 2018–present), ""Berry Blue"" (2007-2015, 2017–present), and ""Watermelon"" (1998-2007, 2018–present). In 1991 and again in 1995, the cereal pieces were given a brighter, more colorful look. General Mills' Yoplait division produces a Trix-branded yogurt marketed to children with sweetened fruit flavors such as ""Watermelon Burst"". Later, Trix Swirls were introduced, with flavors such as ""Rasp-orangey orange swirl"" (a mix of the Orangey orange and Raspberry red flavors). A new flavor, ""Wildberry Red Swirl"", was"
"by Pillsbury's food engineers, such as non-crumbly cake, relish that could be served in slices, and meat that needed no refrigeration. In 1970, Pillsbury filed for a trademark for a ""non-frozen balance energy snack in rod form containing nutritionally balanced amounts of carbohydrate, fat and protein"" which they dubbed ""Space Food Sticks"". No basis for use of the term ""nutritionally balanced"" was provided. A forerunner of energy bars, Space Food Sticks were promoted by Pillsbury for their association with NASA's efforts to create safe, healthy and nutritional space food. In 1972, astronauts on board Skylab 3 ate modified versions of"
"Ship"" promotion they had going on. In 1964 Jet-Puffed marshmallows began making Easter candies, cookies, and cupcakes. Kraft has offered a replica of the marshmallow dispenser that Spock used in the movie ""Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"". Orange, chocolate and original. Jet-Puffed Marshmallows Jet-Puffed Marshmallows are a product of Kraft Foods, first introduced in 1958. It was sold as a national brand in 1959. It has more than 30 different flavors to its brand name. It was first a simulated space ship, of one made by Aerojet-General Corporation, for Kraft to sell because it was in a limited market"
"is currently available in Original, Sugar Free, Charged Citrus, Cherried Out, GT Grape, Rowdy, and Nitro Mango. In February 2005, the Fuze Beverage company launched the beverage. The name ""NOS"" was licensed from Holley Performance Products, which manufactures the Nitrous Oxide Systems (NOS) brand of automotive nitrous injection systems. According to Holley, NOS is the first automotive product to have a consumable food product share its name and logo. In February 2007, Fuze was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, which transferred the NOS licence to Coca-Cola. On June 12, 2015, Coca-Cola announced the transfer of its energy division, including NOS"
"AM on the morning of the flight and ate a breakfast of orange juice, filet mignon, eggs, toast, and coffee. Prior to insertion in the capsule, he was administered a hydration regimen of water, juice, coffee, and sweet tea. He ascended into the gantry at 4:36, and entered the spacecraft at 4:43. Unlike Mercury-Atlas 6, there was no problem with the sealing bolts. Launch occurred at 7:45 AM (Florida time) on 24 May 1962. Launch vehicle performance was overall excellent with one small anomaly in that one of the sustainer engine's hydraulic switches moved to the abort position at T+265"
"Juicy Fruit Juicy Fruit is a brand of chewing gum made by the Wrigley Company, a U.S. company that since 2008 has been a subsidiary of the privately held Mars, Incorporated. It was introduced in 1893, and in the 21st century the brand name is recognized by 99 percent of Americans, with total sales in 2002 of 153 million units. Which fruit serves as the model for its flavor is kept vague in advertising, though in 2003, advertising agency BBDO characterized it as a combination of banana and pineapple, and some people say it resembles jackfruit. According to two books"
"item name: Capitalizing on the popularity of the Apollo space missions, Pillsbury marketed ""Food Sticks"" (also known as ""Space Food Sticks"") for the consumer market in the early 1970s. Fourteen individually packaged sticks were included in a box, and came in six flavors such as peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. Food Sticks were marketed as a ""nutritionally balanced between meal snack"". Most of these products can now be found in NASA Space Center gift shops, general novelty shops or at Army Surplus stores. A popular example is freeze-dried ice cream. Campers have taken to using products such as Tang due"
"Food succeeded in returning Postum to many grocery stores across the United States and Canada. Postum Postum is a powdered roasted-grain beverage once popular as a coffee substitute. The caffeine-free beverage was created by Post Cereal Company founder C. W. Post in 1895 and marketed as a healthful alternative to coffee. The Post Cereal Company eventually became General Foods, which was bought by Kraft Foods. Eliza's Quest Foods (www.postum.com) now owns the trademark rights and secret recipe of Postum. Post was a student of John Harvey Kellogg, who believed that caffeine was unhealthy. The ""instant"" drink mix version was developed"
"named ""Delta 7""), Carpenter was assigned to replace him. He flew into space on May 24, 1962, atop the Mercury-Atlas 7 rocket for a three-orbit science mission that lasted nearly five hours. His ""Aurora 7"" spacecraft attained a maximum altitude of and an orbital velocity of . Carpenter performed five onboard experiments per the flight plan, and became the first American astronaut to eat solid food in space. He also identified the mysterious ""fireflies"" observed by Glenn during ""Friendship 7"" as particles of frozen liquid loosened from the outside of the spacecraft, which he could produce by rapping on the"
"General Foods General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions. In November 1985, General Foods was acquired by Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group, Inc.) for $5.6 billion, the largest non-oil acquisition to that time. In December 1988, Philip Morris acquired Kraft, Inc., and, in 1990, combined the two food companies as Kraft General Foods (KGF). ""General Foods"" was dropped from the corporate name in 1995 and now exists only as"
"fruit drops. In 1925, technology improved to allow a hole in the center of the fruit candies. These were introduced as the ""fruit drop with the hole"" and came in Orange, Lemon and Lime, each of which were packaged in their own separate rolls. In contrast to the opaque white mints previously produced by the company, these new candies were crystal-like in appearance. These new flavors quickly became popular with the public. Four new flavors were quickly introduced, namely, anise, butter rum, cola and root beer, which were made in the clear fruit drop style. These did not prove to"
"Postum Postum is a powdered roasted-grain beverage once popular as a coffee substitute. The caffeine-free beverage was created by Post Cereal Company founder C. W. Post in 1895 and marketed as a healthful alternative to coffee. The Post Cereal Company eventually became General Foods, which was bought by Kraft Foods. Eliza's Quest Foods (www.postum.com) now owns the trademark rights and secret recipe of Postum. Post was a student of John Harvey Kellogg, who believed that caffeine was unhealthy. The ""instant"" drink mix version was developed in 1912, replacing the original brewed beverage. Postum is made from roasted wheat bran, wheat,"
"Starburst (confectionery) Starburst (originally known as Opal Fruits) is the brand name of a box-shaped, fruit-flavored soft taffy candy manufactured by The Wrigley Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated. Starburst has many different varieties such as Tropical, Sour, FaveReds, Very Berry, Superfruit Flavor and Original. The original flavors include: strawberry, lemon, orange, and cherry (changed from the initial lime). The tropical flavors include: strawberry banana, pina colada, cherry kiwi, and mango melon. The brand was introduced by Mars in the UK in 1960, named Opal Fruits by Peter Phillips (known as Peter Pfeffer at the time), the winner of a"
"times since its launch in 1929. In 2006, the version of the product sold in the U.S. was reformulated so it could be marketed as being ""100% natural"". This was achieved by eliminating the chelating agent calcium disodium EDTA, and replacing sodium citrate with potassium citrate to reduce the beverage's sodium content. This reformulation contains no fruit juice and, in the U.S., is sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). The manufacturing process used in the production of HFCS has led some public health and advocacy groups to challenge the ad campaign's ""natural"" claims. In 2007, after the Center for Science"
"amount of dextrose. They also contain small amounts of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, citric acid, sodium citrate, acetylated monoglycerides, fruit pectin, malic acid, ascorbic acid, natural flavors, and artificial colors. In 2011, the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued General Mills over Fruit Roll-Ups, saying that their packaging and marketing was misleading because it presented the product as a nutritious, healthful, fruit-filled snack, despite having approximately the same nutritional profile as gummy bear candies. The lawsuit was settled out of court with General Mills agreeing not to put pictures of fruits on the labels, unless that fruit was"