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Astronaut Ice Cream SandwichFreeze-Dried, Ready-to-Eat,
Enjoy your ice cream just as the Astronauts do - the freeze-dried way! Astronaut Ice Cream, as well as other freeze-dried food items, have been aboard space missions since the early Mercury Missions. They continue to be used on NASA missions today.
You dont need to be going on a trip to outer space to enjoy these NASA-developed snacks.
Created for the Apollo missions, they are freeze-dried so they have an extended shelf life (all the space food on offer here has at least 12 months shelf life, if not much longer!).
They don't look like real food, yet they taste like real food.
Simply tear open the foil outer and pop the freeze-dried block into the mouth (thereby re-hydrating it in the process) you will find that, more often than not, the unappetising-looking substance explodes with flavour. That makes these authentic all-American astro-snacks a technological marvel in their own right.
How is Astronaut Ice Cream Freeze-Dried?
Freeze-drying, or lysophilization, removes water from the ice cream by lowering the air pressure to a point where ice shifts from a solid to a gas. The ice cream is placed in a vacuum chamber and frozen until the water crystalizes. The air pressure is lowered, creating a vacuum, forcing air out of the chamber; next heat is applied, vapourising the ice; finally a freezing coil traps the vaporized water. This process continues for hours, resulting in a perfect freeze-dried ice cream slice.
INGREDIENTS: MILKFAT, SUGAR, NONFAT MILK, CORN SYRUP, WHEY, STABILIZED AND EMULSIFIED BY MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, CELLULOSE GUM AND CARAGEENAN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR AND VEGETABLE ANNATTO COLOR, WAFER INGREDIENTS: BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, CARAMEL COLOR, CORN SUGAR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OILS, SOYBEAN, COTTON SEED), CORN FLOUR, CORN SYRUP, COCOA, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, BAKING SODA, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN.
ALLERGENS: CONTAINS MILK, WHEAT, SOYBEAN, GLUTEN, MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF PEANUTS AND TREE NUTS.
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Net Weight 28g, Made in the USA Nutritional Facts
Calories 210
Total Fat 8g
Saturated Fat 5g
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 25mg
Sodium 180mg
Total Carbohydrates 30g
Dietary Fiber 0g
Sugars 17g
Protein 4g
Please note that it is normal for the paper packing to be slit and for the product to be broken into chunks as this occurs during the freeze-drying process. |
