"silkworms" news and stories

Astronauts have a limited array of foods that they can produce themselves while in space, due to both space and environmental restrictions. Alain Ducasse has been hard at work creating recipes to satisfy both the palates and the nutritional needs of astronauts, but he's not the only one. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been coming up with their own recipes to sustain men (and women) in space, including cookies. Unfortunately, their cookies involve powdered silkworm pupas. The recipe is "six grams of silkworm pupa powder, 200 grams of rice powder, 50 grams of soy powder and 300 cubic centimeters of soymilk, with soy sauce and salt." The ingredients must be blended with water and "baked" in a 600-watt inductive heating machine. A Chinese researcher said that silkworms might also become standard fare for Chinese astronauts, as they are rich in protein and easy to raise.

Frankly, it seems like Ducasse's foods, which include a rice pudding and a potato and tomato millefeuille, will be more popular.

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