Dinner's on

ScienceDaily delivers - that is, delivers ACS Food Science & Technology's food, to space.

We're looking for longterm foodstuffs as can be grown in a sweetspot between least-resources required, and not having the crew mutiny and become cannibals instead. ACS came up with soybeans, poppy seeds, barley, kale, peanuts, sweet potato ... sunflower seeds. Lots of seeds and nuts, as you see.

I wouldn't limit this menu. The 'nauts might want yeast for protein, a softer barley-bread - or just marmite. Maybe Mission-Control don't want their 'nauts to be brewing hooch. Also: do the other seeds need work? I hear that we generally need to treat (for a start) almonds and olives. Don't peanuts get roasted? But then, ACS chose these seeds precisely for being low-maintenance.

The mention of peanuts trigger an autoimmune response in me (not the peanuts themselves, I love those). Some might handwave this as "we'll just screen for it on the launchpad". I am unsure I like this. Luckily, we may be able to mitigate.

As for where ACS serve this repast, that (I think) would be on our own sweet moon. Asteroid stations, next.

Water-usage was a pain-point. Some might think: the 'naut eating (say) a banana will enjoy the water locked in that; this water is no longer needed for drink. Against that, the station needs water (and hydrogen ions) for other purposes.