Does the Food Taste the Same in Space?

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May 072013
 

In this Let’s Talk Science event with students from Airdrie, Alberta, Chris Hadfield describes how a person’s sense of taste changes in weightlessness. He then shares a collection of Canadian food brought to the Station on board SpaceX’s Dragon. Maple syrup in a tube, anyone?

 

How To Of The Day: How to Eat an Apple

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May 052013
 

This is how you do it!

You waste a third of an apple if you eat it from side to side, down to the core. An apple core, Foodbeast’s Elie Ayrouth argues, is completely edible if you eat it from end to end:

In between bites, Geoff managed, “See, eating it from the sides is wasteful. But if you eat it from the top, the core doesn’t even exist.”

In that moment, Geoff handed the apple back to me. Sure enough, he was nearly halfway through the apple, all without choking on what we normally consider the inedible ‘core.’ Eating from the top allowed more of the pleasant flesh to encompass the surface of every bite.

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