What will we eat on Mars? Scientists already have our planned menu

Since James Bond's electable President James Bond, Elon Musk, announced plans to start a colony on Mars by the end of the century, the question was: "What's wrong with dinner in space? Printed beef? Are we going to establish domed farms on Ganymede? What about dehydrated Pizza Hut? According to a new article from New space, a scientific journal devoted to extraterrestrial entrepreneurship and innovation, the Martian food pyramid will include laboratory meat, free-range eggs and insects.

In the article titled "Feeding a Million People on Mars", researchers from the University of Central Florida are looking into what it would take to create a self-sustaining food system that can feed a Martian colony. 39, one million. The atmosphere in Mars is not conducive to livestock farming, which means that humans should rely on advanced food technologies and alternative sources of protein if they want to follow a non-vegan diet. Meat, fish, milk and eggs could very well appear on the Martian table, even if they have to be grown in bioreactors from cells imported from the earth.

The researchers think that most of the plants we know and love could also appear on the red planet. they could be grown with hydroponics and possibly in fertilized Martian soil to replicate the growing conditions on Earth. All plants should be grown indoors so that the light and the atmosphere can be strictly controlled, which means that agriculture will favor plants requiring little water, a small footprint step and high efficiency. Things that will not be found in the space colonies of the future: organic products, all-natural products and almond milk (the cultivation of almonds requires a spectacular amount of water). In addition, almost everything that has been grown on Mars will be genetically modified. Therefore, if you want your diet to contain no GMOs, you will have to give up all your astronaut dreams.

If you can not wait another hundred years before you start eating as if you were living on the last frontier, head over to the Eat Like a Martian website, created by the researchers, who can point you to companies that already produce the food of the future. We may be decades away from the new home of humanity, but it's never too early to start planning meals.