date:Sep 07, 2016
humans. The harvest was so large that it was easily possible to serve a full, vegetarian, meal.
Heavy metal
The actual Mars and moon soils, as well as the simulants used here, contain heavy metals such as lead, mercury and chromium. To make sure that they do not end up in the food and thus in the consumers, the astronauts, they were first tested for tomato, radish, pea and rye. Wamelink: Happily the contents were very low and far below the maximum allowable dose, so the vegetables can be eaten