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Space foods in DFRL menu

At a time when India debates manned missions to space, Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore has already fed the Indian and NASA astronauts. Space foods differ from the regular earthly food in their nutritional profile. To meet the physiological and nutritional requirements in space, DFRL has designed Space Foods with decreased fat and increased [...]



Meat Testing Kits for Indian Armed Forces

24 May, 2007 (FIDSNS) By Deepa Prakash: Correspondent – South India Meat and meat products form an integral part of food for the armed forces. Meat on hoof was a part of food supplies before the advent of processed meat; cattle and sheep were carried along by the army during wartime and slaughtered in the [...]