Compression...... Biscuits? ”

Tang Yue nodded, took out all the remaining compressed biscuits in the cabinet, and piled them on the table, which was taller than Tang Yue himself. These are Tang Yue's next main rations, the soft packs and canned food stored in the Kunlun station are basically eaten, among which the fruits and vegetables with a short shelf life are consumed first, followed by meat, pasta and other rehydrated foods - when Lao Mao and Tang Yue delivered supplies for the space station, they tended to give canned food with better taste to Mai Dong, carrying forward the fine tradition of the Chinese nation of sacrificing oneself for others.

Now there are only these hard and heavy compressed biscuits in Kunlun Station, all kinds of flavors, what braised beef, what Laotan sauerkraut, as well as shrimp fish board and chicken stewed mushrooms - in fact, they all taste the same taste, stacked up like bricks, can crush people to death when picked, and they are not hungry for a day after eating a piece, which is the culprit of Tang Yue's constipation.

The food in the early missions of the Mars Project followed the style of individual combat rations in the army, requiring high energy, small size, long shelf life, and easy to carry, including luncheon meat, chocolate, energy bars, compressed biscuits, and chewing gum to help the eater keep calm, but it was unanimously boycotted by the astronauts because of its poor taste, and some jokingly called it "diet diet food", so in later missions this kind of food was eliminated and did not dominate.

Many compressed biscuits in Kunlun Station are a problem left over from history, and no one wants to eat them, but it is too troublesome to bring them back, so they simply stay in the station as emergency food, and whoever wants to eat them will eat, anyway, these things are not bad for decades.

"Do compressed biscuits contain vitamin C?" Mai Dong asked.

"Theoretically, no." Tang Yue weighed the weight of the compressed biscuit in his hand, "Mai Dong, what is vitamin C?" ”

The girl subconsciously replied, "Ascorbic acid?"

"L-ascorbic acid." Tang Yue nodded, "Vitamin C itself is not stable, it only exists stably in an acidic environment, but it is easy to be oxidized in the air, and the raw materials of compressed biscuits contain sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, which are basically in an alkaline environment during the production process, and will also undergo high-temperature and autoclaved baking, so normal compressed biscuits do not contain vitamin C." ”

"Normal...... Compressed biscuits? Mai Dong realized that this adjective was very abrupt.

If there are normal compressed cookies, will there be abnormal compressed cookies?

"That's right, normal compressed biscuits don't contain vitamin C, but the second-class people in the nutrition center had brain cramps and came up with abnormal compressed biscuits." Tang Yue picked up the mountains of biscuits on the table, "Mai Dong, do you know Lao Yang?" Yang garbled code? ”

Yang garbled code?

Mai Dong frowned, and said in his heart, what kind of ghost name is this? Are parents programmers who have had a nervous breakdown due to a software bug?

"Yang is the one who clamored all day long to make canned Swedish herring and soak it in Laoshan white flower snake grass water."

Mai Dong suddenly realized, Tang Yue reminded her that although she had never heard of this brother's name, his heroic feats had already spread thousands of miles and became a household name, and it was rumored that there was a peerless fierce man who bought a wall of canned Swedish herring online, and another wall of Laoshan white flower snake grass water, buried himself in the laboratory every day, wearing a gas mask and weighing fish meat with an electronic balance, since then the entire building has been stinking, and everyone speculates that this brother may be trying to make biological weapons.

"Lao Yang told me that his mentor was in charge of a project on the retention of nutrients by compressing biscuits and cold processing, and a group of people in the nutrition center used new methods and processes to make biscuits, with the aim of retaining the nutrients in the biscuits as much as possible." Tang Yue tried to recall, "I remember Lao Yang's original words ......'The old man developed a set of processes to make compressed biscuits in an acidic environment without high temperature and high pressure baking...... In the future, vitamin tablets can be saved'. ”

"Can I keep vitamins in cookies?"

"Not only do they have to keep the vitamins in the biscuits, but they also have to stuff the trace elements necessary for the human body into them to make a nutritious biscuit that is easy to eat." Tang Yue nodded, "But it turned out that this was just a very taken for granted, and the project ultimately failed." ”

"Why?"

"Because it's so unpalatable, the cold-made biscuits have not been puffed, and everyone says that the biscuits chew like brick dregs, not only unpalatable but also tooth-cragged, and they would rather take vitamin tablets than eat these so-called nutritious biscuits." Tang Yue explained, "In fact, there is no need to stuff all vitamins into biscuits, the development trend of aerospace food is diversification, and this plan is doomed to failure, but it is said that this plan was led by the CNSA at that time, and it was still hard to take into account the problem of face." ”

Mai Dong nodded, this is understandable.

The sky and the earth are big, and the face is the biggest.

"After the successful trial production, the cold-made biscuits entered the recipes of the astronauts of the Mars program and were sent to the Orion spacecraft, as a source of supplements for trace elements and vitamins for the crew. Tang Yue continued, "The cold-made biscuits quickly dismounted in the midst of shouting, and then the status of compressed biscuits became lower and lower, and the recipes of the crew members were gradually withdrawn, and no one cared about these biscuits anymore......

"Such an unpalatable thing, how can you still win the bid?" Mai Dong felt a little incredible, she was a newcomer, and she had never eaten such earth-shattering cookies.

"Because the manufacturer is a relational household and has a very deep interest entanglement with the logistics department, the cold-made biscuits were still a national key project back then, and the people at the bottom made more than 10 million dollars in the funds of this project." Tang Yue explained, "After this incident was exposed, the first and second leaders of the group all went in, accused of accepting bribes and the unknown source of huge amounts of property, which is said to be more than 200 million." ”

Mai Dong exclaimed, as a small expedition member, in the orbit of Mars hundreds of millions of kilometers away, hearing these moths on the earth again, there is really a feeling of being a spectator.

She has also heard of these messy interests in the Mars landing plan, but she doesn't care, for Mai Dong, the Mars program is a bright pearl in the history of human civilization development, a great milestone, but for some people on Earth, the Mars program is a huge gold mine, an opportunity to get rich overnight, and one ten-thousandth of the benefits from it can make a lot of money.

No matter how magnificent the miracle is, there are twisted maggots and shadows.

Not everyone is looking up at the stars.

Mai Dong patted his cheek and got down to business.

"You mean there's vitamin C in this part of the biscuit? Dismount cold-made biscuits? ”

"Yes!"

"Where's these cookies?" Mai Dong asked.

Tang Yue pointed to the compressed biscuits on the table, "It's in Kunlun Station, right here, in front of me!" ”

Tang Yue walked quickly around the table, his index fingers pressed tightly against his temples, he was trying to think about his memories.

"Let me think, let me think! The cold compressed biscuit has not been used for a long time, when was it put into use? When was it put into service...... When I left Earth in early 2052, Lao Yang told me that it was six years ago! Six years ago, cold-made compressed biscuits officially entered the Mars program, that is, in 2046! ”

"The cold method plan was discontinued after two years, and since then it has been abandoned, and the compressed biscuit production method has all returned to normal, which means that all domestic biscuits from 2046 to 2048 are cold processing!" Tang Yue breathed a long sigh of relief, "From 2046 to 2048, which Mars missions are they?" ”

"The eleventh landing mission in March 2047, the fourth flight of the Orion spacecraft, was the last mission to build a scientific research station."

"Then the compressed cookies brought from the eleventh landing mission are what I want!"

To be honest, finding vitamins in compressed biscuits was also a method that Tang Yue came up with on the spot, he happened to remember what Lao Yang of the nutrition center said when he chatted with him, when the two were sitting together to eat, Tang Yue just listened inadvertently, and never thought that it was possible to save Tang Yue's life.

It's really unintentional.