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Space miso tastes weird—not bad, but… different

Allan Rose Hill
Apr 07, 2025
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Space miso in the center. (Maggie Coblentz)

Food researchers ran a rather curious culinary experiment aboard the International Space Station—they fermented soybeans into miso to see how the offworld environment affected the flavor. Josh Evans of the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen and colleagues mixed cooked soybeans with salt and fermented…

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