Space Food, Cheese Cracker Cubes, Apollo 16 (White)

This spacefood package contains compressed cheese/cracker cubes and was flown on the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972. As it was not consumed during the mission, it was returned to Earth.

This was a snack food which could be eaten directly from the bag, and was "bite-sized" for ease of consumption, and prevented crumbs from floating around the spacecraft cabin. Apollo astronauts were provided with three meals per day which provided approximately 2,800 calories.

The food was protected with a 4-ply, laminated film coating. This protected the food from loss of flavor, moisture and oxygen invasion, spoiling and excess crumbling, and was used on both the rehydratable and the bite-sized foods. The rehydratable foods also had an 8-quinolinol sulfate tablet attached to reduce spoilage in the used food wraps.

Transferred from NASA to the Museum in 1971.