The Importance of a balanced diet

Year 8 students have been learning about the digestive system and the importance of the maintaining a balanced diet. The students have learned about deficiency diseases including anaemia, scurvy and rickets. Producing nutritious foods that can compliment a balanced diet is becoming increasingly difficult as the global population continues to grow.  Lab grown foods are a possible solution to meet these increasing demands and for the first time, a European Space Agency (ESA) project is assessing the viability of growing so-called lab-grown food in the low gravity and higher radiation in orbit.

Steak, mashed potatoes and deserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if experiments launched into orbit recently is successful.

Mr Knee

Science Department

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