Lettuce Grown In Space!

The astronauts have floated around and have expressed delight as they have tasted something that was entirely unexpected in space.
Did you know that we can also grow in space?
"Awesome! Tastes good! I like that! It's fresh!" they said when they took a bite of "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce.
It has been noticed for the first time that astronauts were able to enjoy these fruits of their labor after they grew produce from seeds and harvested it.
Ice cream was earlier possible in space before the fresh vegetables -- but in space, lettuce is a vegetable that actually tastes the same but this statement can't be said for creamy delights.
In the August of the year 2015 video of NASA has shared the experience; US astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui have appeared surprised as they munch on these leaves.
Researches that were about this lettuce experiment, began in 2014 and got published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science for heralding that space lettuce which isn't just tasty but is also safe for eating.
The first experiment in the early era had happened in May 2014 which was not long after NASA's first-ever Vegetable Production Systems growth chambers that were delivered to the space station.
The outcome from that first harvest was frozen and was then sent back to Kennedy Space Center for its analysis. Initial tests have shown that lettuce was safe.
After that experiment, a multitude of greens have been grown on the area of the space station, and astronauts have been since then consuming some of the fruits of their space labor grown in the station.
Researchers have also analysed that the red romaine lettuce has been cropping from 2014 to 2016 and has determined that lettuce grown in space is not only edible, safe for astronauts for eating but it also doesn’t have any traces of disease-causing microbes and is further as nutritious as lettuce grown on Earth.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/06/world/space-lettuce-iss-scn/index.html