• About this item This product is known to sometimes break or crumble as it is freeze dried and very delicate Space Treats developed for the early Apollo Space Missions Ready to eat straight from the packet Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich: Strawberry, Chocolate, and Vanilla slice between two biscuit wafers Three year shelf life.

Product Description ------------------- It must be odd indeed for astronauts, munching on a tough-looking freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream block while the real Nes glides gracefully past (along with the entire 'boot' of Italy) some 200 miles below. It must be frustrating, too, to know that all that real ice cream is tantalizingly out of reach. Yet, by simply tearing open the foil outer and popping the freeze-dried block into the mouth (thereby re-hydrating it in the process) they find that, more often than not, the unappetizing-looking substance explodes with flavor. That makes these authentic all-American astro-snacks a technological marvel in their own right. They don't look like real food, yet taste like real food. How can this be? Freeze drying is the process that has been applied to astronaut food since the early days when eating the right stuff was as important as having it. It's a fiendishly complex process that can be summarized thus: The ice cream is placed in a vacuum chamber and frozen until the water crystallizes. The air pressure is lowered, forcing air out of the chamber. Next heat is applied, vaporizing the ice. Finally, a freezing coil traps the vaporized water. This process continues for hours, resulting, over time in a perfect freeze-dried ice cream slice. So now you know. All of the goodness. All of the flavor. Yet none of the water content. Amazing. Ingredients ----------- Ice Cream Ingredients: Milk, cream, sugar, corn , non, milk, whey, cocoa processed with alkali, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, artificial flavors, locust bean gum, Polysorbate 80, carrageenan, E129, annatto (color). Wafer Ingredients: Wheat flour, sugar, caramel color, dextrose, palm oil, corn flour, cocoa, high fructose corn , corn , modified corn starch, cocoa, salt, baking soda, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides. Contains: Milk, Soy, Wheat Produced in a facility that processes peanuts, milk, soy, wheat, gluten, egg, and tree nut ingredients. P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Box Contains ------------ 1 x 28g Freeze Dried Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwich See more ( javascript:void(0) )