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This link between stress and vinegar may help explain why astronauts like to eat certain foods in microgravity that they don't normally enjoy on Earth, Newman said.

For the U.S. to do better, decreasing corporate influence and eliminating mandatory foods might be a way to cut down on plate waste.

Included in the lists of items to be kept at home are long-life foods such as tins of beans, energy bars and pasta, and medicines including iodine tablets in case of a nuclear accident.

They include pervasive chronic disease, poor nutrition and the ubiquity of processed foods containing artificial chemicals.

“We have needs for fuel, foods and medicines, there was a delivery coming from Tyre that had to turn around,” says Father al-Ameel.