SWEDEN – Arla has produced little green pieces of chocolate to supply astronauts with the protein they need during space travel.

Arla has produced the chocolate, in collaboration with the Danish chocolate manufacturer Toms, for NASA’s Food Technology Commercial Space Center in the USA.

One pack of the product will provide the equivalent nutrients to a glass of milk. The bar was originally the same size as a Mars bar.

“When you bit into it, there were crumbs, which aren’t desirable in a weightless environment”, said Carsten Hallund Slot, project manager for Arla Foods. “Therefore, we’ve divided the chocolate bar up into seven small pieces in each pack.

Toms asked what colour we wanted the pieces to be and we chose green to match the Arla Foods’ logo. And we all know that creatures from Mars are green.”