US Army brings out 'Add urine and eat' rations. Yum

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US military cooks up 'add urine and eat' rations

United States food technologists have invented dried rations that a soldier can rehydrate by using dirty water or even his own urine, the British weekly New Scientist reports.

The ration is surrounded by a plastic membrane made of a nanofibre that, according to its inventors, can filter out 99.9 per cent of microbes and the most harmful toxic compounds, allowing only clean water to get to the preserved food.

So far, only one prototype - chicken and rice - has been tested, but the menu will be expanded to incorporate other favourites if the concept proves popular.

The inventors are the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier Systems Centre in Natick, Massachusetts.

More:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1159190.htm

 

[MikeL]

Yea you're a about 5 years too late on the posting of that article. An AFAIK those rations haven't made it past the trial stage. All the American MREs I had on tour were the standard kind an the Americans I know are still eating the regular MREs aswell.

 

[Armymedic]

They have found forward osmosis water purification systems work well on their own, and to combine them with MRE's, or redesign MRE's, a waste of effort.

Might as well do pure water for drinking and the soldier can eat warm and wet food without being thirsty.

 

[PMedMoe]

Yea you're a about 5 years too late on the posting of that article.

Yep.  Date on article:

Last Update: Thursday, July 22, 2004. 11:02am