Military Developing Pizza That Lasts for Three Years
Rations soldiers have been begging for
They call it the holy grail of ready-to-eat meals for soldiers — a pizza that can stay on the shelf for up to three years and still remain good to eat.
Soldiers have been asking for pizza since lightweight individual field rations — known as meals ready to eat, or MREs — replaced canned food in 1981 for soldiers in combat zones or areas where field kitchens cannot be set up.
Researchers at a U.S. military lab in Massachusetts are closing in on a recipe that doesn't require any refrigeration or freezing.
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Inventing such type of recipe which can stay for such a long time is really difficult but if made then it will definitely solve soldiers food crises.