Russian space food on sale in Moscow. Photo: Nasa/Collectspace.com

Move over astronaut ice cream, Russian space food tubes have arrived.

As of Friday February 6, the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow now sells authentic cosmonaut food to the public, the state-run Sputnik news service reported.

The centre, a sprawling trade show also known by the Russian acronym VDNKh, is marketing the cosmic cuisine in toothpaste-like tubes.

"Visitors [to VDNKh] will have a chance to try a full-course cosmonaut menu, including four kinds of soups, various meat dishes and a variety of desserts," the Sputnik report said.

"According to organisers, there will be 11 variations of tubes, each tasting like a different kind of food."

The selection, according to the Russian website Menu.ru, include marinated lamb and pork with vegetables, cottage cheese dessert with sea buckthorn fruit, and apricot, apple and blackcurrant puree.

The tubes, which are offered through a vending machine, cost 300 rubles, or about (US)$4.50, each.

They are produced by the same factory and using the same methods as the food that is prepared for the Russian cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station.

"Producers do not use any genetically-modified products and assure that the food in the tubes is made from natural ingredients only," the news service noted.

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Russian space food on sale in Moscow