Pemmican Donated by De danske Vin- & Konservesfabriker (Danish Wine and Preserves Factories). When mixed with hot water, 80 grams was enough to feed a man for a day.
Chocolate Donated by Freia Chokoladefabrik. During the expedition’s time on the ice, this was made into a drink using one third of a slab to 400 grams of hot water and supplemented with Molico dried milk tablets provided by De Norske Melkefabrikker. “Chocolate then became a drink for the gods,” wrote Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen 📜.
After the expedition’s return, Freia marketed the chocolate they had supplied it with by naming it after the most northerly point reached. Source: Under Dusken, no. 10, 1926, published by Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem (Trondheim Student Society) / National Library of Norway.
Oatmeal biscuits From Sætre biscuit factory in Oslo and specially made for the expedition. These were supplemented in Kings Bay by two boxfuls made by Esther Klausen.
Malted milk In tablet form from Horlicks, USA.
Pemmican. Photo from the film “Roald Amundsen – Lincoln Ellsworth’s flyveekspedisjon 1925”, National LIbrary of Norway.
This tin of Horlick’s Malted Milk tablets was found in Amundsen’s home in 2019.
Photo: Follo museum, MiA.
The daily ration per man during the expedition was planned to be: Pemmican 400 grams Chocolate 2 slabs of 125 grams Biscuits 125 grams (12 biscuits) Molico dried milk powder 100 grams Malted milk 125 grams
During the expedition’s time on the ice, rations had to be reduced. Both breakfast and supper consisted of a cup of chocolate and three oat biscuits. Lunch was soup cooked with 80 grams of pemmican.
Sources: Amundsen, Roald, and others: Our Polar flight : the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar flight, 1925 📜. Roald Amundsen’s equipment list for the polar flight : a note from the expedition diary [In Norwegian] 📜.