In this case, MORE is the Modular Operational Ration Enhancement, developed by the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center's Combat Feeding Directorate as a direct result of requests from deployed warfighters.
"We received feedback from the field that some warfighters were losing weight and they needed extra calories," said Julie Smith, a Combat Feeding Directorate, or CFD, senior food technologist.
Smith, along with Jim Lecollier, chief of the Individual Rations Branch, Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, worked with their respective teams from 2008 through 2013 to develop the MORE family of ration supplements specifically to meet this need.
MORE provides additional nutrition to warfighters operating in high-stress environments when their caloric requirements exceed those provided by their daily operational rations. MOREs are designed to augment the Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or MRE, First Strike Ration, or FSR, and Meal, Cold Weather/Long Range Patrol, as well as the family of Unitized Group Rations.
The MRE satisfies the Army surgeon general's strict requirements for nutrition in operational rations. Each MRE provides approximately 1,300 calories. An FSR, which replaces three MREs, has an average of 2,900 calories per ration. The MORE has an average of 1,110 calories per package.
http://www.army.mil/article/121561/MORE_is_better_when_it_comes_to_food_rations/
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