The Incredible Edible Green Goo

In the world of Athena Minerva, in the 26th century, although womankind's technology can perform many wonders like passing spaceships through warped space and "flipping out" to other nearby dimensions, there are still an infinite variety of enzymes and microbial creatures to study, or create, - or find.
However, space ships do tend to get designed with an eye on efficiency and a blind eye to diversity. The invention of nanobot smart-material sometimes leads ship achitects to try to solve every problem with smart-material. A notable exception is food. Every ship with biological crewmembers needs the materials to generate plant life or something edible. But otherwise, many systems that could benefit from a liberal application of chemistry might substitute programmed nanobots as they are able to replicate themselves after they have collected common space dust or minerals as raw materials.
One space-warping ship, captained by an accomplished deaf woman, finds a planet whose plant life exudes a tremendously useful green goo, which the native human-like population (now long since dead) preserved in clay pots. The three crewmen sent to explore the world translate the mosaics, hieoglyphs, and documents of the ancient civilization and perform their own scientific measurements and analyses and find three very valuable properties.

1. The yogurt-like green goo, though rather viscous and sticky, is surprisingly very low in friction, leaving a very thin slime trail.
2. Also the green goo is an excellent heat insulator. It can be coated onto an atmospheric shuttle to greatly reduce friction drag and also shield against heat, which allows the shuttle to attain much higher speeds more safely than just using nanobot material.
3. Also, the green goo is very tasty and nutritious when spread on a bagel. Although it provides little additional nutrition, its enzyme properties aid in the digestion of humans and other mammals.

Its amazing how useful the plant-derived enzyme can be.