Could humans create food pellets containing all needed nutrition similar to what we feed pets?

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Could humans create food pellets containing all needed nutrition similar to what we feed pets?

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short answer: we’ve tried, its a little more complex than that….and people just plain like regular food.

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I’m told the Americans in the cold war were able to create a syrup like food that was both sufficiently full of calories and had the correct mix of vitamins etc to sustain humans for at least a few weeks, but they had to literally lock up the test subjects to confirm this, because (as the account i read put it) “one open window, and it was ‘hello *Cheeseburger*!” “