Could humans create food pellets containing all needed nutrition similar to what we feed pets?
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It isn’t a pellet but there is a food called Unimix known as ‘famine chow’. It is a blend of corn flour, soybeans, oil, milk powder, sugar, and vitamins and minerals. Mix with local water to feed to malnourished people as a porridge or it can be used to bake breads.
Based on the nutrition info on wiki, you might be just as good to eat Total cereal and you can bake that into cookies.
Human taste buds. Dogs can eat the same shit everyday cuz they have far fewer taste buds. Humans need flavor and variety and everything else. A pill works in theory, not practice.
The “food pellets” that people feed their pets are the nutritional equivalent of a human eating fast food every day. It’ll sustain you, but it’s not exactly “healthy”.
I wonder what “slop” is in the Big Brother (TV Reality game show) house.
Apparently, groups of people live off that for (sometimes many) weeks at a time.
What, like kibble/dry food? Sure, it wouldn’t be hard at all. But I suspect there aren’t many people who would regard living on such a monotonous diet as a desirable existence.
I wonder what “slop” is in the Big Brother (TV Reality game show) house.
Apparently, groups of people live off that for (sometimes many) weeks at a time.
People are trying this but it has a number of problems. First, we enjoy eating food. Our brains literally give us a big endorphin rush when we eat tasty food. Why are we trying to deprive ourselves of that? Second, our digestive systems are not designed for that. They are designed to take nutrients from food. This is the issue with fortified foods and vitamin supplements. There is too much in them to be absorbed by our bodies.
What, like kibble/dry food? Sure, it wouldn’t be hard at all. But I suspect there aren’t many people who would regard living on such a monotonous diet as a desirable existence.
People are trying this but it has a number of problems. First, we enjoy eating food. Our brains literally give us a big endorphin rush when we eat tasty food. Why are we trying to deprive ourselves of that? Second, our digestive systems are not designed for that. They are designed to take nutrients from food. This is the issue with fortified foods and vitamin supplements. There is too much in them to be absorbed by our bodies.
What, like kibble/dry food? Sure, it wouldn’t be hard at all. But I suspect there aren’t many people who would regard living on such a monotonous diet as a desirable existence.
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