With all of the advancements made on this world, how have we not been able to make zero or low calorie amazingly tasting food like chocolate chip cookies!?!
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The real ELI5:
Science is very complicated. So there are many different types of scientists who study different things. Advances in one field of science often don’t translate to other fields. That’s why we can put men on the moon but can’t do seemingly simple sounding things in other branches. Additionally, things are always more complicated than they sound. It sounds simple to “just create an alternative that taste goods and is healthy” but it’s not.
The real ELI5:
Science is very complicated. So there are many different types of scientists who study different things. Advances in one field of science often don’t translate to other fields. That’s why we can put men on the moon but can’t do seemingly simple sounding things in other branches. Additionally, things are always more complicated than they sound. It sounds simple to “just create an alternative that taste goods and is healthy” but it’s not.
I bet that fats and oils are a really big part of the problem. They are all inherently calorie dense, and the ones that we cant digest lubricate our colon so well that it makes it into a waterslide.
We sort of can, but the substitute sweeteners don’t always taste good to everyone or agree with their system. I’ve been experimenting with a meal replacement product called Soylent and it took a couple weeks for my gut to get used to it. They make bottled shakes and meal bars. For people who have no issues with soy products or allulose sweetener, it’s pretty good.
Mind you, they’re not zero-calorie. That’s not the point. They’re meal replacements, for people who for one reason or another have difficulty eating proper diets. The meal bars are hardly chocolate brownies or cookies, but they taste better than a lot of protein bars I’ve tried, and they’re different from protein bars or protein shakes.
We’re not yet at Star Trek replicator levels of meal composition, where they can manipulate food at the atomic level to make a healthy diet taste like a hot fudge sundae. But we can do a lot more now than we once could to make healthy food that doesn’t taste like a salad.
If I had to guess, it’s because there’s more money in poor choices than in sugarless/low calorie food. Based on prices it’s probably more expensive to produce the low calorie and sugarless foods.
As my college professor liked to say, if there was money to be made curing cancer, the research would have already been completed.
We sort of can, but the substitute sweeteners don’t always taste good to everyone or agree with their system. I’ve been experimenting with a meal replacement product called Soylent and it took a couple weeks for my gut to get used to it. They make bottled shakes and meal bars. For people who have no issues with soy products or allulose sweetener, it’s pretty good.
Mind you, they’re not zero-calorie. That’s not the point. They’re meal replacements, for people who for one reason or another have difficulty eating proper diets. The meal bars are hardly chocolate brownies or cookies, but they taste better than a lot of protein bars I’ve tried, and they’re different from protein bars or protein shakes.
We’re not yet at Star Trek replicator levels of meal composition, where they can manipulate food at the atomic level to make a healthy diet taste like a hot fudge sundae. But we can do a lot more now than we once could to make healthy food that doesn’t taste like a salad.
We sort of can, but the substitute sweeteners don’t always taste good to everyone or agree with their system. I’ve been experimenting with a meal replacement product called Soylent and it took a couple weeks for my gut to get used to it. They make bottled shakes and meal bars. For people who have no issues with soy products or allulose sweetener, it’s pretty good.
Mind you, they’re not zero-calorie. That’s not the point. They’re meal replacements, for people who for one reason or another have difficulty eating proper diets. The meal bars are hardly chocolate brownies or cookies, but they taste better than a lot of protein bars I’ve tried, and they’re different from protein bars or protein shakes.
We’re not yet at Star Trek replicator levels of meal composition, where they can manipulate food at the atomic level to make a healthy diet taste like a hot fudge sundae. But we can do a lot more now than we once could to make healthy food that doesn’t taste like a salad.
If I had to guess, it’s because there’s more money in poor choices than in sugarless/low calorie food. Based on prices it’s probably more expensive to produce the low calorie and sugarless foods.
As my college professor liked to say, if there was money to be made curing cancer, the research would have already been completed.
If I had to guess, it’s because there’s more money in poor choices than in sugarless/low calorie food. Based on prices it’s probably more expensive to produce the low calorie and sugarless foods.
As my college professor liked to say, if there was money to be made curing cancer, the research would have already been completed.
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