Universal food for humans - Possible?

Hey Everyone,

I know lots of people have pets and some of them live off the same kind of food day in and out. It got me thinking, is it possible to make a single kind of edible 'food stuff' or more generally 'matter' (if it's really that awfull ) which humans could just eat and live healthy from?

It would probably be some kind of composite which has all the basic nutrients crammed into a single blended bar, pellet or something? It would probably taste awful, but might be survivable on.

 

Rice+tofu+vitamin pill=most everything you need right there.

Vitamins and minerals aren't absorbed as well if you take a vitamin pill versus eating a food that contains the vitamin/mineral though. Still would get some use from it.

 

I don't know if it's possible but it'd certainly be boring. haha

 

Unless there's a nessecity such as ration, famine or poverty then I'm going to eat the best, most varied food I can on my budget.

I'm begining to develop a distrust of fussy eaters in my old age.
That being said, Sprouts = Devil's Testicles.

 

I never actually bothered to check if it's true, but keep hearing about bananas containing enough of everything, so you could survive on them alone (plus some extra water, obviously).

If you insist on it being dry stuff: get some of those dried banana chips. That way, you also get the "awful taste" attribute as a free bonus.

 

Sort of like "Bachelor Chow" or "Soylent Green"?

Will we one day be fed bars of generic "food" like dry cat food, with enough nutrients to keep us working?

If that day comes, it's gonna suck ass.

 

XerdoPwerko: since you mentioned Soylent Green, then I can tell you this. the film is based on a novel (Make Room Make Room) by one of my favourite writers, who is named Harry Harrison, and yeah eating Soylent Green would for me, be extremely scary. Cause Soylent Green is People !

 

Just ask some Astronauts/Cosmonauts about that question

 

I admit it's shameful that I haven't ever seen the movie, and you aren't the first person to spoil its punchline, but did you really need to anyway?

 

Is it still worth seeing even knowing that?

 

Your body needs to eat food, not vitamins to be healthy (even though not just to live). Google around why processed foods are awful for you.

 

That's only cause most people boil them to death so they taste bitter and nasty, you need small fresh sprouts with the base sliced into a cross and then steamed for about 6 to 12 minutes until they are a delightfuly cooked with a slight bite to it.

 

Well, if you were a fan of the TV series Millennium, then the punchline would have been pointed out numerous times.

 

Aw, come on, it's been spoiled for 40 years already. It's like getting mad because I say that Aeris dies or that Kristin Sheppard shot J.R., or Maggie shot Mr. Burns for that matter.

But the part of Soylent Green I was talking about is not the fact that it's people, but the fact that it was some sort of generic foodstuff that the whole population had.

Now, I've imagined that maybe those places in Mexico, China, and other third world countries where electronics are assembled (We call them "Maquiladoras") and the workers are exploited almost to death, would probably get "Employee Chow" and have dispensers throw little bars of food at workers to keep them working. Not eating on tme would probably be a deadly offence.

That'd be scary as fuck.

 

XerdoPwerko: Alchy is just being a little baby with that uttering about "me" spoiling the plotline. But anyway it is still scary as fuck none the less. The stuff you talk about.

 

rice, beans and tortillas!

 

If I could live say on £1/day off a bar of food, I'd do it. Eating takes time and is expensive, I'd rather do without it.

 

I was thinking the very same, as long as we don´t have to eat popplers xD