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By codemonkey uk (Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:03:40 PM EST) (all tags)

If you had to survive on only one foodstuff for the rest of your life, what would it be? By "foodstuff" I mean a single natural product, so, for example "carrots" or "pork" would be allowed, but "surf'n'turf" or "cake" would not, since they are made by combining things to make something else. Basically, if it is made by combing ingredients it's not allowed.

Note: This question is more about what you could survive on without too many negative health consequences than what you love the taste of and would rather die than never eat again.

An ample supply of drinking water is assumed.

This diary was inspired by my youngest son's obsession carrots, and also a girl on a TV documentary about eating disorders who "only ate chocolate" (but somehow didn't get ill because off it).

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WIPO: wild barley by georgeha (4.00 / 3) #1 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:22:58 PM EST

that got wet, sprouted a little, dried in a drought, then got battered by a hailstorm, then a big rain came and it all flowed into a small pond.

Apples! by priestess (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:24:46 PM EST

There's loads of vitamins and stuff in fruit, plus you can add the drinking water and make cyder! So you get food AND booze.

If there is such a food which will suffice nutritionally, I'd guess at a fruit. Something that's evolved to be eaten.

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There can be only one: by joh3n (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:38:04 PM EST

bacon.

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I just ate about 7 pounds of meat
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bacon is not natural by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #4 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:42:42 PM EST

now if a pig died on a dried salt lake...

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bacon is nature's candy by joh3n (4.00 / 1) #5 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:48:39 PM EST

it is perfect food. There are no other foods before it.

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I just ate about 7 pounds of meat
-theantix
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Allahu acbar by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 2) #18 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:57:08 PM EST

Bacon salad in mah belly.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: bacon salad can be perfect by joh3n (4.00 / 2) #34 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 08:12:11 PM EST

when you remove the salad
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in my hand or can or pie by gzt (4.00 / 2) #24 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:11:01 PM EST

Millions of bacons. Bacons for me. Millions of bacons. Bacons for free.

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Salmon by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #6 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:52:31 PM EST

And grass or some other leafy green.

My mother, when she was a child, ate so many carrots that she was taken to the hospital because her parents thought she had jaundice.
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Khanyou

Spirulina!! by me0w (4.00 / 1) #7 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:54:18 PM EST

"There's really only one sexually related thing I'm good at: Producing incredibly volumous amounts of spooge on a regular basis." - ni

: I think spirulina needs to be processed by chuckles (2.00 / 0) #31 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 07:52:29 PM EST

in a centrifuge to remove the RNA. If it were consumed without processing, metabolizing the RNA would produce uric acid and could result in gout or kidney stones.
Skateboarding is a crime.

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Carrots? by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #8 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 01:55:38 PM EST

Be careful...he might turn orange!
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A freshwater fish . . . by slozo (3.00 / 1) #9 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:02:02 PM EST

. . . probably catfish or eel, maybe salmon.

Can we prepare and harvest it as we wish? by ambrosen (4.00 / 2) #10 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:02:39 PM EST

Because if we can, then soya's the clear winner. Even having the choice of unripe and ripe beans is enough, but with tofu, tamari, miso, soymilk, tempeh and edamame, I think I'd cope OK.

I believe by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #11 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:04:18 PM EST

There are eight essential amino acid that cannot be synthesized by the body.

While they can all be obtained from one plant or other, I don't think there's any one plant that can supply them all.

So, I think it has to be some kind of animal product. Milk is probably the best bet, followed by eggs and then meat. Milk has carbs, protein and vitamin C so I think it could keep you alive indefinitely.
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Meat fails by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #13 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:33:15 PM EST

Very little in the way of vitamins in meat. It'll be fine until the scurvy sets in. Milk and eggs, on the other hand, are made to be a complete diet for an infant at least.

In truth, I don't think any single natural foodstuff is adequate.
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Depends by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #17 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:53:40 PM EST

There is vitamin C in raw meat, particularly liver. It's mostly but not entirely destroyed by cooking.
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"Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days."-Bertrand Russell
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No Beta Carotene, though (nt) by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #26 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 05:45:53 PM EST

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: I thought that was just a Vitamin A precursor by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #39 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 01:43:24 AM EST

Liver's got loads of Vitamin A already.
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"Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days."-Bertrand Russell
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Hrmf. by blixco (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:09:29 PM EST

Grass fed beef.

Has everything you need to live, assuming you want your life to be short and painful.
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: I love you and I want to eat your beef. by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #28 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 06:49:30 PM EST

Mmmmm... Tasty, tasty dead animals...
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Khanyou
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Cabbage is probably your best bet by theboz (2.00 / 0) #14 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 02:41:47 PM EST

It still doesn't have everything your body needs, but you'll live long enough to have to bury the corpses of the bacon-only crowd. Fortunately for my laziness, I'd prefer the bacon.
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I'd guess soy. by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:06:35 PM EST

Good luck with that.

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Sugar. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #16 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:53:23 PM EST

It's all you really, really need. Well, actually, no matter what you chose as your One Food Til Death, it would end up being your One Food Til Death, whether you lived for 40 years or 40 minutes.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.

Maybe honey by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #19 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 03:59:35 PM EST

you'd even got some protein, if there were bee parts in it.

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That'd work. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #20 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:00:31 PM EST

Mmmmm, crunchy bee bits...

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Some kind of insect based diet by codemonkey uk (2.00 / 0) #21 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:02:32 PM EST

Would probably be a very good bet. If you can get over the ick factor.

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developer of ... ?
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or shrimp by georgeha (2.00 / 0) #22 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:07:09 PM EST

no ick factor there.

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: if i tried that by LilFlightTest (4.00 / 1) #27 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 06:31:13 PM EST

my "til death" wouldn't be too long.
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you need salt by webwench (4.00 / 1) #23 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:08:46 PM EST

so... jerky? :)

^{Getting more attention than you since 1998. Ya ya!}

Yams. /nt by ni (4.00 / 1) #25 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 04:56:33 PM EST

"These days it seems like sometimes dreams of Italian hyper-gonadism are all a man's got to keep him going." -- CRwM

STARVING!!! by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #30 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 06:56:29 PM EST

No, that's a uhhhh... A birth mark! That's it!
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There is no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Khanyou
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I have no idea what you're talking about. by ni (2.00 / 0) #36 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:12:20 PM EST

But am genuinely pretty confident that yams are the best non-animal candidate. Among animal products I am less knowledgable.

"These days it seems like sometimes dreams of Italian hyper-gonadism are all a man's got to keep him going." -- CRwM
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: Check with ana or toxic. by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #42 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 01:55:30 PM EST

They'll know. I can't find the link at the moment -- Oh wait. Here it is!
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There is no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Khanyou
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Not that I have knowledge by R343L (2.00 / 0) #37 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:43:25 PM EST

But this sounds like a decent candidate. Also: incredibly, utterly yummerlicious.

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
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Cheese of course! by nebbish (4.00 / 3) #29 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 06:54:29 PM EST

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Eggs. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #32 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 07:56:01 PM EST

You'd probably live longest on eggs before you died of various vitamin deficiencies.

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Horse Blood. by Tonatiuh (2.00 / 0) #33 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 07:59:29 PM EST

Some tribesmen in Mongolia eat that exclusively I think.

Lots of iron and minerals, protein, fluid.

You can't beat it.

potato by misslake (4.00 / 2) #35 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 09:23:31 PM EST

i remember learing about that very question at uni.

potatos are the most nearly nutritionally complete and filling foodstuff. they are easy to grow, harvest and prepare.
they are also very efficent plants, with a household being able to produce themselves sufficent food in an average canadian back yard.

you can live for a very very long while eating nothing but potatoes. they contain both vitamin c and enough protein, if you consume your 2000 calories of plain potatoes.

alas, i don't remember all the various facts and references about it anymore, since i learned it in my vegetable production class. it was a great class, but it was at 8:30 in the morning, in a very comfy small lecture theatre on the top floor of one of the oldest buildings on campus. it had large east facing windows, the morning sun streamed in and warmed the desks and chairs. our professor had a beautiful deep contralto voice, and spoke quietly yet clearly with a remarkably even tone. consequently, it was nearly impossible to stay awake.

besides, it's the international year of the potato.

http://www.potato2008.org/

: I forgot about potatoes! by R343L (4.00 / 1) #38 Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 11:44:58 PM EST

I remember hearing the same thing, only likely from a less credible source.
I also had potato-cheddar pirogies today. They were quite tasty (also incredibly too many of them though I ate them all).

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
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: That is cruel by Breaker (4.00 / 2) #41 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:04:40 AM EST

You have potatoes, but no oil to fry them in!

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Bananas by bobdole (2.00 / 0) #40 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 05:58:37 AM EST

Oh yes. Or possibly bacon, but I guess bacon in all its grandness can be a bit too much if "the rest of my life" turns out be of "normal" length.
-- The revolution will not be televised.

Blue Green Algae by muchagecko (2.00 / 0) #43 Sat Jul 26, 2008 at 01:32:17 PM EST

It's good stuff.

"It's the abstract I deal in; software, and donuts." MohammedNiyalSayeed

NOOOOOOOOO!!! It's made of people! by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #44 Mon Jul 28, 2008 at 04:02:08 PM EST

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There is no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Khanyou
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: OMG! by muchagecko (4.00 / 1) #45 Mon Jul 28, 2008 at 06:28:14 PM EST

I didn't know

"It's the abstract I deal in; software, and donuts." MohammedNiyalSayeed
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Ultimate Superfood | 45 comments (45 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

-	Wheat	6%
-	Rice	26%
-	Maize	0%
-	Potato	33%
-	Banana	13%
-	Beans	6%
-	Meat	6%
-	Milk	0%
-	Chocolate	6%


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