Could you eat 1 bite of food?

[stinki malinki]

If someone invented a type of food that has all your calories and vitamins and nutrients for a whole day but it is just a small bite of food. It weighs like 15-20g. And that is your food for the whole day. Would it be possible to live on that food and you would just get used to eating small portions? Or you would just die from starvation?

[Zero, Dark Knight]

How could you die of starvation if it has everything you need?
Of course you'd live off it. logic, this is worse than that time the guy said potato chips ain't made out of potato.

[MinionJoe]

"Meal pills" were an idea in the 50s. They don't work because a stomach needs volume in order to feel full and a pill wouldn't do it.

Heck, I can't even take a multi-vitamin on an empty stomach without it burning a hole in my gut.

[stinki malinki]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

"Meal pills" were an idea in the 50s. They don't work because a stomach needs volume in order to feel full and a pill wouldn't do it.

Heck, I can't even take a multi-vitamin on an empty stomach without it burning a hole in my gut.

Okay thanks that answered my question.

Originally posted by Zero, Dark Knight:

How could you die of starvation if it has everything you need?
Of course you'd live off it. logic, this is worse than that time the guy said potato chips ain't made out of potato.

blow raspberry

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by Rupika:

Okay thanks that answered my question.

This was a pretty good article on them I just found:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120221-food-pills-a-staple-of-sci-fi

Bottom line is a pill just cannot contain enough caloric content to sustain a person. Sure, you can get all the vitamins and minerals you'd need, but not the energy to keep going.

If you're looking for something nutritious and energy dense, I'd recommend pemmican.

https://adventurecreation.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/the-nutritional-value-of-pemmican/

It is arguably the only food that humans can healthfully exist explicitly off of. Large numbers of people have subsisted explicitly off of Pemmican for long periods of time.

[River]

I would like it, I hate eating.

[stinki malinki]

Yeah that's what I mean though. It needs to be something like that pill but inside a big chunk of calories. What would pure calories even look like? I don't think you can see them, it's just energy...

@MinionJoe

[Zero, Dark Knight]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

Bottom line is a pill just cannot contain enough caloric content to sustain a person. Sure, you can get all the vitamins and minerals you'd need, but not the energy to keep going.

but he said if 'someone invented'... he's talking about a hypothetical situation, not tech and medical expertise from 1950s.

[Electric Cupcake]

I wonder if that kind of energy density could be weaponized.

[stinki malinki]

Yes, I'm talking about a bite of food like say a cube of cake. And that cake has all your vitamins and minerals and 2000 calories. But it is only 1 square inch.

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Rupika:

Yeah that's what I mean though. It needs to be something like that pill but inside a big chunk of calories. What would pure calories even look like? I don't think you can see them, it's just energy...

@MinionJoe

A calorie is equal to a little over 4 joules or newtons. Although people usually confuse calories and kilocalories when it comes to stuff like food and exercise.

[stinki malinki]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

I wonder if that kind of energy density could be weaponized.

No it can't. The average AA battery has the energy equivalent of around 11000 calories. So a man can shovel 20-30 tons of material a day every day for a week on the same amount of energy found in a single AA battery.

[Zero, Dark Knight]

Originally posted by Rupika:

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

I wonder if that kind of energy density could be weaponized.

No it can't. The average AA battery has the energy equivalent of around 11000 calories. So a man can shovel 20-30 tons of material a day every day for a week on the same amount of energy found in a single AA battery.

What if it's Duracell ?

[stinki malinki]

Originally posted by Zero, Dark Knight:

Originally posted by Rupika:

No it can't. The average AA battery has the energy equivalent of around 11000 calories. So a man can shovel 20-30 tons of material a day every day for a week on the same amount of energy found in a single AA battery.

What if it's Duracell ?

Then he gets double pay for working weekends

[MinionJoe]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Originally posted by Rupika:

Yeah that's what I mean though. It needs to be something like that pill but inside a big chunk of calories. What would pure calories even look like? I don't think you can see them, it's just energy...

@MinionJoe

A calorie is equal to a little over 4 joules or newtons. Although people usually confuse calories and kilocalories when it comes to stuff like food and exercise.

Yeah, I went down that rabbit hole just now. It seems that 1 food calorie was pretty much equivalent to 1 kcal of electrical power.

So a 2,000 calorie pill would have the energy equivalent of 8 million joules.

So far as I can tell, that's about a 1/4 barrel of oil.

[Groogo]

There is a chance that some people could manage it. I have been to the point where 1/2 a sandwich on regular sliced sandwich bread was all the I could eat at one time, I would be too full to eat anything else for a few hours. I did consume small portions like that 4 to 5 times per day however. I was at my fighting trim, 6' and right at 200 pounds.