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Most likely not, but it is wrong to expect to get all the nutrients from a single food source. Some nutrients are required in much greater quantities than the o
by adrian_b 2y ago
Most likely not, but it is wrong to expect to get all the nutrients from a single food source. Some nutrients are required in much greater quantities than the others, so after obtaining them it becomes much easier to obtain the rest of the nutrients. Food should be cooked by mixing many ingredients, with each providing only some of what is needed.
For example you can satisfy your energy needs with some starchy seeds, e.g. maize or rice and with some fat source, for instance olive oil. This would represent the bulk of the dry mass of food needed daily. Such food ingredients do not have to provide anything else but energy (i.e. mostly glucose and oleic acid). If they also provide other nutrients, that is just a bonus.
The daily needs of protein could be satisfied e.g. with up to 100 grams of high-quality protein (like whey protein or egg-white protein) produced by a culture of a genetically-modified fungus (such genetically-modified strains of the Trichoderma fungus already exist). That fungus culture does not need to produce anything else but protein.
With the previous food ingredients providing the nutrients required in large quantities, the rest of the food ingredients used for cooking (e.g. various vegetables or various animal products, if one prefers those) could be chosen only for improving the taste and for providing the small amounts of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals that are needed.