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Wow. Whether you pasted LLM content or your own, so much is wrong about what you said (in such a confident tone), including logical, English usage, and scien

Wow. Whether you pasted LLM content or your own, so much is wrong about what you said (in such a confident tone), including logical, English usage, and scientific / factual errors, that I do not want to argue more, except to leave you with this link to peruse, and another sentence or two below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957679 That link was of a reply by me to another comment(er) in this same overall thread. Make sure to see my own reply to my own comment, at the link below the link given, and in particular, the Wikipedia links given there, about the nutritional value of various food items discussed here. Now, that sentence or two that I mentioned above: Factual error: near the top of your comment, you say that wheat has about twice the protein of corn (maize). Wheat actually has more than three times the protein of maize - as a ratio. It also has a lot of other nutritional value. See the relevant Wikipedia articles that I linked. And in an absolute sense, it makes even more of a difference, because maize is below 3.5 grams, and wheat is above 12.5 grams in protein. So wheat has 9 grams more protein per 100 grams, than corn / maize. That makes a hell of a lot of difference to poor people, or others, who cannot afford or do not want to eat meat, for religious, cultural, ethical or other reasons. And there are an increasing number of people in the west or in "developed" countries who are becoming vegetarian for ethical or climate reasons. The founder of Y Combinator, and of this site, Hacker News, Paul Graham, also became vegetarian some time ago. When asked why, by someone, he replied, "I was grossed out by factory farming". See his reply here, 17 years ago, via this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=pg%20grossed%20out%20factory%20farming&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=58051 "It wasn't a deliberate choice. I just got grossed out by factory farming." Factual error, or almost: in your last paragraph, you say that corn is an excellent source of energy. Much less than wheat: Corn / maize: less than 17 grams carbs per 100 grams. Wheat: more than 71 grams carbs per 100 grams. Again, see the same relevant, linked, Wikipedia articles about maize and wheat for proof. My calculator tells me that 71/17 is over 4x. Fat content in both is so low as to not matter. And carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram, while fats have 9 calories per gram. So should we all just eat fats only, for energy? Of course not. There is much more to nutrition than just energy or protein or fat or whatever.

adrian_b 2y ago
> Factual error: near the top of your comment, you say that wheat has about twice the protein of corn (maize). > Wheat actually has more than three times the protein of maize No factual error here. The wheat flour from which I make bread has 13% proteins, while the cornflour that I use has 6.4% proteins. It is likely that unlike me, you do not cook your own food, which is why you are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. The protein content in other parts of plants does not matter. Only the content in the products that you can buy and use for cooking matters. The 6.4% protein content for cornflour is pretty much the same in all brands of cornflour that I have seen in Europe. The wheat flour that I use is the one with the highest protein content. Most other brands have a lower protein content, down to 10% of protein. > Corn / maize: less than 17 grams carbs per 100 grams This must be a hallucination. Cornflour almost always has around 75 grams of starch per 100 grams. Wheat flour has a slightly lower starch content, the value written by you, 71 g per 100 g is indeed correct and typical. The energy content of the cornflour I use is 3410 kcal/100 g and of the wheat flour is 3530 kcal/100 g. Nevertheless, the slightly higher value for wheat flour is misleading, because the gluten is never digested completely and even for the part of the gluten that is digested, the body spends more energy for amino-acid processing than for starch processing, so the net energy intake is actually slightly lower for wheat flour. It is possible to eat only fat for energy. It is also possible to eat only carbohydrates for energy. This does not mean that the extremes are the best choices. So you should better check your facts, because the values are so far from correct as to qualify for "hallucinations" (i.e. "more than three times" vs. 13/6.4 and 17 g vs. 75 g).
- fuzztester 2y ago
  Faaakkkk. >It is likely that unlike me, you do not cook your own food, which is why you are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Such a pompous, uninformed, creepy, incredibly illogical and retarded statement you made, to say that, because a person does not cook their own food, they are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Going that same "logic" implies that many people in your friends circle, your relatives, your village or city, your country, and the whole world, are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Because a lot of people worldwide, do not cook, you know. Maybe due to being too busy, having others who can do it for them, being partially disabled, or being enough well-off that they do not need to cook, sometimes, or ever. But they have the ability to read ingredient information on packages. Is that not blindingly of obvious to you? And further, I do know how to cook, and do cook my own food - sometimes, not always, because I am in that well-off category above. So I don't need to cook all the time. And I enjoy doing it.

adrian_b 2y ago

> Factual error: near the top of your comment, you say that wheat has about twice the protein of corn (maize). > Wheat actually has more than three times the protein of maize No factual error here. The wheat flour from which I make bread has 13% proteins, while the cornflour that I use has 6.4% proteins. It is likely that unlike me, you do not cook your own food, which is why you are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. The protein content in other parts of plants does not matter. Only the content in the products that you can buy and use for cooking matters. The 6.4% protein content for cornflour is pretty much the same in all brands of cornflour that I have seen in Europe. The wheat flour that I use is the one with the highest protein content. Most other brands have a lower protein content, down to 10% of protein. > Corn / maize: less than 17 grams carbs per 100 grams This must be a hallucination. Cornflour almost always has around 75 grams of starch per 100 grams. Wheat flour has a slightly lower starch content, the value written by you, 71 g per 100 g is indeed correct and typical. The energy content of the cornflour I use is 3410 kcal/100 g and of the wheat flour is 3530 kcal/100 g. Nevertheless, the slightly higher value for wheat flour is misleading, because the gluten is never digested completely and even for the part of the gluten that is digested, the body spends more energy for amino-acid processing than for starch processing, so the net energy intake is actually slightly lower for wheat flour. It is possible to eat only fat for energy. It is also possible to eat only carbohydrates for energy. This does not mean that the extremes are the best choices. So you should better check your facts, because the values are so far from correct as to qualify for "hallucinations" (i.e. "more than three times" vs. 13/6.4 and 17 g vs. 75 g).

fuzztester 2y ago
Faaakkkk. >It is likely that unlike me, you do not cook your own food, which is why you are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Such a pompous, uninformed, creepy, incredibly illogical and retarded statement you made, to say that, because a person does not cook their own food, they are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Going that same "logic" implies that many people in your friends circle, your relatives, your village or city, your country, and the whole world, are not aware about the content of nutrients in food ingredients. Because a lot of people worldwide, do not cook, you know. Maybe due to being too busy, having others who can do it for them, being partially disabled, or being enough well-off that they do not need to cook, sometimes, or ever. But they have the ability to read ingredient information on packages. Is that not blindingly of obvious to you? And further, I do know how to cook, and do cook my own food - sometimes, not always, because I am in that well-off category above. So I don't need to cook all the time. And I enjoy doing it.