This reminds me of the debate around Soylent when that came out. Are meals for enjoyment, flavour, and the experience or are they about consuming nutrients and

This reminds me of the debate around Soylent when that came out. Are meals for enjoyment, flavour, and the experience or are they about consuming nutrients and providing energy? I’d say that debate was largely philosophical with proponents on both sides. And really the answer might be that both things are true for different people at different times. Though I also observe that soylent did not, by and large, end up replacing meals for the vast majority.