Questions tagged [food]
For questions about sources and types of nutrition for a living organism.
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Could alien species with blood based on different elements eat the same food?
In my Science Fantasy galaxy, I have several humanoid alien species with blood based on different elements, including iron (essentially human blood), copper (like Vulcans from Star Trek with green ...
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How to feed interplanetary humanity?
2175: humanity has expanded to the other planets, has found the ninth planet by observing slight gravitational disturbances from one direction (it turns out to have many habitable-ish moons that, if ...
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What species would make good flying livestock?
Domesticated magpies will carefully watch over these flying livestock like smarter, louder, sheepdogs, driving away would be predators (along with the help of a much smaller number of domesticated ...
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Can Seals Eat Sushi?
In a story I'm writing at one point a kid's sitting on the docks and feeding the Seals sushi, and I'm wandering if that's actually possible, and what kinds of sushi they can actually eat or if it ...
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Feasibility of cold-blooded Livestock
The research I have done recently (searching through Wikipedia) has yielded that generally cold-blooded animals (Ectotherms) are able to survive on less food that their warm-blooded counterparts, and ...
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Edible Dinosaur meat
What would it take to have edible non-therapod dinosaur meat in a world where humans and dinosaurs have coexist since human civilization? Or would the human body or creativity find a way to eat ...
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How to make animal husbandry the only agriculture possible
This world is inhabited by carnivorous humans, how they came to be remains a mystery. The geography is typical of a post-glacial world (fjords, lots of lakes, valley steppes, all that good stuff) and ...
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Would the diet described below sustain a human?
In my world I need to feed a colony of Kobolds. I'm modeling my Kobolds' dietary requirements on humans. My question is whether or not the following foodstuffs would meet the dietary needs of human ...
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How to feed a vampire blood spontaneously
Suppose a common situation with a vampire occurs. They're short of blood, you want to save them, you need to deliver a moderate amount of blood to them to revive them but you don't want to be ...
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What could be the base source of sustenance in the underworld?
On the surface of the world the sun is the source of energy for plants and the foo chain goes up from that. How could a similar base for a food chain be established in the large world below?
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How would researchers on an alien planet be able to support their dietary requirements?
A group of scientists travels to a newly discovered planet shown to support life in the form of plants and animals. Obviously they can only bring so much food with them so at some point they would ...
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Which animals do nocturnal humans prefer as livestock? [closed]
Imagine humans as predominantly nocturnal, save the occasional day lark. They have eyes like strepsirrhine primates that grant improved low-light vision but inferior day-vision. For the purposes of ...
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Is it safe to cook and drink human blood? [duplicate]
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A culture I've been working on has...interesting views on medicine. They divide the physical body into 6 parts, one of them being blood. Long story short, ...
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Insectoids and the concept of 'eating well' [closed]
In this project of mine a species of sapient, spacefaring insectoids exists among humans and humanoid species. The insectoids are puzzled by something in humanoid cultures- specifically the idea of ...
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How to eat raw chicken without getting salmonellosis? [closed]
I imagined a French professional chef named Simon Charles. His favourite meat: chicken.
One day, he invents a new revolutionary recipe: chicken tartare.
So, I wonder how to eat raw chicken without ...
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