Questions tagged [food]
For questions about sources and types of nutrition for a living organism.
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Humanity is gone. What's the timeline of vermin infestation in an abandoned wholesale supermarket club?
Due to an accident during a transdimensional handwavium experiment, every sentient being on Earth was whisked away into another dimension. Humans are gone in a fiat.
Somewhere, during temperate summer,...
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Is it possible for a person to live off a special drink that provides him all required nutrients that his body need?
Due to a unique condition, a man is in a malnourished state where he already lost almost all of his muscles and fat, leaving him barely able to walk around his house before dropping to the ground ...
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How would a person with food allergies cope in the Middle Ages?
In a story I'm working on, a character suddenly finds himself transported back to the late Middle Ages. This is completely unexpected, so he doesn't have time to prepare.
It occurred to me that a lot ...
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Would it be possible for wetlands dwelling population which is pretty isolated (although not completely) to have bread?
My problem is whether they could grow crops to produce it. If not, what could be a substitute for a population, who live on wetlands in central European-like climate during early colonization era (...
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How do Eagle-Men hunt?
The eagle-men are a race of aquiline creatures found in the wilderness. They are flightless and wingless creatures about 4ft in height, with legs like an eagle, a body partway between humanoid and ...
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What can we eat in the late Cretaceous?
Suppose there is a team of explorers sent back in time 66 million years ago somewhere before the K-T event took place, the mission is to spend no more than 3 months to retrieve a blood sample from a ...
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Is human meat sustainable as a food? What else could add to a full diet?
In this story, set sometime in the future, most farm animals have gone extinct due to diseases. I remember reading somewhere that the average human has around 100 thousand calories, meaning that one ...
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What would the main ingredient of a cheap food for the masses be?
We have to feed the masses and we have to do it cheaply.
Enters the goo
Our scientist are still debating what the main ingredient(s) of this thick paste should be.
Can you help them?
The target ...
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Would a vampire be able to use a blood substitute as a food source, such as coconut water? [duplicate]
I have a character in my story who is both a vampire and a practicing Muslim. I have another who is also a vampire and she subsists off menstrual blood. [Nutritious :>] However, I imagine Sam (the ...
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Cooking in a hyperbaric kitchen?
Let's say you're in Atlantis,
which happens to be 1 km below sea level
It's also at equilibrium with the sea. You have been born there and are fully acclimated to the pressure, in air which is made ...
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Would an animal whose diet consisted solely of sugary foods taste sweet?
These animals are nectarivorous in nature, eating sap, nectar, and honey (Though they are not bees, they are vertebrates.), but as they became more intelligent and advanced, they also incorporated ...
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Agriculture on a 15th century era Tidally locked Planet
What would humanity's most reliable method for food look like on a planet where the sun never sets, great winds raged across the land, and large-scale storms were commonplace?
I'm curious if large-...
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Grazing Adaptations in Many-Mouthed Animals
In a world I am designing, most animals have many mouths placed directly in their side. These mouths have two jaws like in sharks, and also have a small pair of palps for manipulating food, which act ...
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Feasibility of a Cannibalistic Army? [closed]
Among humans cannibalism has been practiced as a funerary ritual within numerous cultures across the world, and also as a way of ritualistically degrading defeated enemies, as was done most notably ...
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How long would (dry) food in a glass jar survive in space?
Say you eject a jar of jerky or something through the airlock of your space ship. Does the lid pop right away due to the vacuum? Does the food get so much UV it gives you cancer? (Does that depend on ...
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