/ck/ - Food & Cooking

IIRC there's some research that shows that sweet foods bypass your satiety response, so it is actually easier to eat them when you're full.

I think this is it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4179169/

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>>7114505
According to WolframAlpha, a typical cookie is made out of 67.5% carbohydrate, 5.6% protein and 19.2% fat. A single 15 g cookie has about 68 calories, so to reach 2000 calories you'd have to eat 30 cookies per day. This would provide 87 g of fat (134% of RDA), 305 g of carbohydrates (102% of RDA) but only 25 g of protein (51% of RDA). Thus to get adequate protein you'd have to eat 59 cookies per day for 4035 calories, 171 g of fat (263% of RDA), 600 g of carbohydrates (200% of RDA) and 50 g of protein (100% of RDA).

You would still get a lot of vitamin deficiencies. 59 cookies would provide you with enough iron (143% of RDA), thiamin (139%), folate (111%), riboflavin (106%), niacin (106%) and probably phosphorus (96%), but would be insufficient in magnesium (66%), vitamin E (49%), calcium (39%), zinc (35%), vitamin A (26%), vitamin B6 (25%), vitamin B12 (10%) and especially vitamin C (2%).

You could still survive for at least 3-6 months until you got scurvy from the lack of vitamin C, unless you managed to eat about 3,800 cookies daily. That's about 57 kilograms of cookies (about 4 cookies per minute, 16 hours per day). This would also provide you with 91,000 calories. Unfortunately you would also get moderate-to-severe overdoses of some vitamins and minerals, namely hypervitaminosis A, hypercalcemia, hypermagnesemia, iron poisoning, and an overdose of niacin, phosphorus and zinc, with your intake levels ranging from 8 times to 80 times the tolerable upper intake level of these nutrients. If these didn't kill you, the 500 grams of salt likely would, being about twice the estimated LD50.

Overall, I would not recommend living entirely on cookies.