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Brainlet here, can someone explain why meal replacement pills or similar haven't been invented yet?

>> No.10153849
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10153849

https://onions.com/

>> No.10153851

>>10153753
Here goy, have some Snacc™ pills instead of cooking yourself a wholesome and delicious meal so you can keep working!!

>> No.10153924

>>10153753
I took a serious look into this years ago and you can get everything you need from pills alone. Liver pill would have constituted most of the diet. It ended up being something like 30+ various pills a day. The problem wasn't so much the nutrition it was destroying my stomach lining by taking so many pills.

>> No.10153933

>>10153753
I imagine your typical calorie intake is a sheer mass in grams that just isn't practical in pill form.

>> No.10153937

>>10153933
What about an extremely dense calorie pill. Something like a nuclear pill that has as much energy in calories as a nuclear bomb.

>> No.10153943

>>10153849
Where is the green one?

>> No.10154342

>>10153753
Doable but not very healthy. Long-term you would suffer. There's no reason not to just eat food, it's easier in all respects. There's no need for it in military or space applications, either. The 'instant' foods used in these are quite mature and effective, space and weight is irrelevant in something that compact.

>> No.10154594

This is neither here nor there, but your jaws would atrophy extremely if you stopped eating

>> No.10154902

>>10153937
Still needs weight, say you could put an entire day's worth of food in a pill, would you be able to lift it?

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>>10154902
like the food pills in Naruto

>> No.10155035

>>10153849
Wtf is Nectar meant to taste like?

>> No.10155039

>>10153851
Yes, Goy, yes. Try the new SuperStim(tm) meal pill with a mystery ingredient, you only have 12 hours left on your shift. A new product for that last leg of the day.

>> No.10155048

>>10153753
Average BMR is about 1800 kcal. The most nutrient dense molecules are lipids. Assuming permanent ketosis, you'd need 200 grams of your meal replacement pill. 200 grams is far too much for a pill
That's ignoring the potential long term effects of ketosis. And you need proteins anyway. In reality you're looking at 360 grams. You cannot compress that into a pill

>>10155035
Like honey I guess