What would happen if someone only ate 2 foods for a period of time, let’s say 2 months.
For instance, they could only eat peanut butter and bread or chicken and bananas.
Let’s say they’re getting enough calories in. Would they survive?
What would happen if someone only ate 2 foods for a period of time, let’s say 2 months.
For instance, they could only eat peanut butter and bread or chicken and bananas.
Let’s say they’re getting enough calories in. Would they survive?
You can and people have eaten nothing but potatoes for months on end. Potatoes have almost all necessary nutrients.
The question should be which two foods would make the best pair? Some nutrients boost the effect of others enormously, like vitamin C and iron or black pepper and turmeric. But then you'd also want a maximal spread of nutrients. How about bananas + chocolate or mackerel + wholemeal bread.
What consistutes a food? The answer to that makes a massive difference.
For example, a supreme pizza includes cheese, tomatoes, meats, veggies, bread.
Do we include "compound foods" like that as one food or multiple?
Also is something like bread a base level food, or do the yeast and salt count as their own basic level in addition to the wheat?
It seems you could cheat by just saying combination pizza baked with an egg in the middle, plus mixed fruit cups are your two foods. It would be easy enough to manipulate the exact ingredients used to make a pretty nutritionally complete food. For example, use no salt added tomatoes for the sauce, make it thin crust, cheese made with very low sodium, lots of green veggies as toppings, only minimal amounts of lean meats, etc.
Likewise sandwiches could be very easy to manipulate the ingredients list into something complete.