What is the world's most perfect food.

[Squatch]

In your opinion, what food approximates nature's perfect food: the one food that, if you ate nothing else, would provide a completely nutritious diet.

[tjwmason]

1. Nothing.

That is no one food.

Variety is the essence of the perfect diet.

[Squatch]

4. Work with me. Say you're stranded on an island

and there is only one edible thing on that island, and it is nature's perfect food. What is it?

[tjwmason]

9. It's a logical impossibility.

[Squatch]

11. Alright, Spock...

Sheesh

[tjwmason]

13. I'm not being a spock

I'm just saying that braodly speaking the better a diet is, the more varied it is - the worse a diet is, the narrower it is.

[miss_kitty]

16. Bananas

I HATE bananas but a nurse told me the other night, if you were stranded on a desert island, hope for water and bananas :shudder:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

21. i too heard that bananas are nearly the ideal single food source. n/t

[Momgonepostal]

25. I'd think you'd get very constipated, eating only bananas

:shrug:

[miss_kitty]

32. that's why you need lotsa water

:D

[WeRQ4U]

33. Peanut Butter

I love it as a condiment and as a main course.

[peekaloo]

2. An apple?

[enigami]

3. Crab Legs

[TheMightyFavog]

5. Beer

:beer:

[Mizmoon]

6. Pizza

You gotcher bread group, yer veggie group, AND your gooey cheese group all covered in one magnificent pie ...

It IS TO a natural food! :)

[seemunkee]

19. I agree Pizza or Chili

Pizza - grains, veggies, dairy, and with toppings meat
Chili - Veggies, dairy(I put cheese on mine), meat, and got to have cornbread with it.

[XNASA]

7. Soy

[Momgonepostal]

26. One of the major allergens

That wouldn't work for many people, including my daughter.

[pitohui]

52. yes soy is a very bad choice

even if you're not allergic to start with it's an allergy that can be acquired by abuse of the food

happened to a relative of mine who got on the soy lecithin diet of the 70s

soy is ok in moderation i guess altho i don't agree w. what it is doing to the landscape of the americas & i prefer to urge ppl to avoid it

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Oh, perfectly NUTRITIOUS, not perfectly PLEASURABLE

Damn.

Taro, I would surmise, would be the one food a person could live on. Or bread fruit.

[pitohui]

50. taro kills

if all you eat is taro you die, one of my profs years ago studied this

a tribe he found in the amazon in the 60s had learned it could trade fish for cigarettes and taro

they were dropping like flies of various deficiency disease

i'll never forget his rant aga. taro

it's fine in a balanced diet but not as the only item in diet

[flvegan]

10. Soybeans

[Left_Winger]

12. A banana

:shrug:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

15. Banana - that's the conventional wisdom

Potassium, carbs - good energy source. Makes you feel slightly full (as opposed to stuffing yourself with candy).

[pitohui]

51. conventional wisdom is eggs

maybe i'm old school but the usda used to say it was eggs

never heard anyone say it was banana

[WoodrowFan]

14. bacon cheeseburgers!

[Shell Beau]

17. I don't know about nutritional and all that, but

anything Italian b/c it is so damn good.

[miss_kitty]

18. Ice cream

or GOOD frozen yogurt.

[noonwitch]

34. I've got to agree about ice cream

I don't like frozen yogurt, though. I like regular yogurt, just not the frozen kind.

[Beaverhausen]

55. yeah, ice cream

has calcium, protein and if you have it with nuts and fruit it's even more nutrituous.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. Avocado (that's what my Mom used to say anyway)

[Momgonepostal]

23. I was going to say this, too

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. Did Grandmomgonepostal say that too? (nt)

[Momgonepostal]

35. LOL...no, but I think I read it on a pro-avocado website nt

[SOteric]

22. Breast milk.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Nopenopenope...not gonna do it...

:nuke:

[SOteric]

46. Tsk. Dude.

:spank:

:7

[BikeWriter]

56. ROFLOL!

:)

[flamingyouth]

24. Soy

[Tafiti]

27. The most delicious, naturally-occuring food...

...would have to be watermelon. It's fucking fantastic.

[jpgray]

28. Bananas, definitely (nt)

[Heidi]

30. Tiramisu, properly prepared. (nt)

[Shell Beau]

40. Mmmm! That is the best dessert EVER!!

[dolo amber]

31. Guacamole

It's got fat and vitamins and some protein and other stuff that's good for you...probably. :think: :9

:D

[Wapsie B]

36. You even have to ask?

Fried Carp of course! It's not just for breakfast anymore.

;-)

[skygazer]

37. I don't know if anything would provide a completely nutritious diet alone

But I think artichokes are the world's most perfect food. I could eat 'em at every meal. Mmmmmm..... :9

[freestyle]

38. Gumbo. OK a single item is probably Avocado.

But give me some good gumbo and I am a happy man. Lasagna is right up there too. Good combo of carbs, protein and fat depending on how you make it.

[DelawareValleyDem]

39. watermelon

[Politically_Wrong]

42. Arby's...

Beef 'n Cheddar baby!

[youthere]

43. I don't know about a perfect food...

but I could be happy with nothing but this for awhile.

[Xipe Totec]

44. Soylent Green

Nutritious and delicious, but the taste varies from person to person.

:evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

45. Nonononono I was COMPLETELY WRONG!

The correct answer is SPAGHETTI AND MEATBALLS! Anything else is HERETIC!

[Graf Orlok]

47. A bottle of Centrum Complete.

That provides you with most of your vitamins and minerals. :)

[Ratty]

48. Lasagna

Garfield was right.

[pitohui]

49. foie gras ?

actually i'm pretty sure it's eggs

i do know that w.out any source of fat in the diet you can die pretty quick but without any source of greens in the diet, see under the inuit, you can live a nice long life if you also have no sugar

[Neshanic]

53. Cheesecake?

[no name no slogan]

54. Haggis

Mmmmmmm.....haggis. Ground-up sheep guts and oats, served in its own stomach. Tastes as good as it sounds.