With enough body fat, sprinkle in a bit of electrolyte and maybe vitamins and that’s all you need.
I remember reading of a supervised case like that, many months, if not a year. I couldn’t find it with a quick search.
I’m pretty sure I read/saw a more recent case. But this serves as a good source/proof too. Thanks
Me personally? I could probably make it years on beans, rice, and greens if I had to. Collard greens, rice and beans, oil and spices to season them, and onions.
So glad I don’t have to, but if I had to choose that would be it.
Breastmilk should be enough. Just difficult to source.
Potato
I’ve often heard repeated that a human can live on water, potatoes, and salted butter basically indefinitely.
Not sure how true, but seems plausible.
“beriberi” is malnutrition: it means literally “i cannot”.
You become … not very able to do what you need to do, to survive, on this kind of diet, fairly quickly.
Egg-bread & scrambled-eggs ( with a multivitamin every other day ) can get you FAR, ultra-cheap ( if you ever need to get through a month on nearly-nothing ).
( obviously this isn’t long-term, this is short-term-survival stuff )
add-in carrots, if you can.
A bit of broccoli makes a BIG difference in one’s health.
Do what you can to get some omega-3’s into you: our bodies can’t make them, & if our bodies have to make omega-6’s & omega-9’s, apparently they just run mitochondria backwards, to do it.
Even a tablespoon of olive-oil / day will help your body keep functioning.
Just one, I guess. As long as I don’t have to survive for very long
Assuming stuff like vinegar or salt doesn’t count?
Rice
Chicken breast
Cheese
Pasta noodles
Tomato sauce
Soy sauce
bread
Potatoes, butter, salt, molybdenum.
Pizza. Endless variety.
I believe 2, chia seeds and water, although I don’t know if you will meet calories requirement so might be 3.
I don’t have the expertise to answer the question, but I’m sad that so many answers here are jokes, or five word answers that aren’t at all helpful :-(
Was really interested in this and hoped there’d be some knowledgeable people out there to educate us on this stuff!
I love food way too much it’s probably like 15 to 20.
spoiler
- soya milk
- one type of cereal
- lets count uncooked eggs as 1 food type because i get to process them into any type i want
- dairy free butter
- olive oil
- rapeseed oil
- salt
- pepper
- pork ham
- chicken
- onions
- peas
- spinach
- sweet potatoes
- normal potatoes (i can now fabricate various flavours of crisps, yippee!)
- sultanas
- bananas
- tea OR coffee! Toss-up between the two.
- carrots
- wheat flour
- rice
- tomatoes
- pasta (some limit to what I’m willing to make myself)
- sourdough bread
- soya yoghurt
- apples
- oranges
- strawberries
28… i’m gonna stop listing stuff before I sound like a fat ass
You can survive off any single food item for some non-zero amount of time. Nothing we know of can allow you to survive forever. The question is always: how long?
Long enough to die of something other than a nutritional deficiency.
Cyanide
