6 ms·
After reading the first Soylent post, I felt inspired to try and come up with a recipe for a "nutritionally complete" soup. I used an online tool that calculate
by markerdmann 14y ago
After reading the first Soylent post, I felt inspired to try and come up with a recipe for a "nutritionally complete" soup. I used an online tool that calculates the total nutrients for a recipe and came up with this:
3 potatoes
1 onion
500 grams of wild alaskan salmon
1/2 cup of mushrooms
3.5 tbsp of olive oil
30 grams of sunflower seeds
1 tbsp of dried parsley
2 tbsp of ground thyme
50 grams of parmesan cheese
3 cloves of garlic
20 grams of sesame seeds
1 medium oyster (from a can)
1 tbsp of ground mace
1 tsp of cod liver oil
To cook it I just added everything to boiling water in order of cooking time, starting with the potatoes and onions and ending with the salmon.
I tried making it last night and ate it for dinner and breakfast, and it was delicious! I also feel amazing. I guess I should track the effects of the recipe on quantified-mind.com. :-)
I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot.
- abecedarius 14y agoNeat experiment. If the cod liver oil's for vitamins, I think cooking will mess that up.
- cheeseprocedure 14y agoIt would be really handy to have a table of common raw ingredients, the temperatures at which they become safe to eat (if applicable), and the temperature at which their various nutrients denature.
- jaggederest 14y ago> the temperatures at which they become safe to eat (if applicable) Most modern food can be eaten raw. Or lightly seared to kill surface bacteria. Modern food safety is pretty neat. It probably won't taste great though. NB this does not apply to raw processed meat - for example, ground beef/pork/chicken is probably a bad bet. Surface area to volume ratios are key.
- ricardobeat 14y agoTuna to the rescue. Delicious when seared but raw inside. If it wasn't for the mercury content...
- jaggederest 14y agoAgreed, my two servings a month hardly count :(
- MrBra 14y agoCould you share the name of the online tool you used? Thanks
- markerdmann 14y agoSure, it's at: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
- klipt 14y agoGoogle brings up http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp
- intended 14y agoProbably could add some lemon to cut the flavor I suspect. No harm in having something that tastes good, and cooking is one of the best hacks there is.
- markerdmann 14y agoThanks, that's a great tip.
- johnchristopher 14y ago> I was actually surprised by how hard it was to fit all of the daily nutrient requirements into a recipe with about 2000-2500 calories (while also avoiding nutrient overdoses). It would be great if someone would create a website for "nutritionally complete" recipes, especially recipes that are cheap and easy to make with a good blender or crockpot. I hit the same wall when I overturned my eating habits and tried to fit all my nutrients into my three-meals-a-day habit. I succeeded by tweaking things but then it dawned on me I could spread out all the nutrients on a week. It made recipes composition much easier. It wasn't some kind of soylent though but "regular" meals.
- markerdmann 14y agoYeah, I was wondering the same thing as I was making the recipe. That brings up an interesting question: Is it fine to get 200% of your daily requirement for Vitamin A on one day and 0% the second day and let things average out, or will you be healthier if you get a steady stream of your daily requirements throughout the day? Maybe there are some nutrients that are easily stored in the body (like fat-soluble vitamins) and some that aren't?
- akiselev 14y agoI'm not a biologist but many vitamins are water soluble. They may stay in your body long enough but chances are you'll urinate most of the unnecessary vitamins out.
- XorNot 14y agoThis is in fact why multi-vitamin pills are a useless generic habit. Vitamins are trace compounds/elements by nature, and your body is very careful to eliminate excesses (since they can catalyze all sorts of side-reactions which can be otherwise harmful). The classic example is if you take multi-vitamins, you usually have noticeably different colored urine. That's no coincidence.
- vidarh 14y ago
- kaeluka 14y agoscale this up, freeze it in portion-size bags, repeat with other recipes, have healthy, quick, delicious lunch for weeks.
- DanBC 14y agoVitamin C is destroyed by heat. I'm not sure where the iron is? Is it safe to eat wild alaskan salmon every day?
- acti0nman 14y agoNutritionally complete recipes? I think George Mateljan has been trying to do just that. Here's his 7 day healthiest menu plan. http://www.whfoods.com/hwep.php http://www.whfoods.com/hwep.php (His site could use do-over)
- saiko-chriskun 13y agoI also came to this realization and quickly built out http://saiko-chriskun.github.com/nutricount http://saiko-chriskun.github.com/nutricount. Working on plans to make it into a more complete product with recipes and such :).