People have been saying this for the past few decades “Meal Replacement Pills are the future”. So just think what if we get them now? How would they affect our diet? Could this solve world hunger? Or at least Will we ever see them in our lifetime? Here’s what could happen if you get your meal in a pill.
Mean Pill’s began as a feminist ideal. Leading up to 1893 to the Chicago’s Worlds Fair where the American press association asked the writers to predict the world of 1993. So American suffragette, Mary Elizabeth Lease described a world of synthetic food freeing women from kitchen work and other domestic chores. In the decades that followed science fiction novelists, play writers, filmmakers, and others from different fields, all experimented with the idea of meal replacement pill in their respective fields.
So far the best which we could get is “Soylent”, it is a thick and creamy concoction that contains all the fat, vitamins, proteins, minerals you need for a day. So if we can drink our meals, why can’t we just pop em. It wouldn’t be hard to replace a portion of your diet with nutrient pills. After all, you can pick up every essential vitamin in pill form at your local grocery store. In doing so you might think you’re pretty nutritious and intelligent, but you wouldn’t look it. You’d grow irritable, depressed, tired, and you’d eventually die of starvation. Because it is not just nutrients we’d need to survive, we also need calories. An average adult would need 2000 calories per day to survive.
So how do you fit than many calories into a pill? You don’t, You can’t. Even though fat is the most concentrated source of calories, you can’t fit enough of it into a single pill. But if you were set on subsisting on a pill only diet then you’d have to eat 450 calorie pill’s on a daily basis. Plus other vitamins to get your needed nutrients. That’s sort of how Soylent was invented.
Living in San Francisco with high rent and high grocery bill, Rob Rhinehart thought to economize through chemistry. He found out what the body needed to survive, Ordered the raw ingredients mostly in powdered form, tossed them in a blender, added water and mixed up a healthy cocktail. His grocery bill was reduced by $420. Consider a pill with such a magnitude we could live in a much more efficient world. And one with greater food security.
Since future meals would be easy and efficient to manufacture and east to send around the world. The effect of climatic change today are beginning to limit what we can grow. Farms around the world are seeing fewer yields due to global warming and increased drought.
We might never it in one pill but it’s possible, if not likely, that full meal replacement are the way of the future. And if you’re afraid that all your favourite flavours might disappear if all your food came in a pill, Don’t be!. Researchers in England recently found a way to put multiple flavours into a single capsule and have them released one at a time, at different intervals. So what’s the future of food? Fast, frugal and flavourful. Gutes Essen.
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