What is the most "complete" food.

Is there any one food that could sustain a human, without consuming anything else (except fresh water)? By food, I mean a natural food…meat, fruit, vegitable, grain, etc., so pizza doesn’t count.

Stuffed cabbage.

Roast beef sub with lettuce, onion, tomato, hot peppers and sweet peppers.

Breastmilk by itself is obviously capable of sustaining humans for the first several years of their lives. You could probably live on it for years thereafter as well.

Cow’s milk comes pretty close for humans although it is missing a nutrient or two. But I doubt if there is anything natural that is closer to a complete food in the sense you mean.

BEANS!

or bananas

ok. Now just show me where they grow on trees.:stuck_out_tongue:

Ummm… I can look at the topics and figure which ones are yours.
Have you done the gry post yet?

Answer to OP: Fruit. Fresh. The zoo seems to swear by it.

I once read about some tests being run on eating raw meat and nothing else. The theory was that Eskimoes have nothing else to eat and survive.

Eggs.

Beans? Hey, are the above answers real or are you guys just blurting (or typing, rather) out the first food that comes to mind?

The question is, why does anyone care? Offhand, I don’t know of any animal that eats just one thing. Yet the health food dimmies have us believe there must be some perfect food that’s an antidote to our foolish modern food that we’ve been eating for 20,000 years.

No joke, man! Beans are it! You got yer protein, you got yer vitties, you got yer versatility in cooking methods, and they’re musical too. Plus they’re not very demanding on soil so they can be grown in various climates with relatively lower strain on the land.

Beans rock!

Eggs. They do, after all, contain all the protein, carbs, fats, and nutrients needed to grow an embryo into a baby chicken.

That doesn’t, naturally, mean they’re good for you. But they’ll keep you alive & free of malnutrition problems pretty much indefinitely.

SCSimmons, I’m gonna argue with you on those eggs simply on the grounds of securement. You gotta have a chicken to lay those eggs. There are no shortages of chickens, but lookng at this holistically, the way we procure our food is just as important. Chicken shit is a major polluter of water sheds, and feeding them is another factor that can’t be ignored.

Go with beans

I am wondering if bread-fruit would protect from scurvy.

scurvy, ha! Who needs teeth when you’re gumming beans!

Wouldn’t long pig contain all the nutrients you require? (As well as several diseases that you don’t, but no food is perfect).

Soylent Green is people

haven’t figured out how to do this properly, but this is apparently a great recipe for Long Pig:

http://www.fix.org/jennyg/longpig.html

Blood.

It carries all of the nutrients necessary to sustain a human being; especially if it’s human blood. If you can find a way to digest an all-blood diet, you’re good to go.

What? You wanted a viable single food? Try milk; not quite as complete, but less creepy.

maybe not that good, but wondering, what about cat food or dog food, seems to work for most animals.