Questions regarding any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body.
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How much food can an average person eat, and which animal is that equivalent to?
When the average person overeats, how much food can he eat in a day? Which animal's average meal would that be equivalent to?
When documentaries are talking about animals feed, they usually say ...
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What nutrients can humans absorb in the mouth?
For instance, I realise being able to absorb simple sugars in the mouth is pivotal in the rapid action of oral glucose gel. Thus I was wondering what nutrients in general can be absorbed directly ...
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What are ways to compare the “costs” and “gains” of food production systems?
I'm looking for methodologies to compare the costs a food production requires with the gains it delivers (not in economic terms).
I'm aware of energy returned on investment. Are there other methods ...
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Glutamine analysis
I use to run a method to analyse all the aminoacids in a food sample. For that I have to hydrololyse the sample and in the last stage of the method I read the amino acids with a ion exchange ...
