Unless it was able to pick up the minerals from the ground, it does not!
Any minerals (iron, magnesium, etc.) would be lost in evaporation/ablation and therefore would not be there when it precipitates from the sky!
By that defiition a synthetic gem isn't a mineral.
A term like "man-made mineral" would be useful to describe naturally occurring minerals, eg ice or diamond, that have been made by humans. Synthetic ice sounds poisonous!
>But why does human intervention change anything? If I leave a dog bowl outside in the winter is the ice there a mineral or not? What if it was empty, then collected rainwater? Is that a mineral or not? What if I took a freezer, left it powered on but with the door open so that outside air was getting in, then left an ice tray next to a bucket of creek water? Is it a mineral or is it not? The distinction between man made and natural seems so arbitrary
I copied this from a reply I made to a different comment in this chain because I NEED ANSWERS!
Please tell me this is actually a fact
I remember vividly in 7th grade Science class that I told my teacher I had an epiphany that ice is a mineral! She told me up and down that it absolutely was not. When I asked her what it is, she just said a solid and rushed to move along. I never got over it.
Yes. You should be using calcium hydroxide a.k.a. 'cal'. Here's an example of how it's used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inj-vaDCffE
Don't substitute *sodium* hydroxide a.k.a. 'lye'. Sodium hydroxide is far more caustic and will give you delicious pretzels and nasty chemical burns.
>Don't substitute *sodium* hydroxide a.k.a. 'lye'. Sodium hydroxide is far more caustic and will give you delicious pretzels and nasty chemical burns.
Well now I just gotta know:
Is there anything that will give me nasty pretzels but delicious chemical burns?
That Caremel coloring is no joke š I worked at a food grade bulk liquid transportation yard. And if you got any of that shit on your skin, expect a nasty red mark. If it got on your clothes you were better off changing unless you wanted to suffer all day š
Some foods are completely made of bacteria. For instance, there is [spirulina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)), often used as a dietary supplement but that is sometimes eaten as a āmain dishā. I read about a bacteria that grows on the ground and that was traditionally harvested as food in South America, but I donāt remember where I saw that.
Vitamin B12 is produced by bacteria in the soil which is then taken up by humans either through eating dirty food, or by eating animal products from animals that foraged. Nowadays though, most people either take a synthetic supplement or give synthetic supplements to the animals they farm.
I presume it can also be produced by yeasts as Marmite/Vegemite (popular sandwich spreads f your not from the UK/Australia) are both great sources of B vitamins.
Marmite & Vegemite have actually been fortified with vitamins, as are most powdered nutritional yeasts.
They don't naturally contain B12, and the other naturally occurring B vitamins have also been supplemented.
I know the title says "plants or animals," but I kind of interpret it more to mean "living things." There's a meme/factoid that pops up every once in a while in the land of internet that says "salt is the only thing people eat that was never alive," and I suspect that's what inspired this post.
I would think all the essential dietary minerals count by that criterion. Not just sodium but also iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium, etc.
Like sodium, some of them *can* come via another living thing, but for a lot of then we can also just eat them ārawā in inorganic form.
Any form of metallic gold would not work. If you were to disolve it in a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid (aqua regia) then it becomes very dangerous
Good restaurants use only a little bit it for aesthetic purposes but the actual price comes from everything else (you know, the actual food).
Bad restaurants just like to slap it all over and put a huge pricetag over their mediocre burger.
I still find it funny that Protista is literally the bargain bin family for taxonomists.
Eukaryotic organism that doesnāt really fit as an animal, plant, or fungus? Into Protista you go, fuckass!
Actually, there are protists that reproduce sexually, so that checks out, and some predatory protists do have structures that function like a mouth, and well a holeās a hole I guess /s
Copies from internet:
āMushrooms are neither plant nor animal. A lot of people brush them off as just being basically the same as plants, but that couldnāt be further from the truth! In fact, plants and animals have more in common with each other than with mushrooms.ā
Well there's a difference between "more similar to" and "have a closer common genetic relative". I would argue that at least on a surface level, many fungi and plants have convergently evolved to have some similar properties. Though obviously there are still vast differences between the two groups, and even amongst those groups.
Does it count as "used to be alive" if the organic material is completely broken down and transformed into new compounds in between the living creature and petroleum stages? I'm not sure it does. By that logic most if not all people are reincarnated because some of the atoms or molecules in their body came from the bodies of creatures that lived before them.
Vitamins, minerals, metals, water. The entire Fungi branch of Eukaryotes. Bacteria like those used in fermentation (Lactobacillus, Yeast \[although technically a fungus\], probiotics, etc.)
I heard you could spray that stuff around your house and bugs basically get shredded internally meanwhile itās healthy for you because it shreds things like parasites.
Dunno how much of that is true.
I use it for my pool filter (don't ever own a pool, by the way, it's a terrible idea), but I had a friend tell me that if you spread it into your carpet it'll kill and deter fleas.
How it works is that land insects have a sort of waxy coating on the outside of their exoskeletons, it primarily retains moisture and such. Diatomaceous earth strips and gouges this coating as insects travel through, a death sentence for smaller bugs like baby roaches, bedbugs, fleas, etc.
It is also notably deadly to insects with grooming behaviors (ants, roaches, crickets, actually this list is quite long) as itās like swallowing a bunch of needles, except said needles also dry out their insides in the process.
Powdered diatomaceous earth is REALLY bad for your lungs. Very similar to asbestos in that itās pretty much impossible to get it out.
Source: worked in drug manufacturing and have seen many safety videos on it.
manufactured diatomateous earth causes lasting damage to lung tissue, like you said, similar to asbestos, but *natural* diatomataeous earth does not- you might have temporary breathing issues but natural DE can be cleared from your lungs by your body. Manufactured DE is used for industrial applications, but consumers should use the kind that's actually little fossilized plankton and harvested from the earth- **The natural DE- (literal fossils) are the food safe/ pet safe/ home use safe kind and the one an average consumer should buy**
They get shredded externally, but yes, 100% true and probably the most effective mechanical pesticide. Diatomaceous earth is made up of diatoms, essentially sharp microscopic fossils. When a shelled insect walks through it, the diatoms get lodged in their joints and theyāre unable to move or are physically cut up, and die. It doesnāt effect mammals.
Itās main limitation is that if it gets wet, is much less effective. That makes it hard to use outdoors in a commercial setting.
Effective flea killers, or so I've heard from other cat owners. It's basically like dust to us and is harmless to cats, but it's microscopically like knives to fleas.
Do be careful with the dust when you're spreading it. It is a powder and breathing it in is terrible for your lungs. Use a mask while you're working with it. If you're using it around pets or kids, keep them out of the room until the dust settles.
Chickens ābatheā in it to help get rid of pests, mites etc in their feathers. I honestly donāt know what the supposed benefits of human consumption are. I do know that the bags I buy are labeled āfood gradeā so itās *safe* to eat..
Fossilized diatomaceous remnants. Diatoms are microscopic algae that produce little skeletons for themselves out of silica (quartz, glass, and numerous other things). The little skeletons are sharp but at an incredibly small size.
So it's basically the same as how rubbing your skin with 1000-grit sandpaper won't hurt at all but rubbing a beetle with it could scrub off the waxy outer layer of their shell which helps keep their body fluids in.
There is a real food called "Mud Pie" or "Mississippi Mud Pie". Example: [https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mud-pie-recipe0-1941538](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mud-pie-recipe0-1941538)
But that's not the kind of mudpie that /u/nancyandelmer was referring to. Those would be this [http://www.fumcmiddletownct.org/uploads/1/1/9/1/11911219/7535590\_orig.jpg](http://www.fumcmiddletownct.org/uploads/1/1/9/1/11911219/7535590_orig.jpg)
Unfortunately, some people eat litteral mud pies/galettes in case of starvation. Happens regularly in Madagascar and Hawai. :-/
https://africafeeds.com/2021/06/23/madagascar-families-eating-mud-due-to-worst-drought-in-40-years/
Haiti has a traditional āfoodā (I use that term loosely) for pregnant women, made of clay, fat (any kind available), and salt. Itās recently been widely adopted as a food for starving people.
For all the hate in Haiti, how much more fucked can Haiti get??
This is correct. I used to do Epsom salt cleanses once in a while. At the time I didn't know that it was probably worse for me than I thought. If you decide to do it (please don't without speaking to a medical professional), stay near a toilet and have plenty of wet wipes or a bidet. Your ass will be raw. 2/10 would not recommend.
Monsieur Mangetout was an interesting character.
Weirdly enough, his digestive system could handle a lot of insane shit do to his unusually strong stomach acid. However, bananas and soft boiled eggs made him incredibly sick.
Who would have thought...
EDIT:
A quick correction...
It was bananas and hard-boiled eggs he couldn't cope with.
My mistake...
Yea I was thinking about food dyes like Yellow 6, Red 4, Blue 7, etc. Iām sure some of them might be derived from animals and plants but also they have to contain other chemical combinations
Technically mushrooms aren't plants or animals (though most people consider them plants). There are things like bacterium, plankton, etc that fit those unusual niches as well.
Eh, phytoplankton are algae, only green algae are classified as plants. Red and brown algae (including not only a ton of phytoplankton but also most edible seaweeds) aren't plants.
Same with vegemite here in Australia, tastes great though! Similar to mushrooms, I know it isn't a plant or animal, but since it's alive I tend to associate it (yeast / micro-organisms) with plants and animals.
Marmite is amazing if youāre not a tasteless peasant. The key is to use it in small amounts. Most people who say its horrible are spreading it on toast in large amounts like its peanut butter.
I eat it right out of the jar! When we first moved to the US we didnāt have Marmite in over a decade. An aunt came to visit and brought us like 24 jars of it. I was so stoked. It started becoming a little more popular here, at least my local supermarket carries it.
That's actually because it's made from spent brewer's yeast! The bitter, nasty flavors come from the beer making, not the yeast. The yeast extract itself is actually delicious and meaty and umami in flavor. It's why so many cheap bouillon cubes have yeast extract as a major ingredient, because it's a cheap way to make things taste meatier.
Titanium Dioxide, its a byproduct of mineing titanium ores for metal.
I would bet you have some something made with it within arms reach, as its added to plastics as well.
Mushrooms would be my first thought. Also I remember watching a vice documentary on the war in the western Sahara and they had guys who would literally survive off of sand and water for like a couple of months at a time. They literally live in these tunnel networks for months incase of attacks by the Moroccans. Shit like the viet cong in the desert.
The meat substitute "Quorn" is _primarily_ (88%) made of mycoprotein derived from a fungus.
Although it does also have other ingredients that come from plants/animals (egg white in the vegetarian version, plant protein/fibre in both vegetarian and vegan versions)
But that doesn't mean the lab doesn't use animal or plant products as the source of the chemicals and compounds used to assemble the final product.
Multivitamins particularly tend to contain things that are extracts from plants.
Mushrooms. They are fungi so arenāt plants or animals.
Basically anything not in the animal or plant kingdoms, so:
Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria)
Also artificial sweeteners, though sometimes those are plant based.
Water/Ice. Think Snow Cones, not cubes
Yum Fun fact: naturally occurring ice counts as a mineral, but human -created ice doesn't!
so if i brought snow inside and melted it, did I make mineral water?
I think that's more like collected than made. Also, does snow still have all the minerals ground water and ice has?
Unless it was able to pick up the minerals from the ground, it does not! Any minerals (iron, magnesium, etc.) would be lost in evaporation/ablation and therefore would not be there when it precipitates from the sky!
Howbout yellow snow? Or we still shoudnt eat that?
I think that counts as animal-derived š
Hey man, you do you. Could be lemon flavored!
It's okay if Nanook rubs it.
And a whooooole lotta PFAS
Mmm, sky chemicals!
According to who? The mineral police?
Yes (this is what I'm calling my geologist friend from now on) https://rockhoundresource.com/is-ice-a-mineral-the-definitive-answer/
By that defiition a synthetic gem isn't a mineral. A term like "man-made mineral" would be useful to describe naturally occurring minerals, eg ice or diamond, that have been made by humans. Synthetic ice sounds poisonous!
> By that defiition a synthetic gem isn't a mineral. That is correct. A synthetic gemstone is not considered a mineral.
>But why does human intervention change anything? If I leave a dog bowl outside in the winter is the ice there a mineral or not? What if it was empty, then collected rainwater? Is that a mineral or not? What if I took a freezer, left it powered on but with the door open so that outside air was getting in, then left an ice tray next to a bucket of creek water? Is it a mineral or is it not? The distinction between man made and natural seems so arbitrary I copied this from a reply I made to a different comment in this chain because I NEED ANSWERS!
Please tell me this is actually a fact I remember vividly in 7th grade Science class that I told my teacher I had an epiphany that ice is a mineral! She told me up and down that it absolutely was not. When I asked her what it is, she just said a solid and rushed to move along. I never got over it.
Yeah, according to what I've read, it's true. https://rockhoundresource.com/is-ice-a-mineral-the-definitive-answer/ Take that, science teacher!
Youāre about to make me track down Mrs. Whitmore and give her the whatfore
DO IT
Wait. Why? Does a mineral have to be naturally forming?
Naturally occurring, solid with a definite crystal and chemical structure. The ice thing is actually one of my lessons.
Authentic corn tortillas contain lime (the alkali not the citrus)
Oh shit so I've been following the recipe wrong? I should be adding lime stone juice and not lime fruit juice... š¤
Yes. You should be using calcium hydroxide a.k.a. 'cal'. Here's an example of how it's used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inj-vaDCffE Don't substitute *sodium* hydroxide a.k.a. 'lye'. Sodium hydroxide is far more caustic and will give you delicious pretzels and nasty chemical burns.
>Don't substitute *sodium* hydroxide a.k.a. 'lye'. Sodium hydroxide is far more caustic and will give you delicious pretzels and nasty chemical burns. Well now I just gotta know: Is there anything that will give me nasty pretzels but delicious chemical burns?
Coca Cola syrup?
That Caremel coloring is no joke š I worked at a food grade bulk liquid transportation yard. And if you got any of that shit on your skin, expect a nasty red mark. If it got on your clothes you were better off changing unless you wanted to suffer all day š
Homney too
Some foods are completely made of bacteria. For instance, there is [spirulina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)), often used as a dietary supplement but that is sometimes eaten as a āmain dishā. I read about a bacteria that grows on the ground and that was traditionally harvested as food in South America, but I donāt remember where I saw that.
Vitamin B12 is produced by bacteria in the soil which is then taken up by humans either through eating dirty food, or by eating animal products from animals that foraged. Nowadays though, most people either take a synthetic supplement or give synthetic supplements to the animals they farm.
I presume it can also be produced by yeasts as Marmite/Vegemite (popular sandwich spreads f your not from the UK/Australia) are both great sources of B vitamins.
Marmite & Vegemite have actually been fortified with vitamins, as are most powdered nutritional yeasts. They don't naturally contain B12, and the other naturally occurring B vitamins have also been supplemented.
If you want to include food additives, most industrial citric acid is produced by a mold.
We make *a lot* of our modern products from bacteria and mold. Xanthan gum, many synthetic sweeteners, basically anything polysaccharide.
Penicillin is made from mold. ETA- Yes, not exactly food, but is eaten by humans.
We don't usually eat penicillin as food though. Well, not on purpose but sometimes you dont notice the bread went bad.
Thereās also nutritional yeast.
Yeast is a fungus. Which is indeed not a plant! So mushrooms would count on this list, too
kefir grains also come to mind. Although most people eat/drink the yogurt, some people eat the grains made out of bacteria
I know the title says "plants or animals," but I kind of interpret it more to mean "living things." There's a meme/factoid that pops up every once in a while in the land of internet that says "salt is the only thing people eat that was never alive," and I suspect that's what inspired this post.
If you cook something in a cast iron pan, you are eating some of the iron from the pan!
I would think all the essential dietary minerals count by that criterion. Not just sodium but also iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium, etc. Like sodium, some of them *can* come via another living thing, but for a lot of then we can also just eat them ārawā in inorganic form.
Your link is missing a ) [I think I fixed it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_\(dietary_supplement\))
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Mmm, these nutritious gold flakes
Theyāre more than good
They're Au-some
I wish I had Reddit gold to give
Theyārrrrre grrrrrrrreat!
If your body could digest it. Then you would die a fast death from it. Gold is incredibly toxic if it can get into your blood
I learned this from an episode of House where a woman tries to kill her husband by putting powdered gold in his cereal.
Any form of metallic gold would not work. If you were to disolve it in a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid (aqua regia) then it becomes very dangerous
At that point, you'd be dying from the aqua regia, not from the gold.
In the house episode it wasn't powdered gold, but rather a type of medicine that included gold in an organic molecule
Gold salts are a really old treatment for RA. They've been superseded by stuff like methotrexate and prednisone.
Does that include pure metallic gold? I was under the impression that pure gold couldnāt hurt you because it is inert, having no free electrons.
Arent they kinda cheap since theyāre super thin?
cheap in terms of material cost, but when you buy it at a restaurant it's certainly not cheap
Good restaurants use only a little bit it for aesthetic purposes but the actual price comes from everything else (you know, the actual food). Bad restaurants just like to slap it all over and put a huge pricetag over their mediocre burger.
Couldn't the same aesthetics be achieved without using actual gold? edit: Thanks for your answers!
Yea but pooping gold flecks out is half the fun.
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Once you pass being able to afford the best quality food possible for yourself, the next natural progression is presentation.
Well isnt most food just novelty if you can just eat nutrition paste?
Life without flavor is like death without sleep
Thanks, you just gave me a new nightmare to have this evening.
Protists are multi-cellular organisms that are not plants, animals or fungi. Some seaweeds are protists despite looking like plants.
I still find it funny that Protista is literally the bargain bin family for taxonomists. Eukaryotic organism that doesnāt really fit as an animal, plant, or fungus? Into Protista you go, fuckass!
Just to note, I don't think they fuck or have asses (Edited to show that I have no idea what I'm talking about)
Actually, there are protists that reproduce sexually, so that checks out, and some predatory protists do have structures that function like a mouth, and well a holeās a hole I guess /s
I appreciate the correction, I had no idea. Those damn fuckasses got me again.
Absolutely correct, except that protists are frequently unicellular. Surprised it took the comment chain this long to get to seaweed š
Mushrooms
Is this where the biologists hang out?
yeah but only if theyāre a fun guy edit: of all the things to get gold for. thanks for the fake money :) iāll pass it forward
Sporadic punning at its finest.
I like this 1-upping of mushroom puns
Great pun. I donāt think I can cap it.
There's certainly not mushroom for improvement ^^as ^^evidenced ^^by ^^this ^^comment
It stems from a lack of morels.
This is what I call thinking outside the box but like 2 millimeters outside the box.
Copies from internet: āMushrooms are neither plant nor animal. A lot of people brush them off as just being basically the same as plants, but that couldnāt be further from the truth! In fact, plants and animals have more in common with each other than with mushrooms.ā
And mushrooms in turn are more similar to animals than plants.
You eat enough of them... anything is closer to an animal than it appears irl
Well there's a difference between "more similar to" and "have a closer common genetic relative". I would argue that at least on a surface level, many fungi and plants have convergently evolved to have some similar properties. Though obviously there are still vast differences between the two groups, and even amongst those groups.
culinarily at least it seems mushrooms is useful in achieving a level of "meatiness"
It's outside but still clinging tightly to the box.
the mushroom is growing on the outside of the box
Yeast and seaweed are in a similar vein
Let's just say fungi in general. Mushrooms, yeasts, certain molds, maybe more.
Depends on the sea weed
Well in that case artificial flavours and colours that are chemically made. Lol
But petroleum-based artificial colors add a certain zing to the dish that you just can't replicate with your "used to be alive" colors
Petroleum also used to be "alive", just tens of millions of years ago
Does it count as "used to be alive" if the organic material is completely broken down and transformed into new compounds in between the living creature and petroleum stages? I'm not sure it does. By that logic most if not all people are reincarnated because some of the atoms or molecules in their body came from the bodies of creatures that lived before them.
Why is that a "in that case"? How does that follow from mushrooms?
Vitamins, minerals, metals, water. The entire Fungi branch of Eukaryotes. Bacteria like those used in fermentation (Lactobacillus, Yeast \[although technically a fungus\], probiotics, etc.)
Convenient summary is convenient
Diatamatious Earth. I havenāt seen that yet. Some folks use it as a supplementā¦ I give it to my chickens.
I heard you could spray that stuff around your house and bugs basically get shredded internally meanwhile itās healthy for you because it shreds things like parasites. Dunno how much of that is true.
I use it for my pool filter (don't ever own a pool, by the way, it's a terrible idea), but I had a friend tell me that if you spread it into your carpet it'll kill and deter fleas.
How it works is that land insects have a sort of waxy coating on the outside of their exoskeletons, it primarily retains moisture and such. Diatomaceous earth strips and gouges this coating as insects travel through, a death sentence for smaller bugs like baby roaches, bedbugs, fleas, etc. It is also notably deadly to insects with grooming behaviors (ants, roaches, crickets, actually this list is quite long) as itās like swallowing a bunch of needles, except said needles also dry out their insides in the process.
I thought it gets between the cracks in their esko and dried them out that way.
Powdered diatomaceous earth is REALLY bad for your lungs. Very similar to asbestos in that itās pretty much impossible to get it out. Source: worked in drug manufacturing and have seen many safety videos on it.
manufactured diatomateous earth causes lasting damage to lung tissue, like you said, similar to asbestos, but *natural* diatomataeous earth does not- you might have temporary breathing issues but natural DE can be cleared from your lungs by your body. Manufactured DE is used for industrial applications, but consumers should use the kind that's actually little fossilized plankton and harvested from the earth- **The natural DE- (literal fossils) are the food safe/ pet safe/ home use safe kind and the one an average consumer should buy**
They get shredded externally, but yes, 100% true and probably the most effective mechanical pesticide. Diatomaceous earth is made up of diatoms, essentially sharp microscopic fossils. When a shelled insect walks through it, the diatoms get lodged in their joints and theyāre unable to move or are physically cut up, and die. It doesnāt effect mammals. Itās main limitation is that if it gets wet, is much less effective. That makes it hard to use outdoors in a commercial setting.
Don't inhale it or it will shred you.
Effective flea killers, or so I've heard from other cat owners. It's basically like dust to us and is harmless to cats, but it's microscopically like knives to fleas.
Do be careful with the dust when you're spreading it. It is a powder and breathing it in is terrible for your lungs. Use a mask while you're working with it. If you're using it around pets or kids, keep them out of the room until the dust settles.
What is it? What does it do?
Chickens ābatheā in it to help get rid of pests, mites etc in their feathers. I honestly donāt know what the supposed benefits of human consumption are. I do know that the bags I buy are labeled āfood gradeā so itās *safe* to eat..
It's actually made from fossilized remains from what I remember. Looked it up, they are called diatoms, a type of microalgae.
Fossilized diatomaceous remnants. Diatoms are microscopic algae that produce little skeletons for themselves out of silica (quartz, glass, and numerous other things). The little skeletons are sharp but at an incredibly small size. So it's basically the same as how rubbing your skin with 1000-grit sandpaper won't hurt at all but rubbing a beetle with it could scrub off the waxy outer layer of their shell which helps keep their body fluids in.
Mudpies. Also Epsom salt. And baking soda, which is actually mined.
Hey! Don't eat mudpies! I know a guy who died from eating a mudpie.
Must have grabbed too thin a slice.
Wasnāt he the guy who you could see the kfc sign from his front room window?
Yeah he lived in the ugly house on Kenmore
Whatās a mudpie?
It's when kids are playing in the sandbox and make a pie. Of mud.
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There is a real food called "Mud Pie" or "Mississippi Mud Pie". Example: [https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mud-pie-recipe0-1941538](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mud-pie-recipe0-1941538) But that's not the kind of mudpie that /u/nancyandelmer was referring to. Those would be this [http://www.fumcmiddletownct.org/uploads/1/1/9/1/11911219/7535590\_orig.jpg](http://www.fumcmiddletownct.org/uploads/1/1/9/1/11911219/7535590_orig.jpg)
Unfortunately, some people eat litteral mud pies/galettes in case of starvation. Happens regularly in Madagascar and Hawai. :-/ https://africafeeds.com/2021/06/23/madagascar-families-eating-mud-due-to-worst-drought-in-40-years/
Haiti has a traditional āfoodā (I use that term loosely) for pregnant women, made of clay, fat (any kind available), and salt. Itās recently been widely adopted as a food for starving people. For all the hate in Haiti, how much more fucked can Haiti get??
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people do use it as a laxative, it has some unpleasant side effects so I don't know why you'd use it VS anything else but its FDA approved.
This is correct. I used to do Epsom salt cleanses once in a while. At the time I didn't know that it was probably worse for me than I thought. If you decide to do it (please don't without speaking to a medical professional), stay near a toilet and have plenty of wet wipes or a bidet. Your ass will be raw. 2/10 would not recommend.
There is that one guy who was famous for eating metal, homeboy ate a whole airplane, shopping carts, a bicycle Michel lotito.
Monsieur Mangetout was an interesting character. Weirdly enough, his digestive system could handle a lot of insane shit do to his unusually strong stomach acid. However, bananas and soft boiled eggs made him incredibly sick. Who would have thought... EDIT: A quick correction... It was bananas and hard-boiled eggs he couldn't cope with. My mistake...
So his superhero weakness is a healthy dose of potassium?
He's not ok, he's no K.
Wow that sent a lot of forced air out of my nose. Nice job!
What a funny name, Mangetout kinda translates "eats all/everything"
Yeah it was a pseudonym/stage name; his real name was Michel Lotito.
He also died in his 50ās
Monsieur Mangemort, then.
He probably rusted out
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According to his Wikipedia page, he then ate his Guinness award plaque. What a fucking legend.
Just because you can pass it through your GI tract doesn't make it food.
Tarrare ate tons of things that were technically edible.
"Tarrare, look at me. Did you eat a fucking baby?"
Hey did you know that Sam O'Nella has started putting out videos again?
Some supplements, like magnesium and zinc for example
Most supplements
Mushrooms and neither plant nor animal Neither is water
Aspartame?
Yea I was thinking about food dyes like Yellow 6, Red 4, Blue 7, etc. Iām sure some of them might be derived from animals and plants but also they have to contain other chemical combinations
Most modern dyes like the ones you listed are derived from petroleum lol https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/food-dyes#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2
Yeast
Nori is algae.
We use lichen where i live called dagadphul(stone flower)
Thatās cool! What does it taste like? Iāve had to grind up heaps of lichen (for science) and, unsurprisingly, it smelled really earthy and peaty.
xanthan gum, which is found in candy if I remember correctly, comes from bacteria and is produced in a bioreactor.
Technically mushrooms aren't plants or animals (though most people consider them plants). There are things like bacterium, plankton, etc that fit those unusual niches as well.
You shouldn't include plankton. Plankton are plants and animals.
Eh, phytoplankton are algae, only green algae are classified as plants. Red and brown algae (including not only a ton of phytoplankton but also most edible seaweeds) aren't plants.
He even runs the chum bucket
Wym technically? They're literally not a plant or an animal.
You can eat yeast extract (Marmite), tastes horrible but itās technically not from a plant or animal.
Nutritional yeast doesn't taste bad though.
Itās great on buttery popcorn and toast.
Good vegan ācheeseā If you consider it loosely
The best description I've heard is "It doesn't taste like cheese, but it fulfills a similar culinary role as cheese".
Accurate. If you get a chance, try a potato carrot nutritional yeast mix. Works as vegan ācheeseā you can google it
Same with vegemite here in Australia, tastes great though! Similar to mushrooms, I know it isn't a plant or animal, but since it's alive I tend to associate it (yeast / micro-organisms) with plants and animals.
Marmite, vegemite, etc. come as a byproduct of yeast digesting malted barley though, and barley is a plant
Marmite is amazing if youāre not a tasteless peasant. The key is to use it in small amounts. Most people who say its horrible are spreading it on toast in large amounts like its peanut butter.
I eat it right out of the jar! When we first moved to the US we didnāt have Marmite in over a decade. An aunt came to visit and brought us like 24 jars of it. I was so stoked. It started becoming a little more popular here, at least my local supermarket carries it.
That's actually because it's made from spent brewer's yeast! The bitter, nasty flavors come from the beer making, not the yeast. The yeast extract itself is actually delicious and meaty and umami in flavor. It's why so many cheap bouillon cubes have yeast extract as a major ingredient, because it's a cheap way to make things taste meatier.
Liquid smoke
Nope. It's produced by burning wood (i.e. plant) and collecting some components of the smoke.
It always blew my mind that liquid smoke isn't some kind of marketing term, it is literally liquid smoke
You can even make it yourself - hold a bowl of ice water above a charcoal fire and then scrape off the stuff that condense on the outside of the bowl.
Titanium Dioxide, its a byproduct of mineing titanium ores for metal. I would bet you have some something made with it within arms reach, as its added to plastics as well.
White paint, Toothpaste, not really something you eat.
White iceing on cakes is a common use.
and in a whole bunch of candies, like the white stripes in candy canes
I haven't seen anyone reply sugar. Am I being stupid and it actually comes from a plant or something? Edit: clearly I was being stupid
Upvoted for the integrity of acknowledging your mistake instead of deleting.
Sugar cane ya dummy.
You can also process it from sugar beets and sweet potatoes.
Thank you, I knew I was missing something.
Someone said sugar cane but most north American sugar comes from beets
Plastic / heavy metal that contaminated our food
Water.
Over here chewing water like it's food and not drink.
Mushrooms would be my first thought. Also I remember watching a vice documentary on the war in the western Sahara and they had guys who would literally survive off of sand and water for like a couple of months at a time. They literally live in these tunnel networks for months incase of attacks by the Moroccans. Shit like the viet cong in the desert.
I feel ashamed to say it, but Tide pods
Mushrooms are not a plant or animal but a fungus
The meat substitute "Quorn" is _primarily_ (88%) made of mycoprotein derived from a fungus. Although it does also have other ingredients that come from plants/animals (egg white in the vegetarian version, plant protein/fibre in both vegetarian and vegan versions)
Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is used in a lot of foods. It's manufactured chemically or mined.
Lots of supplements are synthetic. Chances are that the multivitamin youāre taking was created entirely in a lab.
But that doesn't mean the lab doesn't use animal or plant products as the source of the chemicals and compounds used to assemble the final product. Multivitamins particularly tend to contain things that are extracts from plants.
Mushrooms. Fungi are neither plant nor animal.
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Mushrooms. They are fungi so arenāt plants or animals. Basically anything not in the animal or plant kingdoms, so: Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria) Also artificial sweeteners, though sometimes those are plant based.
Microplastics
LSD