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Re:The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf] by frankosaurus on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:07AM (#19594769)
Nutrition per dollar numbers are a bit dubious. https://efficiencyiseverything.com/food-nutrition-per-dollar... Flour tends to beat everything since it is so cheap. For example, flour has 83.3 mg of iron per dollar. However, if you tried to hit your DRI for iron using flour, you would greatly exceed your daily caloric intake.

One could argue just using a vitamin pill for micronutrients, and optimizing protein/dollar for macros.

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Re:The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf] by robertAngst on Sunday April 07, 2019 @12:39PM (#19597949)
I hope that using Linear Algebra I can make flour useful.

Current plan is to collect the data, match it to recommended amounts of nutrients/calories/etc... and see what the outcome is.

I fantasize that it tells me to eat ~50 calories of flour a day, but until the equations are finished its merely an outlier.

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