PC 7 Days to Diet

[Professor-Pip]

Do you think you could survive for a week in real life on the foods and drinks we can cook in-game?

For a week, sure. Longer...maybe not. We don't have any actual citrus in the game and I don't know how much Vitamin C there is in Red or Goldenrod tea. Scurvy could become a serious issue. Maybe if you found enough vitamins and took them regularly you could keep it at bay. I also feel like there's a lack of green vegetables in the game for a healthy diet, but I expect you could survive for a while on the game's diet.

 

[Javabean867]

For a week, sure. Longer...maybe not. We don't have any actual citrus in the game and I don't know how much Vitamin C there is in Red or Goldenrod tea. Scurvy could become a serious issue. Maybe if you found enough vitamins and took them regularly you could keep it at bay. I also feel like there's a lack of green vegetables in the game for a healthy diet, but I expect you could survive for a while on the game's diet.

Potatoes supposedly have a lot of vitamin c.

 

[theFlu]

We don't have any actual citrus in the game and I don't know how much Vitamin C there is in

There's sufficient Vit C just straight up in fresh meat. Not exactly surprising, given that any animal has to have sufficient vitamin C to function itself. For scurvy, in historic times, fresh meat was actually considered a cure for it. Ship crews lived off of ship biscuits, essentially a bread that was baked multiple times to give it a good "shelf life", destroying any fragile nutrients in the process. The freshest thing the sailors had, was the bugs on the bread...

There's plenty enough of long term (decade and over and some even multiples) carnivores out there by now to confidently say that humans don't really need a single vegetable, ever.

 

[Professor-Pip]

I wasn't aware Potatoes and Fresh Meat were a sufficient source of Vitamin C! Now I do. But with such a limited diet, I still wonder if there's enough variety to give you enough of the necessary vitamins to stave off deficiencies. But maybe in canned goods and the in-game vitamins. Not a nutritionist. 

 

[Riamus]

I wasn't aware Potatoes and Fresh Meat were a sufficient source of Vitamin C! Now I do. But with such a limited diet, I still wonder if there's enough variety to give you enough of the necessary vitamins to stave off deficiencies. But maybe in canned goods and the in-game vitamins. Not a nutritionist. 

Most people would be far healthier living off the fresh meat and vegetables in the game than they are living off the processed food most of us eat every day.

 

[theFlu]

I still wonder if there's enough variety to give you enough of the necessary vitamins to stave off deficiencies.

That's a fair worry, but yes. An egg is liquid that turns into a fully developed chicken. Bones, skin, nerves, muscles and all. It has to have everything to not just maintain, but to build and operate all tissues, within it. Similarly, muscle meat of a mammal contains everything a mammal needs - the ratios may be different, but you'd be consuming enough to cover it all.

If you're curious, couple ppl to check out: Kelly Hogan, Ken Berry, Shawn Baker .. all are both decent sources of info and examples of current carnivores. It's quite a rabbit hole thou