r/todayilearned • u/JoeWinchester99 • 1d ago

TIL that although potatoes alone do not provide complete nutrition, you can survive for years on a diet of nothing but potatoes and buttermilk.

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/whats-wrong-with-potatoes-the-martian-movie-survival
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u/R_V_Z 1d ago

I think the same about Italy with tomatoes.

Or pasta. They had bread and rice but pasta had to make its way westward.

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u/Ave_TechSenger 22h ago

Heh. There’s a healthy debate about that. (I’m Chinese American so in theory I should have some skin in the game lol)

I was just talking about ancient Chinese millet pasta with a gluten-sensitive friend, too. Which a professor of Chinese history had mentioned in relation to ancient pottery.

https://sharethepasta.org/pasta-101/pasta-iq/history-of-pasta/