Food Pyramid

May I introduce the most excellent crunchy fruit called Pomegranate?  I can't stop eating them.  I crave the sheet-staining seeds with a jones equal to my love of Cheetos.   Too bad they lack nutrition.  Implications from Pom-Wonderful notwithstanding the vitamins are not really there in Mr. Pomegranate.

But he has a friend you know: Mr. Easy-to-make-pumpkin custard, going from grocery bag to mouth in about 89 seconds.  The recipe for pumpkin custard is this.  Open a can of pumpkin mush, add half a can of condensed milk, skip the egg, dust it with some appropriate spice, stir it exactly 11 times, and start spooning it into your mouth.  Wow, super easy and, at least partially healthful.  Check out how much vitamin A is in it and consider that I got 900% of my daily needs in jsut 24 hours of thick spoonfuls of this bacheloresque fancy dessert, nearly a fatal dose.  Vitamin A poisoning was a memorable tale from my Toxicology class at Oakland U.  You could Google it:  "polar explorer starving polar bear liver fatal".

UPDATE:  On Friday I mentioned Vitamin A poisoning at school and the math teacher, Mr. White spontaneousl weighed in : "Oh man, it's like with people who eat polar bear livers."

Comments

[Denise]

Oh Evan! The "foodie" in me grieves for your bachelor diet. Nutritional(?) though it may be- it lacks soul and depth. Look at cooking like chemistry. Your pie filling would have been much better and nutritious with and egg and some milk or the appropriate veggie substitutes. Where's your protein man?
Your hair is going to fall out, and your muscle wither away.
Nutrition is one of hobbies and the typical diet of the masses, one of my pet peeves.

[Noah]

Alas, Google tells me that my search - "polar explorer starving polar bear liver fatal" - did not match any documents.
http://macktez.com/users/noah/2006/11/polar_bear_fatal.html

[Jim Sheufelt]

Evan, I read a book about Douglas Mawson's travails in Antarctica (early 20th century) after one of his team members fell in a crevasse with most of their food. They ate their sled dogs one at time, but they were Greenland huskies, whom it turns out have similar levels of vitamin A in their livers to polar bears. It's believed that's why the other members of the party perished. So avoid the klivers of Polar bears and Greenland huskies.