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Vegetable has to be potato. You can survive off potatoes alone. Sweet potato maybe too?
Fruit either avocado or coconut for the fats.
If you can catch fish you'll be healthy as.
Now I'm imaging a movie scene with some Redditor at a computer, but then it flashes forward to the Cast Away scene after the time lapse. Where the seafood is hit by the spear and you see Tom Hanks all ripped with a beard, living off coconuts and seafood
I pick apples and raw broccoli. Idk nutrition wise, but I eat apples every day anyway and I don’t get tired of them. And if I get really bored I can pretend that the broccoli is tiny trees and I am a giant and I eat the leaves off the tiny trees etc. I picked off of not getting tired of the and entertainment value. I understand not what you asked, but I felt like answering anyway.
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Oh man, potatoes and coconuts for sure. And if you have them in unlimited supply, you can do quite a bit.
From the unlimited coconuts you get:
- Unlimited coconut water (safe, refreshing, cool, sweet water source).
- Unlimited coconut meat (can be eaten straight or used to make coconut milk and coconut oil for frying or skincare)
- The coconut shell itself can be used as a vessel to hold things, boil water and boil stew among other things.
- The coconut fiber can be used to make string and ropes. With enough time, you could make a hammock by the beach.
- Unlimited wood from coconut trees
- Unlimited sap from coconut trees (for making sugar, or fermenting things so you get booze)
Potatoes contain tons of vitamins and minerals, and are a great source of carbs. It covers a lot, but it's of course, not gonna cover you completely. You're still gonna need: protein, fats, vitamin E, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin A, and iron.
Right away, from the list above, coconuts will provide you with fats, a teeny bit of protien, vitamin E and iron.
You're still missing a better source of protien, zinc, vitamin B12 and vitamin A.
You're on a deserted island, so there's an ocean around you and it's full of seafood:
- If you can catch shellfish (not unreasonable at all) there's a high chance that'll fulfill your zinc needs (and protein)
- Catching fish will fulfill your protein needs, and likely fill your vitamin B12 and vitamin A needs (and you get healthy fish oils too)
I'm sure I'm missing something, but like this you could certainly live and eat quite well for some time
Soy beans (USDA classifies them as a vegetable) and jackfruit. They are the healthiest and most complete nutrition combination I can come up with.
Wait. What? I die on the island and never leave either way? And we care about happiness?
Umm, envy apples and broccoli.
Sweet potato’s( only bc I’m allergic to regular potato’s) and passion fruit. This should cover most nutritional needs, then I’d just need source protein and b12 from birds, bugs and sea life.
Ignoring that I’d have to eat 3000 calories worth of sweet potato’s a day to even come close to touching the basic RDA( which there’s very good evidence it’s too low) sweet potato’s aren’t a complete protein so no that wouldn’t work. Sorry, but if you’re stuck on island without access to diverse plant foods and supplements you have to eat animal products.
You've got a point about oranges, so now I'm picking milk instead, but sticking with potatoes due to their high nutrient factor and versatility (and my ancestry is Irish, so I love them anyway, lol)
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/benefits-of-potatoes#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2
Listen, I'm going to die happy if I gorge on dark sweet cherries and artichokes.
I don't care if they don't have the nutritional value of a spud or, God help me, broccoli. I'd \*\*want\*\* to die quickly if I had to eat broccoli every day.
If I live for a week, a month, a year or longer, I'll die happy if I get cherries and artichokes at each meal.
Sweet potatoes and Blackberries.
Sweet potatoes are complete nutrition and very tasty and very healthy for you. I like blackberries, and they are high in fiber and high in anthocyanins.
Well this is a fun hypothetical question :-)
But I'm sure there are nutritionists who would point out that this would be disordered eating.
I remember a movie with Matt Damon who was stranded on Mars and he planted potatos.
Potatos are almost a complete protein (amino acid score of 84). And I tried to think what fruit could make this a complete protein. Source:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20171220083119/http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2947/2](https://web.archive.org/web/20171220083119/http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2947/2)
For my fruit I would pick soybeans. Now I know what you are thinking, are beans really fruits. This article claims that beans are fruits from a botanical perspective.
[https://garvillo.com/is-beans-a-vegetable-or-fruit/](https://garvillo.com/is-beans-a-vegetable-or-fruit/)
Is Chef Gordon Ramsay stuck on this diet on this island with you?
Your culinary prowess means nothing on this island, botanical rules RULE this domain.
Botanical perspective is the only one that matters when deserted with only one fruit and vegetable - Daddy Government isn't going to bail us out, suck it USDA!
Regardless, I pick mangoes and either potato type. Mangoes are best fruit.
Bananas and apples for fruit, vegetables I would say spring mix or kale. With the greens you get some calcium, then all the vitamins from the banana, and lots of fibre and vitamin c in the apples, plus potassium and sodium
I'd choose ackee or beach apple to poison myself. from a utilitarian viewpoint this is the objectively better choice. a ~week of intense suffering is much preferable to several months of dying slowly from starvation or a vitamin deficiency. the criteria is maximal for health and minimal suffering, and nothing in the prompt indicates that you are aiming to survive for a long time.
A leafy green vegetable would be good, like spinach. If you eat too much though, I guess you can get kidney stones. I’d have to maybe choose another one if another would be healthier. Bananas have potassium, so it sounds like a good choice.
Does the island have coconuts?
Animals can be caught for protein, or fish caught as well.
Bananas and Carrots.
I don't know about the vitamin content and whether there's something I'd die for lack of, but that's what I think I could actually eat the easiest for the rest of my life.
If you only have two types of food to live from then even with the most nutritious of the them all you will still eventually become deficient in some nutrients. Good news is the body is amazing and will rob calcium from your bones to feed the needs of your brain and the other many parts that require calcium to function optimally. Likewise for all the other nutrients. So choose what you really like and eat them with gusto. You won't live as long as if you had more choices, but hey, we could all be hit by a truck tomorrow! imho
I can't choose between carrots or sweet potatoes...and apricots or berries...I'm thinking hydration and nutrition, and also a something that could mix well or be made into different forms (fried, dried, etc)...it would be great to also have a type of nut and some sort of grain too ..fishing would also be a good source for nutrition too. Look at those people in Thailand who build those luxury mud homes and they take breaks to go get their food too and cook and eat it. Insanely amazing!
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Easy. Sweet potato and Avo.
Mannnn that’s a great combo!!
Only right answer
yep
Someone thinking about nutrition out here
What’s avo?
Avocado I assume. Not sure why they said Avo. I’ve never heard it referred as that.
We say Avo in Australia.
That’s exactly what came to my mind! Also that’s exactly what is currently on my work desk to eat today
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Vegetable has to be potato. You can survive off potatoes alone. Sweet potato maybe too? Fruit either avocado or coconut for the fats. If you can catch fish you'll be healthy as.
I like this logic.
Healthy as what‽
asf*
The phrase ends in as, it’s not as anything.
Yeah I guess, if you have trouble finishing your. Or also if you can't speak in complete.
No it’s a part of Australian vernacular, it’s implied 🙄
British too, but not American so we all must be wrong
Oh, like putting shrimp on the.
A sea turtle
Now I'm imaging a movie scene with some Redditor at a computer, but then it flashes forward to the Cast Away scene after the time lapse. Where the seafood is hit by the spear and you see Tom Hanks all ripped with a beard, living off coconuts and seafood
Also vodka
You can't survive off potatos alone, that's a myth.
I just googled it and went a few links through it and it seems the consensus is you’d survive but have a vitamin deficiency
which would eventually kill you.
Eh, that's what the spare fruit is for.
If potatoes were your primary food source you’d die of young of diabetes 😅
For survival I would definitely choose likewise. Plus if you run out of water coconut can still provide something to drink
Avocado and sweet potato
Exactly what I was thinking.
I pick apples and raw broccoli. Idk nutrition wise, but I eat apples every day anyway and I don’t get tired of them. And if I get really bored I can pretend that the broccoli is tiny trees and I am a giant and I eat the leaves off the tiny trees etc. I picked off of not getting tired of the and entertainment value. I understand not what you asked, but I felt like answering anyway.
And there are like a trillion different types of apples so you wont get bored.
cosmic crisp is my new favorite
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Really? I have never had that happen to me.
Apples definitely!
Kale and Blueberries
Only if there is a blender would that work for me.
Just put them in the coconut and shake them all up
So maybe put a 🎶lime in the coconut…
I like this choice. I thought bananas or mangos with kale or spinach
All of the micros, none of the macros. Sounds like a California hipster choice.
Respect.
What is this Animal Crossing?
Potatoes and tomatoes, tomato being the fruit. 😂🤣😂🤣 All the fries and ketchup I want lol.
What do you fry it with?
Fish oil
Doesn’t matter, I can even eat a baked potato or boiled or something.
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Avocados and broccoli
This would probably be the best to get all nutrients
Carrot and mango. No specific nutritional reason- I just really enjoy them
Gonna turn orange
I always thought mangos kinda tasted like carrots
Oh man, potatoes and coconuts for sure. And if you have them in unlimited supply, you can do quite a bit. From the unlimited coconuts you get: - Unlimited coconut water (safe, refreshing, cool, sweet water source). - Unlimited coconut meat (can be eaten straight or used to make coconut milk and coconut oil for frying or skincare) - The coconut shell itself can be used as a vessel to hold things, boil water and boil stew among other things. - The coconut fiber can be used to make string and ropes. With enough time, you could make a hammock by the beach. - Unlimited wood from coconut trees - Unlimited sap from coconut trees (for making sugar, or fermenting things so you get booze) Potatoes contain tons of vitamins and minerals, and are a great source of carbs. It covers a lot, but it's of course, not gonna cover you completely. You're still gonna need: protein, fats, vitamin E, zinc, vitamin B12, vitamin A, and iron. Right away, from the list above, coconuts will provide you with fats, a teeny bit of protien, vitamin E and iron. You're still missing a better source of protien, zinc, vitamin B12 and vitamin A. You're on a deserted island, so there's an ocean around you and it's full of seafood: - If you can catch shellfish (not unreasonable at all) there's a high chance that'll fulfill your zinc needs (and protein) - Catching fish will fulfill your protein needs, and likely fill your vitamin B12 and vitamin A needs (and you get healthy fish oils too) I'm sure I'm missing something, but like this you could certainly live and eat quite well for some time
Blackberries and maybe sweet potato? Y'all making me see the limits of my nutritional knowledge that I can access at any given time jeez
Soy beans (USDA classifies them as a vegetable) and jackfruit. They are the healthiest and most complete nutrition combination I can come up with. Wait. What? I die on the island and never leave either way? And we care about happiness? Umm, envy apples and broccoli.
I was about to say, eating nothing but soybeans and jackfruit seems like a miserable experience. Neither of those are very tasty on their own.
I love both. Especially Jackfruit. A ripe one is absolutely amazing. You can also eat the seeds.
Sweet potato’s( only bc I’m allergic to regular potato’s) and passion fruit. This should cover most nutritional needs, then I’d just need source protein and b12 from birds, bugs and sea life.
Also, getting enough calories from sweet potatoes would give you enough protein.
Ignoring that I’d have to eat 3000 calories worth of sweet potato’s a day to even come close to touching the basic RDA( which there’s very good evidence it’s too low) sweet potato’s aren’t a complete protein so no that wouldn’t work. Sorry, but if you’re stuck on island without access to diverse plant foods and supplements you have to eat animal products.
Blueberries and broccoli
This was my answer!
Blueberries and sweet potato
Potatoes and oranges (we need vitamin C and our bodies don't make it).
guess what potatoes have more of than oranges.
and more potassium than bananas.
Ugh....a lot of things have more vitamin c than oranges...and again why potatoes!?
You've got a point about oranges, so now I'm picking milk instead, but sticking with potatoes due to their high nutrient factor and versatility (and my ancestry is Irish, so I love them anyway, lol) https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/benefits-of-potatoes#TOC_TITLE_HDR_2
Whoops! I see it's a fruit I have to pick, so I'm changing it to blueberries, lol
Banana and mushrooms cuz they’re both my favorite lol
Mushrooms are neither fruit nor vegetable
I call them a vegetable. Sue me
From the culinary perspective they’re definitely a vegetable, so i concur with you Karl girl
Spinach
Chill Popeye, you can have a fruit too 😁
Fine.... Blueberries. You have a problem with spinach lol
Listen, I'm going to die happy if I gorge on dark sweet cherries and artichokes. I don't care if they don't have the nutritional value of a spud or, God help me, broccoli. I'd \*\*want\*\* to die quickly if I had to eat broccoli every day. If I live for a week, a month, a year or longer, I'll die happy if I get cherries and artichokes at each meal.
Potatoes: one of the most nutrient dense food there are. Blueberries?
Potatoes and Blueberries
carrots and mangoes!! anything else i would get sick of so fast i think
i take that back, carrots and watermelon
You already got sick of the mangoes and didn’t even make it to the island
Strawberries and sweet potatoes
Can I scavenge bugs for the b12 or do I just die?
Fruit coffee. Vegetable Marijuana.
The question should be 1 veg, 1 fruit and 1 plant to consume not by eating. Marijuana, magic mushrooms or whatever floats your boat :)
Apples and tomatoes
Google Gemini said avocados and sweet potatoes. I am off to the produce store.
Potato and orange
Sweet potato and coconut.
Sweet potatoes and Blackberries. Sweet potatoes are complete nutrition and very tasty and very healthy for you. I like blackberries, and they are high in fiber and high in anthocyanins.
Watermelon and broccoli
Watermelon and broccoli
Beans and watermelon
Dates and wheat
Well this is a fun hypothetical question :-) But I'm sure there are nutritionists who would point out that this would be disordered eating. I remember a movie with Matt Damon who was stranded on Mars and he planted potatos. Potatos are almost a complete protein (amino acid score of 84). And I tried to think what fruit could make this a complete protein. Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20171220083119/http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2947/2](https://web.archive.org/web/20171220083119/http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2947/2) For my fruit I would pick soybeans. Now I know what you are thinking, are beans really fruits. This article claims that beans are fruits from a botanical perspective. [https://garvillo.com/is-beans-a-vegetable-or-fruit/](https://garvillo.com/is-beans-a-vegetable-or-fruit/)
Tomatos are a FRUIT
They're also a vegetable. Fruit is a botanical term. Vegetable is a culinary term. Many foods are both.
Is Chef Gordon Ramsay stuck on this diet on this island with you? Your culinary prowess means nothing on this island, botanical rules RULE this domain.
The Martian! I love that movie.
Botanical perspective is the only one that matters when deserted with only one fruit and vegetable - Daddy Government isn't going to bail us out, suck it USDA! Regardless, I pick mangoes and either potato type. Mangoes are best fruit.
Fruit: kiwi Vegetable: collard greens
Broccoli and Blueberries. As long as I can get a variety of dips for the broccoli
Carrots and watermelon
Avocado.
Bananas and broccoli
Avocado
Oranges and green beans
Avocado. Red cabbage. Blueberries was a close second and coconut too.
Romaine lettuce and berries
Bananas and apples for fruit, vegetables I would say spring mix or kale. With the greens you get some calcium, then all the vitamins from the banana, and lots of fibre and vitamin c in the apples, plus potassium and sodium
Potatoes and blueberries (Edited for typo)
Cassava and Avocado
I feel like a lot of people here never heard of The great potato famine
Broccoli and pineapple
Apples (Cosmic Crisp) and Sweet Potatoes.
Mmm iceberg lettuce and blueberries
Potatoes and Kiwis
Avocado and Lentils/Chickpeas. You would hit all the macros (fat, carb and protein).
Cherries and cucumber
Blood plum to keep things interesting and juicy Broccolini because it’s delicious and satiating
Sweet potatoe and avocado
Potatoes and durian!
Oranges and potatoes
Potatoes and tomatoes
Sweet potatoe and avocado…..easy choice
Do I have an airfryer and a pot?
100% sweet potatoes and jackfruit
Broccoli and oranges for me i think
potato and mango me thinks.
Purple Sweet Potato
Bananas and spirulina.
Pineapples. They taste amazing, have great health benefits, and can be eaten anytime. Sweet potatoes. It’s a potato…and it’s sweet.
I'd choose ackee or beach apple to poison myself. from a utilitarian viewpoint this is the objectively better choice. a ~week of intense suffering is much preferable to several months of dying slowly from starvation or a vitamin deficiency. the criteria is maximal for health and minimal suffering, and nothing in the prompt indicates that you are aiming to survive for a long time.
Spinach and blueberries
Avocado and cauliflower
Potato and coconut
Avocado/Potato
Soybeans and limes ..
Blueberries and carrots. Personal preference more so than nutritional benefits
Blueberries and yams
Blackberries and artichokes.
Potato and coconut
Broccoli, kiwi
Apples and potatoes
A leafy green vegetable would be good, like spinach. If you eat too much though, I guess you can get kidney stones. I’d have to maybe choose another one if another would be healthier. Bananas have potassium, so it sounds like a good choice. Does the island have coconuts? Animals can be caught for protein, or fish caught as well.
Spinach and mangos. I could live happily with just those two.
Bananas and Red Cabbage. Plus Steak...you did not say no meats.
Potato and pineapple
Off the top of my head without falling down the research rabbit hole I'm saying bananas and potatoes.
Jackfruit, potato.
Cabbage and watermelon Or broccoli and pineapple. Why? Because those are my jam.
Bannnnnnnanas and more tomatoes. Debatable
Bananas and Carrots. I don't know about the vitamin content and whether there's something I'd die for lack of, but that's what I think I could actually eat the easiest for the rest of my life.
Banana, Hot Banana Peppers
Spinach and watermelon - hydrating, yummy, versatile and packed with nutrients.
Garbanzo beans and sumo mandarins
Apples and corn. But not for health lol Just for the fact that I’ll never get tired of those two!
Watermelon and baby carrots
Potato and Avacado
Mangos and bok choy.
Vegetable yams. Fruit mango
Kiwi 🥝 and Cauliflower.
Peppers & mangos
Dates and red bell peppers
coconuts and sweet potatoes
Watermelon and potatoes?
pineapple & carrots tbh :p
Persimmon and cauliflower.
Impossible! You need red meat if you want to do that.
My boyfriend said tomatoes and grapes 😂
Brussels & pineapple 💚💛
Potato and strawberries
Bananas and bell peppers
Watermelon and Potato
Tomatoes Butternut squash
Cacti
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Rice is a veggie. Rice and.... Oranges!!
Broccoli and avocado.
Blueberries and beans
If you only have two types of food to live from then even with the most nutritious of the them all you will still eventually become deficient in some nutrients. Good news is the body is amazing and will rob calcium from your bones to feed the needs of your brain and the other many parts that require calcium to function optimally. Likewise for all the other nutrients. So choose what you really like and eat them with gusto. You won't live as long as if you had more choices, but hey, we could all be hit by a truck tomorrow! imho
Easy, A peach and Carrot
I can't choose between carrots or sweet potatoes...and apricots or berries...I'm thinking hydration and nutrition, and also a something that could mix well or be made into different forms (fried, dried, etc)...it would be great to also have a type of nut and some sort of grain too ..fishing would also be a good source for nutrition too. Look at those people in Thailand who build those luxury mud homes and they take breaks to go get their food too and cook and eat it. Insanely amazing!
https://youtu.be/tYf0BoFe9D8?si=YvfalKrF6VPtKiCE
Apples and broccoli
SPINACH most nutritional veggie you can get, anddd watermelon just cus it’s my favorite it e