Food limits
Feb. 5th, 2008 08:24 pmIt seems that the senses of taste and smell are finely honed to ensure you eat the right amount of a particular food. For example, if you keep eating bananas, the taste will go from good to icky to vomit-inducing. It's your body's way of telling you that you've just ingested too much of a particular chemical and that it's time to stop. What's good in small doses is bad in large doses.
Because I get large quantities of veggies from![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
frogpyjamas, I've been exploring the limits of good taste in a literal sense. I've established some "food limits" which I somehow feel compelled to share.
Here's how much you can eat in one sitting before the taste goes bad.
The banana limit is 3.
The persimmon limit is 3.
The mandarin orange limit is about 15.
The raw broccoli limit is 1/2 a head.
The cooked baby bok choy limit is 3.
The raw cabbage limit is 1/8 a head. Very low.
The cooked leek limit is 3. This is not necessarily a good thing as you will smell like leek for several days.
Also...
The milk limit is 1/2 a gallon.
The beef limit is 25 oz. Surprisingly high. Perhaps that's because in caveman days, we'd make a kill of some large animal, and we'd have to eat it all before it went bad.
The ice cream limit... well, it seems that desserts and some junk foods seem to be extremely good at suppressing our taste limits. Is that by accident or is it the result of some clever food engineering? I once ate half a birthday cake over the course of an hour. I felt fine at the time, but I later had a huge stomachache.
Because I get large quantities of veggies from
frogpyjamas, I've been exploring the limits of good taste in a literal sense. I've established some "food limits" which I somehow feel compelled to share. Here's how much you can eat in one sitting before the taste goes bad.
The banana limit is 3.
The persimmon limit is 3.
The mandarin orange limit is about 15.
The raw broccoli limit is 1/2 a head.
The cooked baby bok choy limit is 3.
The raw cabbage limit is 1/8 a head. Very low.
The cooked leek limit is 3. This is not necessarily a good thing as you will smell like leek for several days.
Also...
The milk limit is 1/2 a gallon.
The beef limit is 25 oz. Surprisingly high. Perhaps that's because in caveman days, we'd make a kill of some large animal, and we'd have to eat it all before it went bad.
The ice cream limit... well, it seems that desserts and some junk foods seem to be extremely good at suppressing our taste limits. Is that by accident or is it the result of some clever food engineering? I once ate half a birthday cake over the course of an hour. I felt fine at the time, but I later had a huge stomachache.
