Originally Posted by
Rick
Why do you assume that's all you'll eat? I have canned meat that I can add to the meal as well as canned veggies, cheese, butter and canned fruit. I don't assume it's the only thing I'll eat just a convenient way to store some of my food.
Because that is how it is marketed. It is sold as a 30 day supply of food, not a component in a 30 day supply of food. Worse, bigger kits are are sold as a year's supply. 30 days you might get away with. And it has empty calories which make it that much harder to satisfy your nutrition requirements from other foods.
Rice is pretty much rice and rolled oats is pretty much rolled oats no matter where you buy it.
Brown rice is food, white rice is junk food.
Code:
RICE,WHITE,LONG-GRAIN,REGULAR,COOKED,UNENRICHED,WITHOUT SLT Grams 226.80
Serving: 8 oz Ounces 8.00
Water 68.44%
Percentages of "Daily Values" in this serving: Refuse 0%
Calories(2000) 15% Total Carb 21% Protein 12%
Carb/Prot/Fat 90/8/2 Fiber 4% Non-Fiber Carb 63g
Total Fat 1% Vitamin A 0% Calcium 2%
Sat Fat 1% Thiamin 3% Copper 8%
Mono Fat 1% Riboflavin 2% Iron 3%
Poly Fat 2% Niacin 5% Magnesium 7%
Omega-6 3% Panto. Acid 9% Manganese 54%
LA 3% Vitamin B-6 11% Phosphorus 10%
AA 0% Folate 2% Potassium 2%
Omega-3 1% Vitamin B-12 0% Selenium 24%
ALA 1% Vitamin C 0% Sodium 0%
EPA 0% Vitamin D (nd) Zinc 7%
DHA 0% Vitamin E 0%
Cholesterol 0% Vitamin K 0% Omega-6/3 Balance 64/36
RICE,BROWN,LONG-GRAIN,COOKED Grams 226.80
Serving: 8 oz Ounces 8.00
Water 73.09%
Percentages of "Daily Values" in this serving: Refuse 0%
Calories(2000) 13% Total Carb 17% Protein 12%
Carb/Prot/Fat 85/8/7 Fiber 16% Non-Fiber Carb 48g
Total Fat 3% Vitamin A 0% Calcium 2%
Sat Fat 2% Thiamin 15% Copper 11%
Mono Fat 2% Riboflavin 3% Iron 5%
Poly Fat 9% Niacin 17% Magnesium 24%
Omega-6 15% Panto. Acid 6% Manganese 103%
LA 16% Vitamin B-6 16% Phosphorus 19%
AA 0% Folate 2% Potassium 3%
Omega-3 1% Vitamin B-12 0% Selenium 32%
ALA 1% Vitamin C 0% Sodium 0%
EPA 0% Vitamin D (nd) Zinc 10%
DHA 0% Vitamin E 0%
Cholesterol 0% Vitamin K 2% Omega-6/3 Balance 75/25
In addition, there are differences in anti-oxidant/phytonutrient/phenol/lignan content.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...spice&dbid=128
Rolled oats are generally whole grain. However the process of making rolled oats does damage the tocopherols and tocotrienols (Vitamin E). http://www.aaccnet.org/cerealchemist...1995/72_21.pdf http://www.cib.espol.edu.ec/Digipath/D_Papers/43760.pdf Unfortunately, I am allergic to oats. Lots of these survival rations are heavy on the oats. But the oats are good for some people with other grain allergies
For comparison, I added up the same 4 nutrients for 6 assorted bags of bear creek brand dehydrated soup mixes ($3/bag at big lots). This is not sold as survival food so they can pass the buck for your nutritional deficiencies to the rest of your diet. It was only 3 days worth of calories and about twice the cost per day but was more complete nutritionally than the 30 day bucket. The bucket has an artificially low cost per day because the actual food is padded out with empty calories to artificially increase the number of days. Cheaper than backpacker foods. Mountain house charges $5.90 to $7.50 for about 600 calories (or around $20/day) and doesn't give A/C/Ca/Fe content on their web site. The bear creek provided an average 92% average nutrient density for these 4 nutrients. The 30 day bucket averaged 47%. So, calories aside, the cost per nutrient was about the same since the 30 day bucket provides an average 14 days nutrition; worse since it effectively gives you 16 days of starvation on a full stomach.
Code:
item servings calories A C Ca Fe
navy bean 8 130 6 6 4 8
minestrone 8 110 20 8 4 6
tortilla 8 90 6 6 2 4
chili 8 80 4 2 6 10
chicken noodle 8 120 10 4 2 6
creamy potato 8 150 0 6 2 2
days worth 2.92 3.68 2.56 1.6 2.88
the chili is meant to be prepared with a can of tomato paste and optionally ground beef but these were not included in nutrients.
Nut-nutrition software has a mode where it can try to estimate the unlabeled nutrients by guessing the recipe using the constraints that an ingredient can't be present in higher quantity than the items listed higher on the label or in a quantity that would cause a higher value of the labeled nutrients. It is a pain to enter all the ingredients and match them to foods in the database. Here is the result for one of the mixes. Most nutrients had an estimated nutrient density (%RDA/%calories) greater than 100% except for fats, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, B-12, D, and calcium. Sodium (labeled), however, was very excessive (it also looks excessive on the bucket).
Code:
SOUP MIX, NAVY BEAN, BEAR CREEK, 7-60263-00028-4 Grams 38.00
Serving: 1 cup Ounces 1.34
Water 8.90%
Percentages of "Daily Values" in this serving: Refuse 0%
Calories(2000) 6% Total Carb 9% Protein 10%
Carb/Prot/Fat 81/16/4 Fiber 16% Non-Fiber Carb 22g
Total Fat 1% Vitamin A 6% Calcium 4%
Sat Fat 1% Thiamin 14% Copper 13%
Mono Fat 0% Riboflavin 4% Iron 8%
Poly Fat 2% Niacin 4% Magnesium 13%
Omega-6 2% Panto. Acid 4% Manganese 21%
LA 2% Vitamin B-6 9% Phosphorus 14%
AA 0% Folate 32% Potassium 12%
Omega-3 0% Vitamin B-12 0% Selenium 6%
ALA 0% Vitamin C 6% Sodium 39%
EPA 0% Vitamin D (nd) Zinc 5%
DHA 0% Vitamin E 0%
Cholesterol 0% Vitamin K 2% Omega-6/3 Balance 73/27
http://nut.sourceforge.net/
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