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8note 10 hours ago

why have the bacon at all when you could just eat straight protein powder or soylent though?

if you get both the nitrates and vitamin c from the cellery seeds, why bother going through the industrial processes for making the nitrates and vitamic c separate, possibly also from celery seeds, only to put them back together at the end?

gruez 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It's almost certainly cheaper to synthesize nitrates and vitamin C separately than to farm celery seeds.

>possibly also from celery seeds

It's not. Like MSG (the white crystal kind), vitamin C is produced by microbes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Productio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstein_process