[nutrifiedrock9]

You bring up a great point, and the article linked does indeed mention this in on of it's core goals:

>3. Be Safe! Maintain and track nutrition, get enough calories, and don't eat rotten food.

[tomxor]

Still, it's at odds with the premise. A more compatible goal would be to minimise cost of nutritional value rather than cost of calories. Unfortunately this is very hard to measure, so the best we have is to gauge it by proxy.

[thomquaid]

Did the engineer end up malnourished? If not...

[tomxor]

check back in 30 to 40 years. Also good luck measuring quality of life in the interim, and establishing a controlled baseline.