Flavor does not matter, presentation does not matter but the food shouldn’t make you sick, and should ideally have enough calories per day for the average person to survive (2000 kcal min).
Edit: I am not in any danger of starving or malnutrition, nor am I insolvent. I’m mainly asking this question out of curiosity on how people would approach a solution :)
A large segment of the population would get fat eating that much every day.
Dang, I wonder how outdated that standard is. I see it as the “daily value” in a lot of academic and packaging contexts.
It’s the general maintenance calories for a 180ish lb male if I remember correctly. I could be wrong
The standard was never really based on anything to begin with. Not scientifically speaking, anyway.
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2016-06-14/who-actually-needs-a-2-000-calorie-diet
Interesting sidebar to this, I happened to notice both the authors are/were Master’s candidates when they drafted this. Would he interested to see more