If you took enough vitamins everyday, could you live without food?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Many people take vitamins along with the normal food they eat in a day. But what if you ate ONLY vitamins? Could you survive? We asked Craig Sherwin from the biotechnology company Novozymes to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:03.2	Moment of um.
0:05.2	Um, um.
0:08.0	Moment of um comes to you from APm studios.
0:10.4	I'm Anna Wegal.
0:11.6	Um. Have I ever told you about my friend Troy?
0:16.0	I love Troy.
0:17.0	He's a geologist which means he studies rocks.
0:20.0	Troy also rocks as a person.
0:22.0	He was a bridesmaid in my wedding. He as a person.
0:22.8	He was a bridesmaid in my wedding.
0:24.6	He has a puppy named Rosie, and he's always up to something interesting.
0:28.9	A few years ago, he was really, really busy with school and work and life, and he hardly had time in the day to even
0:34.3	make himself a simple meal. So he read about this special powder drink that turns into a
0:39.0	vitamin-filled shake when you add water and he, perfect, now I can just slurp up
0:44.1	this vitamin shake whenever I'm hungry
0:45.8	instead of spending all that time cooking.
0:48.2	Pretty soon, though, he missed food.
0:50.5	I was relieved when he went back to eating real food but it begs the question
0:53.7	could a person eat nothing but vitamins and survive we heard from a few
0:58.0	listeners wondering about the same thing. I'm Heidi I'm Alice I'm owner I'm Naomi and we're from Cleveland, Utah and our question is if you took enough
1:06.6	vitamins every day could you live without food.
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