Hydroponics and Food Processing: Why the swap?

[drawar]

As someone who gardens, I disagree. Processing the food actually removes a lot of the nutrients, not adds it. They just are able to get more colories out of what would be tossed otherwise. Ugly potatoes become instant potatoes, for example.

I think the idea is that the hydroponic farms are being built instead of conventional farming, and so you're able to produce more food per farm, and thus per farmer. And then any semi-useful food goes to food processing, meaning that you now can employ more people to generate food, similar enough to farmers to consider them the same job. Farmer here is being used as a title for generic food-production jobs.

Processing doesn't necessarily remove nutrients. It depends. It can make foods more digestible.
It can eliminate toxins and anti-nutritional factors.
It can contribute to the safety of the food.

For example, there's a big difference between grinding grains to make white (unenriched) flour for white bread and grinding grains to make whole-grain flour for whole-grain bread.

For example, the native Americans practiced Nixtamalization with corn, which improved its nutritional value and prevented, for example, pellagra in people with a diet rich in corn and lacking diversity.

There are bad and good transformations, you have to know how to separate things.

 

[NorseGod]

Processing doesn't necessarily remove nutrients. It depends. It can make foods more digestible.
It can eliminate toxins and anti-nutritional factors.
It can contribute to the safety of the food.

For example, there's a big difference between grinding grains to make white (unenriched) flour for white bread and grinding grains to make whole-grain flour for whole-grain bread.

For example, the native Americans practiced Nixtamalization with corn, which improved its nutritional value and prevented, for example, pellagra in people with a diet rich in corn and lacking diversity.

There are bad and good transformations, you have to know how to separate things.

Sure. The vast majority of modern food procesing is not about making it better, however.

 

[Falrinn]

Sure. The vast majority of modern food procesing is not about making it better, however.

Perhaps. But this isn't typical modern food processing, this is SUPER SCIENCE FICTION food processing.

 

[Lazy Name]

What the hell were they processing?!

Isolated space station... No farms... All the food comes from quote-unquote "food processing plants"...

...Sounds like that's the kind of question you don't want the answer to.

 

[Newbee53]

Sure. The vast majority of modern food procesing is not about making it better, however.

depends on what you mean by better. The ability to get the food to the person eating it is better, even if the nutrition is reduced. Also, better tasting is also better.

Perhaps. But this isn't typical modern food processing, this is SUPER SCIENCE FICTION food processing.

This is also true. The blurb in the tool tip specifically says it creates more nutrient food.

 

[jedavis]

Isolated space station... No farms... All the food comes from quote-unquote "food processing plants"...

...Sounds like that's the kind of question you don't want the answer to.

Soylent green is pops! It's POPS!

 

[Friedrich von Deutschland]

Isolated space station... No farms... All the food comes from quote-unquote "food processing plants"...

...Sounds like that's the kind of question you don't want the answer to.

The "food processing" and the "waste reprocessing" centers being directly adjacent is purely coincidental, pay no heed to what goes in, only the delicious nuti-paste that comes out.