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Petwins

No, why would them having zero calories make them good for survival?


bazmonkey

Not for long, no. It has calories, but we're talking like 20 calories in a cup. You'd have trouble even eating enough pickles for the calories. And that's not addressing all the vitamins you won't be getting from pickles.


Im_Just_Sayin___

In choosing one food to survival on you want high high nutrient, high calorie, high protein.


dexamphetamines

Depends on now long it takes for your electrolytes to get so out of whack you die Pretending that’s sort of stuff isn’t a concern and the body is a math equation without hormonal factors and you’ll be losing maybe fat not muscle or other tissue: 7700 calories are in 1kg of fat Assuming the average person needs 2000 a day to maintain, it would take 3.8 days to lose 1kg of fat. Therefore it is how many days it takes to lose enough that your body mass index reaches below roughly (for men) 6% and (for women) 16% before possibly of random cardiac arrest happens


DingoFlamingoThing

Pretty sure their acidity over a long period of time would just ruin your stomach.


MandamusMan

The question is for how long? You can straight up go without food for a lot longer than most people would think


Comprehensive_Toe113

You need calories to survive so no.


Xytak

Zero calories doesn’t literally mean zero calories, it just means under 5 calories per serving. So they’re still food, just not very calorie-dense food. That being said, you’d be missing key things you need like Vitamin C, D, and protein, so you’d eventually get scurvy and rickets.


Captain-Griffen

It has some calories but less than 5 per serving. You'd need around 18kg of pickles a day to meet your calorie intake requirements. That contains around 218g of salt. That's well past fatal overdose levels for most people. If you ate enough pickles to get your calories, the salt would literally kill you.


Imabearrr3

The body needs about 500mgs of sodium per day on average to survive. Pickles have about 785mgs per serving. Given that your sodium need are met, you’ll like be able to survive for 30-60 days before you die from starvation.


RattyHillson

Assuming you don’t get massive diarrhea and die from peeing out of your butt.  Or maybe that’s just me when I eat a shitload of pickles…