Is flour considered food at all? It sounds more like an ingredient than a food.

JumpCrisscross · 2025-10-09T10:13:06 1760004786

> sounds more like an ingredient than a food

Nova doesn’t distinguish between ingredients and food [1]. (It needs to be able to do this. UPFs are defined, in part, by almost lacking low-Nova inputs.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

IAmBroom · 2025-10-09T14:07:41 1760018861

You can eat it and survive.

Cooking it first is a big improvement, but the same is true of carrots, IMO.