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After: [[File:food-crop-production1-if-crop-choices.png|540px]]
After: [[File:food-crop-production1-if-crop-choices.png|540px]]


People would have to get used to different foods - or maybe the same foods with different ingredients.
People would have to get used to different foods - or at least different ingredients. More on this later.


Today's major crops are corn, soy and wheat (this is the "before").
Every country would grow mostly a mix of its best-yielding crops. This varies tremendously by region.<br />[[crop choices/chart|The whole chart can be found here. Note: it's a big page and may be slow to load.]]


But in the new scenario ("after"), the top crops include cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, and other vegetables. While these don't ''seem'' like high-calorie foods, the sheer volume of them actually provides more calories than today's food supply. Now I don't think it's possible to eat that many vegetables raw - but they could probably be dried and processed into flour for baked goods etc, like how wheat and corn are today.


The links below show the crops as foods in the [[nutrition calculator]].<br />
The links below show the crops as foods in the [[nutrition calculator]].<br />
Food per day, per capita:
Food per day, per capita:
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===Summary===
Today's major crops are corn, soy and wheat (this is the "before").
But in the new scenario ("after"), the top crops include cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, and other vegetables. While these don't ''seem'' like high-calorie foods, the sheer volume of them actually provides more calories than today's food supply. Now I don't think it's possible to eat that many vegetables raw - but they could probably be dried and processed into flour for baked goods etc, like how wheat and corn are today.




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