First Prize Works of the First Ningxia Middle School Student Science Popularization and Science Fiction Writing Competition: Artificial "Five Flavors"

Editor: Liu Yuxin Reviewer: Yang Pengbin

Yinchuan Tanglai Middle School, Yinchuan City, Grade 2021 Chen Jiahao Provincial First Prize Instructor: Zhang Ruiqin

By 2160, the food supply had completely collapsed, and famine was raging in countries around the world. In this dangerous situation, scientists from all over the world worked together to research and eventually created the food of the future.

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This kind of artificial food is made through gene cloning technology, such as "artificial meat": genes are extracted from a piece of meat, and then these genes are processed to become "artificial meat" with the same number of genes.

The nutrients in artificial food have been replicated compared to those in real food, and are much more than before: Second, scientists have implanted the nutrients that are missing in artificial food. For example, after the nutrients in "artificial meat" have been replicated, some nutrients that meat does not originally have are still missing, such as vitamin C. In order to prevent "artificial meat" from lacking vitamin C, scientists extracted some vitamin C from "artificial oranges" and implanted it into "artificial meat", so there is no need to worry about "artificial meat" lacking vitamin C.

Artificial food has various patterns, the most common of which is "artificial noodles". "Artificial noodles" are made into "artificial noodles" with different patterns according to different people's preferences. Some are engraved with images of flying dragons and phoenixes, some are engraved with images of zodiac animals, and some are engraved with cartoon-type images...

Artificial food can also prevent diseases because scientists put vaccines in sealed syringes and give them to robots to inject the vaccines into artificial food. After humans eat it, they will develop immunity to resist viruses.

If you think artificial food is too troublesome, don’t worry, there are still the “five flavors”.

Wuwei is actually a capsule. Its shape is very strange, diamond-shaped, smooth to the touch, and does not generate heat. It looks white from a distance, but it flashes with colorful colors and emits a faint fragrance when you look closely. It may be a little bitter when you put it in your mouth. If you hold the whole Wuwei in your mouth, it still has no taste, but when the medicine capsule is completely melted in your mouth, there is a hint of sweetness in the aftertaste. Before long, you will feel that your stomach is full and it will not be a problem to continue for a year. You see, this simple method can save a lot of food in a year. Not only that, tastelessness also brings us convenience. If there is no Wuwei, every day at home, busy in and out, and cooking, it takes so much time to finish, maybe sometimes it is burnt or something because it takes too long to cook, which is a little troublesome. After eating, you have to wipe the table and wash the dishes, which may be a mess. With my capsule, I can easily take one, and a lot of food for a year is covered in a small Wuwei.

Do you know why one of these five flavors is equivalent to a year's worth of food? Because the five flavors contain many vegetables, fruits, nutritious water and many other foods, such as durian, pine bamboo, pineapple, lettuce, carrot, tofu and scallops... a total of 108 foods. Take a little bit of each of them and mix it into a mixture that is as long and wide as a palm. After stretching and pressing, it can be mixed into a small capsule. However, this medicine capsule is afraid of water. Once it reaches the stomach, the capsule will gradually decompose the 108 foods along with the intestines. After all, after being compressed before, they will expand like puffed food until they fill the entire stomach and "live" in the stomach for a year. In the spring of the second year, these foods will be excreted from the body with feces.

Scientists from various countries will continue to study and strive to make people around the world eat delicious and convenient food.