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      1 day ago

      Good point. I don’t count vitamin and mineral as “pills”, since they are powdered or liquid nutrients squeezed into a pill shape for convenience. When I think of pills I think of medication.

      I actually grind up different nuts into a powder form and shape them into balls that I eat 1 per day too, like taking pills.

      I could squeeze flour, sugar into a pill shape too, is it a pill then? actually, rice looks like tiny pills. Is fish/meat ball just a giant pill? is noodle a long string shaped pill? Is Hot dog a huge chewable pill. Are meat patty in burger just giant tablet made from meat?

      To avoid counting sugar cubes as pills, I only count doc prescribed meds as “pills”, i.e., something that i have to take regularly and can only be obtained by doc prescription and/or is not considered a nutrient.