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Flera
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The purpose of flera is to provide calorie-rich, nutritionally balanced food of sufficient bulk for a single serving to be filling. This maximizes the value of a given volume of food. One serving of flera contains all of the calories and nutrients that the subject needs for one day — as long as the eater partakes of the correct variant. There are dozens of subspecies of flera, each of which is optimized to meet the needs of a class of related bionts.
Flera is a common and popular food among sapient herbivores, especially the Lepusan man/rabbit splice, and many omnivores enjoy the occasional salad made with flera.
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Text by Michael Walton
Initially published on 15 September 2009.
Initially published on 15 September 2009.
