Almost every jar of pickles claims a serving of pickles has zero calories. Now clearly, this is incorrect and the result of exploiting some ridiculous FDA loophole, since anyone knows that cucumbers provide calories.
So let’s say you’re in a situation where you lose all access to food, but you’ve got effectively unlimited access to pickles – like, you’re trapped inside a recently abandoned pickle warehouse.
Could you conceivably eat enough pickles to survive for a month? Two months? Or would your body just shut down from all the sodium and acid?
if you are discussing short-term survive-ability, while waiting for rescue, then eating pickles is better than nothing. They will provide water, vitamins, electrolytes, etc. If you are discussing living off of pickles as a lifestyle, or prolonged diet option, then it isn’t enough.
It would do the opposite of providing water, it would almost immediately decrease the amount of water available to your body.
The pickles themselves shouldn’t be a net negative for hydration, but drinking the juice would be.
No way, pickles alone are super salty, it’ll definitely be dehydrating
So dry them thoroughly before eating?
And then you DIY distill the pickle juice to get as much water and as little acid as possible