Talk:Roma Hoito/@comment-2602:306:CD47:55E0:91FC:75C6:C129:4F1F-20170802034552/@comment-217.209.94.177-20170803113357

^^ Maybe ghouls are feeding on the proteins of a body rather than the rc-cells alone?

the rc-cells themselves aren't depleting by themselves, but stockpiling every time the ghoul adds to them from other sources?

and the concentration of rc-cells in the food determines how much they get from the meals.

For example, a person who weighs (let's say 100 pounds) got a concentration of a 100 rc-cells in total within them.

Divide it, and you get 1 rc-cell concentration per pound in that person.

So in order for the ghoul to get 1+ on their rc-cell level, they would have to eat a pound of flesh from that body. and eat a 100 pounds (or all of it) just to get 100+ on the account.

And a human body is not just flesh and meat, a lot of that is inedible bone that makes the rc-cell account gained even smaller for the ghoul eating.

So with this in mind, recall that the odds for a ghoul to feed and strip a body clean to the bone is a very rare occurence (I think only Kaneki has ever gone that far with the bodies he consumed, if the pile of skulls is any indication...oh! and Tsukiyama! almost forgot about that...)

Like how caterpillars eat their whole life before gaining enough nourishment and reserves to enter the transformation into butterflies?

The rc-cell account never drops, it either stands still or gradually adds up, on and on, until the amounts can measure up to enter the "cocoon" and turn the ghoul into a "Noro", a adult individual.

So putting them in prison and let them feed on a minimum diet wouldn't drop the number in the slightest.

That is how I see it.