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Re: Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

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Post by omouse »

deegles wrote: post #5

It seems like such a waste of plastic and cardboard. Makes me think of Keurig k-cups and how it's been deemed an environmental mess. I'm sure the Soylent bottles are recyclable but it's still a waste to be shipping all that weight around (including the water). I hope they make a vending machine that mixes it on the spot.

The problem with Keurig k-cups is that you can't use them for anything else and you can't use them with other coffee machines. These bottles look like you could save them as water bottles in the worst case.

Re: Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

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Post by farnsworth »

If you buy the powder, it's easy to blend in some fruit or other flavoring, which gives it more variety and a better taste. Or by itself, it's pretty easy to prepare even in just a shaker bottle if you don't have a blender. I'm curious to see how the texture of 2.0 will compare to way it turns out when I make it at home, though. I assume we'll see the bottled form in stores whenever they're able to produce enough, and that's where they'll really start making money.

Re: Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

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Post by bufordsharkley »

Scarbutt wrote: post #7

Looking at the nutrition facts, with 5 bottles (2000 calories) a day you get 60% daily value of fiber, is that percentage enough or I'm missing something here?

I believe the response from Soylent is that fiber itself is not necessary; it's only needed to move along solid food through the digestive system.

If you're only drinking Soylent, you should need far less fiber, if any at all.

I am seeing a lot of criticism of this online [1], however.

[1] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/reduced-fiber-in-1-5/21706/8

Re: Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

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Post by gboss »

This video is super bizarre. While assembly lines are impressive works of engineering in and of themselves, I don't know how this engenders excitement about the product. It looks super artificial and not like food. I know that's the point that it's "fuel" but it would be nice to see the ingredients that turn into that white liquid. Maybe we don't want to see those...

Re: Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

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Post by RickS »

bpodgursky wrote: post #4

At this point, I'm not sure how bottled Soylent can distinguish itself from other bottled dietary replacements like Ensure, aside from the name.

Are ensure et al nutritionally complete? As in - you can live off ensure and nothing else?

My understanding is that soylent (and clones) are able to be full replacements for food in general, whereas ensure, muscle milk, etc, are meant to be purely supplemental

Re: Now Shipping Soylent 2.0

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Post by zorpner »

clamprecht wrote: post #13
hooo wrote: post #3

Does this one have as much lead and cadmium as the previous?

How much lead & cadmium did the previous one have? (with source please)

It's easy enough for you to Google up the details. The "issue" wasn't with the content but with their labeling -- they only included the California Prop 65 warning on their website, not on the product packaging (which they claimed was sufficient since the website was the only legitimate source of the product).
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