At this point, I'm not sure how bottled Soylent can distinguish itself from other bottled dietary replacements like Ensure, aside from the name.
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#42My favorite argument for food being more than just a percentual composition of nutrients is the fact that your gut is effectively able to smell.
> Olfactory receptor responding to gut microbiota-derived signals plays a role in renin secretion and blood pressure regulation
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600440/]
Beyond my scepticism regarding the long-term benefit of a simplification of eating down to relying to a single designed food source - I am also worried about the mindset of a person who is motivated in doing so.
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#43Soylent truly is the food of the future! [1]
[1] The joyless tech-utopian future for ascetics nerds who decided their humanity wasn't optimized for maximum productivity.
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#44At this point, I'm not sure how bottled Soylent can distinguish itself from other bottled dietary replacements like Ensure, aside from the name.
Soylent can help if you're cadmium-deficient.
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#45At this point, I'm not sure how bottled Soylent can distinguish itself from other bottled dietary replacements like Ensure, aside from the name.
Ensure is not a proper meal replacement.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Each bottle replaces a traditional meal. How much water/plastic/cardboard is needed for most normal meals?
Almost none? Produce can be purchased in reusable bags, and the water comes from your faucet so it doesn't need to be shipped cross-country.
It's possible that Soylent is replacing meals that would have otherwise been fast food or takeout, both of which waste both cardboard and plastic.
I don't imagine a lot of people are eschewing home-cooked meals for meal replacement shakes.
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#47This 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...
Jumped on here to say this as well, this does not make Soylent look appetizing or make me want to buy it. It does the exact opposite. It makes the product look bland, generic, manufactured and unappealing.
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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.
Being realistic, nobody is going to use these for water bottles either. And even if they did how many water bottles do you really need? K-Cups are wasteful, but at least they ship three months (90 K-Cups) at a time and there is very little wasted space during shipping (it is just packed coffee). Is it a waste of plastic/foil? Absolutely. But in terms of shipping waste, K-Cups aren't near the worst. These on the other…
> The saddest part is that they USED to sell the product like that.
They still do. They've said they will for the foreseeable future, and will continue to update it.
IMHO, the new bottles are to aim at a more casual demographic. They at least seem more convenient.
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#49If 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, an…
I've tried cinnamon, peanut butter powder, cocoa powder, Nesquik, banana, mango, chocolate syrup, vanilla extract, and even tried to mix coffee in after the initial mixing. Nothing has gotten rid of the horribly overpowering taste. I have 3 weeks of 1.5 sitting in my cabinets because I'm unable to stomach it. I don't have overly sensitive taste buds (I will eat almost anything) but simply cannot stomach Soylent. I fe…
I had the same problem with 1.4, I found adding 2 tbsp of cocoa powder, and 2 tbsp of sugar, per pouch made it taste more like a chocolate protein shake, and way more bearable.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is where tech vs. business breaks down. Tech thinks everything has to be new, unique, novel, and the-best-in-the-world. Business is all about differentiation and marketing and getting inside customer minds. Even if Soylent was Ensure re-branded, they can still have a business by being "fuel for the tech crowd" instead of "feeding tube fuel" http://www.amazon.com/Nestle-Healthcare-Nutrition-85140100-U... It's all…
Are you serious? The products are substantially different. If you look at the nutritional info for Ensure[1] and Soylent[2] you'll see that Soylent has more calories, more fat, no cholesterol, more sodium, more potassium, less sugar, more protein. Most important, Soylent has a more even distribution of the daily % of vitamins and minerals. If you drink 3 bottles of Ensure you're up to 180% daily value of Vitamin C, 2…
> more calories, more fat, no cholesterol, more sodium, more potassium, less sugar, more protein.
Sure, so you've established that the products are different. Are these changes for the better, though?
> If you drink 3 bottles of Ensure you're up to 180% daily value of Vitamin C, 240% of Vitamin D, 180% Manganese.
So? These aren't anywhere close to worrisome levels.
> My feeling is also that Soylent measures more and tweaks their formula more.
Do you base this on knowledge of Ensure's development practices, or on Soylent's marketing?