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Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by eltoozero »

bfstein wrote: post #12
galistoca wrote: post #9

Anyone know if there's anything like Soylent but for protein only? Sometimes I go on a no-carb diet (sometimes to lose weight and sometimes because carbs make me sleepy) and I am too lazy to buy ingredients and cook at home. I just want soylent, but with 0 carbs. Anyone know?

Why not just get protein powder? EDIT: Alternatively, you could go on http://blendrunner.com/ which gives a comparison of the various meal-replacement drinks out there.

Standard protein powder is usually animal protein which even if you're not a vegetarian is kinda gross.

Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by lowmagnet »

Spooky23 wrote: post #28
jey wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what?

Both read similar and are pretty much complete bullshit.

How is synthetic oil bull? It is literally the process that prevents oils from degrading, and results in cars that use far less oil over their lifetime due to a tripling of change time and mileage limits.

Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by DanBC »

whorleater wrote: post #49
cisstrd wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when the Soylent-Creator was on the Colbert Report, and he clearly marketed it as a 100% food replacement. Saying that you don't have to replace food with it completely is smart, it opens up additional customers, makes sense. Their Soylent promotional video however makes the claim that 1) it can replace any meal 2) while not having to replace every meal, it certainly insinuates it can (which is way differe…

> 1) it can replace any meal 2) while not having to replace every meal, it certainly insinuates it can.. So...your beef with Soylent is that they insinuate that every meal can be replaced? You're free to enjoy food however you want, but you do realize just because they insinuate it, you don't have to follow that right? > So you are to tired to cook, but fit enough to run? And usually I have to get dressed, have to sh…

> your beef with Soylent is that they insinuate that every meal can be replaced

Their kick starter didn't insinuate this, it explicitly said you could use it as a 100% meal replacement.

Here's what happens in Soylent threads:

Someone says how great this new thing is, this new total meal replacement

Someone else says that liquid meal replacements are not new

Some people will say that they're not marketed as 100% liquid meal replacements (they are, to medical professionals)

Other people point out the problems of Soylent marketing ("puts everyone in perfect health"!!) and the problems with 100% liquid feeds (the risks are acceptable in ill people, but probably not in well people)

People then say that of course it's not a 100% meal replacement, and no-one would ever use it like that.

Soylent isn't new; the early marketing was amazingly irresponsible; and the early creation was irresponsible. They've pulled back from many of their earlier claims, and most people have stopped saying that it's a 100% meal replacement. So now we're left with a dull product that has no differentiation from all the other products on the market that have existed for many years.

Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by sikosmurf »

m0v_eax wrote: post #6
ben_jones wrote: post #3

Is this a point of discussion or an Ad? Here are some previous discussions which I feel cover everything their is to be said about the product: [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6247552 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9995303 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814005 [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109371 [5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6115114

Regardless, a 1.6 release is still a newsworthy item.

It's at least as relevant as the "Electrn v0.0.5-rc finally released!" style posts that seem to accompany every random web framework version release.

Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by chris_7 »

eltoozero wrote: post #61
bfstein wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just get protein powder? EDIT: Alternatively, you could go on http://blendrunner.com/ which gives a comparison of the various meal-replacement drinks out there.

Standard protein powder is usually animal protein which even if you're not a vegetarian is kinda gross.

Why would a vegetarian have a problem with protein powder? It's just milk, it's not made of cows.

Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by GrumpyYoungMan »

cisstrd wrote: post #44
thatswrong0 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time I see a comment like this, I'm amazed at the commenters inability to not take everything to the extreme. YOU CAN EAT SOYLENT AND STILL EAT FOOD. If you don't have much time on your hands, and you want a quick meal, it works really well and is better than, say, McDonalds. 1) Eating isn't pleasure for me 2 to 3 times a day. I eat lunch because I'm hungry. I'll go out and eat a nice meal once or twice a week.…

I am going by how they market it, not by how you use it. If company makes market claim "x", which is ridiculous and I criticize that claim, someone then saying that he personally hasn't bought it because of claim "x" does not make my point invalid at all. 1) We differ there, I can well get all of my calories from normal food without being annoyed by eating. 2) But it's marketed as complete food replacement, not as a…

>Have we all forgotten how to deal with real food?!

Apparently, yes.

"The dream of all these companies is to capture the all-powerful and elusive millennial eater, who just isn’t all that into cereal for breakfast. It’s just too much work, for one thing. Almost 40 percent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel for its 2015 report said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/dining/breakfast-cereal.ht...

The Washington Post also has an analysis of the trend:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/23/this-...

Re: Introducing Soylent 1.6 Powder

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Post by b34r »

pkulak wrote: post #17
flogic wrote: post #8

I would really like a version of Soylent that doesn't use sucralose. That stuff leaves a nasty aftertaste.

It's currently the sugar-substitute that tastes the best to the most people, so I'm sure that they could replace it with something that would please you, but it would probably displease many more.

Erythritol is also a popular sugar substitute. Personally, I'm happy with aspartame, but I know a lot of people frown on it from the unsubstantiated claims of brain cancer correlation.
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