I like what Chris Dixon had to say on Twitter: "NY Times has a wine critic review Soylent. Reminiscent of the time they had a literary critic review Twitter."
Soylent Taste Test
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#22I don't understand why Soylent receives the press it does, meal-replacement shakes have been on the market for quite a long time. The entire phenomenon seems to just be a marketing gimmick around some misguided notion of it "replacing food".
The fact that Soylent tastes terrible should hardly be a surprise considering that none of the team behind this product has education/experience in food technology (http://www.rosalabs.com/team/). Shouldn't that be a red flag for investors, considering ample availability of experience in such industries?
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#23People interested in Soylent may be interested in the whole food alternatives, MealSquares and Ambronite.
I was not aware of those, thanks for the links!
I'll be curious at how much Ambronite ends up costing
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#24Sometimes i have a hard time telling if the hostility towards Soylent is just normal HN flare, or something meaningful.
Sometimes i think people assume we're going to force Soylent on them o_O
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#25I don't understand why Soylent receives the press it does, meal-replacement shakes have been on the market for quite a long time. The entire phenomenon seems to just be a marketing gimmick around some misguided notion of it "replacing food".
They actually haven't. The closest is "booster shakes" which you can use to replace a lunch, here and there. But that's it. None of them say you can stop eating food all together.
I've sat down and done the research and tried to find a single one that would actually say you could use it as a meal replacement, and there aren't any. The only thing really are ones that they keep coma patients alive with, which isn't exactly something a normal every day person could use and stay active. But they would advertise it, just a hint at it, then the fine print says otherwise.
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#26Spoiler alert: it doesn't taste like much.
As for the rest, it's the usual Soylent article being rehashed. If you're looking for a bland, cheap alternative to journalism, this is for you.
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#27I don't understand why Soylent receives the press it does, meal-replacement shakes have been on the market for quite a long time. The entire phenomenon seems to just be a marketing gimmick around some misguided notion of it "replacing food".
Meal replacement shakes are expensive, inefficient, and unhealthy compared to Soylent. They usually ship with the liquid/water mixed in, and the cost/kcal is substantially higher, with the carbohydrate concentrations much, much higher.
Do you have a source or proof for these points? Last I checked a serving of Ensure was a good bit cheaper than Soylent.
Shipping with the liquid/water mixed can often be a convenience, and at least Ensure also offers it's product in a powdered form: http://ensure.com/products/ensure-powder
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#28I don't understand why Soylent receives the press it does, meal-replacement shakes have been on the market for quite a long time. The entire phenomenon seems to just be a marketing gimmick around some misguided notion of it "replacing food".
Meal replacement shakes are expensive, inefficient, and unhealthy compared to Soylent. They usually ship with the liquid/water mixed in, and the cost/kcal is substantially higher, with the carbohydrate concentrations much, much higher.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meal replacement shakes are expensive, inefficient, and unhealthy compared to Soylent. They usually ship with the liquid/water mixed in, and the cost/kcal is substantially higher, with the carbohydrate concentrations much, much higher.
Do you have a source or proof for these points? Last I checked a serving of Ensure was a good bit cheaper than Soylent. Shipping with the liquid/water mixed can often be a convenience, and at least Ensure also offers it's product in a powdered form: http://ensure.com/products/ensure-powder
The cost of a serving of Soylent varies based on the amount you've ordered. The cheapest it goes for is ~$3.04 per serving - $255 for a monthly shipment of 28 days worth.
The 'buy online' link from the Ensure page you posted lists their powdered product at $65 per 6 pack of 14oz cans. The serving size is 57g, so there are about 7 servings per can; a serving costs about $1.55.
Each Ensure serving is 250 calories, with 9g protein, 9g fat, 34g carbs (13g sugar, 0g fiber) and between 10 and 60% of all the major vitamins and minerals (most seem to be 25%).
Each non-vegan Soylent serving is 670 calories, with 38g protein, 24g fat, 84g carbs (2g sugar, 9g fiber) and between 33 and 57% of all the major vitamins and minerals (most are 33%). The vegans do their own thing with an oil additive (Soylent ships a fish oil/canola blend) so the published nutritional information is not accurate for vegans.
So without actually doing all the arithmetic, I would say that I would probably need 2.5-ish Ensure servings for every 1 Soylent serving to equalize calories. I would be getting more vitamins out of Ensure, but also more sugar - most of the carbs - and no fiber at all. The price would be close but Ensure would be more expensive.
http://abbottstore.com/adult-nutrition/ensure-powder-vanilla...
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/4/assets/Comple...
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#30"The modern man does what he can so that he doesn't have to walk, doesn't have to lift heavy things, doesn't have to sweat, doesn't have to meet others in person, doesn't have to take responsibility, doesn't have to love, doesn't have to hate, doesn't have to care, doesn't have to cook and even doesn't have to eat! So in the end he doesn't have anything! He has no life left as it all has been artificially removed fro…
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Should humanity forsake all modern conveniences and return to the bush?