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Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

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Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

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Post by atomical »

johnfn wrote: post #39
Danihan wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does it blow away a clif bar?

As I recall, Clif Bars are predominantly carbs and some fat. Soylent has a reasonable balance of protein and more emphasis on vitamins and minerals. To be clear, I'm not a nutritional expert. But I've had people who know more than me tell me clif bars are basically non-nutritious.

And too much protein?

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/fda-daily-recommendations-pr...

"The FDA recommendation for daily protein intake is 50 grams on a 2,000-calorie diet."

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

#132

Post by atomical »

VikingCoder wrote: post #54

Soylent was fine. I maintained weight, and was eating better, and the food was easy. But I'm in a medical weight loss program now, and I'm loving it. It's doctor supervised, I started out at 400 pounds, and I'm down to 360 after five weeks. It's medically supervised because I'm in ketosis, which can be very dangerous. So best to have blood drawn regularly, etc. But the food is great. You can also get them as your own…

3,500 calories is a pound

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

#133

Post by Karunamon »

To hopefully short-circuit a lot of pointless debate, the product you're about to mention is not equivalent to Soylent unless all of the following conditions are true:

1. It contains enough calories for an average healthy adult to live on (2000/cal/day, give or take)

2. The sugars used are high glycemic index

3. You will incur no major nutritional deficiencies/toxicities by long term use

4. It costs no more than $14/day (or $8/day for the powder) while satisfying all above conditions

Most diet drinks fail on condition 1, most meal replacements you're aware of like Ensure fail on conditions 2 and 3, and the leftovers usually fail on condition 4.

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

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Post by johnfn »

atomical wrote: post #125
johnfn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go to what they've written up on their website, https://www.amplemeal.com/products/ample , you can see they've taken and written about a lot of care in selecting ingredients. Off the top of my head, probiotics are a big thing that you don't see in Soylent. Spirulina is included. Omega 3 fatty acids. The emphasis on whole foods rather than nutrients is another thing important to me. From what they've written it…

It contains an unnecessary amount of protein if you're only consuming Ample.

Yeah- in comparison to Soylent the Ample guys specifically say not to only eat Ample. Arguably people get less protein than they should.

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

#137

Post by johnfn »

tryitnow wrote: post #83
johnfn wrote: post #5

Soylent gets a lot of hate (I'm looking forward to skipping out on this thread before the inevitable negative comments from people who assume that Soylent consumers will eat nothing but Soylent for the rest of their lives), but to me, it's solved a large problem in my life: what to eat when I'm hungry but I don't have enough time to prepare a full meal. It can happen every now and then when I'm rushing around, and so…

That's my use case too. I've also just bought something called MealSquares, which may be serve the same purpose with the advantage of being solid food and using mostly whole foods.

Yeah! I tried MealSquares for a while and they were great. The actual taste left something to be desired - they were quite dry - but if I wasn't into Ample I'd totally get some more.

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

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Post by jonknee »

CPLX wrote: post #123
Kurtz79 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Soylent does nothing for me because I find that any other viable option for eating, be it a sandwich from a vending machine, is a more attractive. Even low quality food is likely to give me a modicum of satisfaction, when a meal replacement does not. I can't get the hate either, though. If you are happy with it and improves your life, more power to you (and to Soylent).

> I can't get the hate either, though. I believe the fact that someone just wrote them a $50MM check is a fine reason to make a critical assessment of their actual value.

Why? Most $50mm investments end up worth nothing. The fact a company has investment does not mean they have actual value.

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

#139

Post by VikingCoder »

atomical wrote: post #132
VikingCoder wrote: post #54

Soylent was fine. I maintained weight, and was eating better, and the food was easy. But I'm in a medical weight loss program now, and I'm loving it. It's doctor supervised, I started out at 400 pounds, and I'm down to 360 after five weeks. It's medically supervised because I'm in ketosis, which can be very dangerous. So best to have blood drawn regularly, etc. But the food is great. You can also get them as your own…

3,500 calories is a pound

Oop, yeah, sorry.

Re: Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV

#140

Post by hyperpape »

atomical wrote: post #131
johnfn wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I recall, Clif Bars are predominantly carbs and some fat. Soylent has a reasonable balance of protein and more emphasis on vitamins and minerals. To be clear, I'm not a nutritional expert. But I've had people who know more than me tell me clif bars are basically non-nutritious.

And too much protein? http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/fda-daily-recommendations-pr... "The FDA recommendation for daily protein intake is 50 grams on a 2,000-calorie diet."

That's not a maximum. The body can heathily process a few times that much a day (don't quote me on the precise number).
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