Soylent Taste Test
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Soylent Taste Test
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#2YouTube link for mobile users: http://youtu.be/HRDcdaQMRDc
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#3There was a big debate on HN about the accompanying article yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7814005
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#4Personally, I'm looking forward to Soylent being available at grocery stores...
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#5I've been wondering what it tastes like. Glad to hear other people describe it!
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#6I 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".
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#7I 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 eventual goal is not just as a meal replacement but a full diet replacement that eventually won't need to leverage crops, for areas with no arable land.
Most meal replacement shakes I've seen (not including those used in the medical industry) aren't suitable to replace your entire diet with and are generally very expensive per meal because of this. Most also warn against using the product to replace every meal with.
I think it's very good to have a mainstream product like this that attempts to cover 100% of the suggested daily intake, simply to bring into debate what the daily intake should really consist of? And if we can achieve it in countries that are too far from supply of actual crops.
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#8I 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".
Is that necessarily a gimmick? Meal replacement shakes may have been around for a while, but they haven't been marketing to me. If Soylent can successfully market to a larger/different demographic than Ensure has been, then aren't they like any other company that introduces a new product into an existing market? Is there anything bad/dishonest about that approach?
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#9I 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 eventual goal is not just as a meal replacement but a full diet replacement that eventually won't need to leverage crops, for areas with no arable land. Most meal replacement shakes I've seen (not including those used in the medical industry) aren't suitable to replace your entire diet with and are generally very expensive per meal because of this. Most also warn against using the product to replace every meal wi…
"a full diet replacement that eventually won't need to leverage crops, for areas with no arable land."
How will they make soylent? there are plenty of foods with 100kcal per/0z. that are shelf stable and natural (and healthy). Shipping in powder X vs other food Y is a false differentiation. Its neither more healthy nor, nor less bulky, nor cheaper to ship.
Lastly, you will need to ship in water which is 4-5x the weight of food per day.
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#10The sommelier guy would get the top comment on HN every time