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At the moment, believe it or not, Soylent is vegan. One thing I've noticed in lots of diet advocacy literature is that you'll find statements like "this nutrie
by bane 11y ago
At the moment, believe it or not, Soylent is vegan.
One thing I've noticed in lots of diet advocacy literature is that you'll find statements like "this nutrient is available in that food" without ever specifying the amount or how much you have to eat to make up for the lack of meat/gluten/whatever the diet is trying to keep you from eating.
Quite often people will then build up meals in that diet thinking that they'll have all of the various nutrients they need, but it turns out it doesn't have sufficient concentrations of certain important ones. And you would have to eat multiple kilograms of the replacement food to get enough of the nutrient to be useful.
The amount of nutrition and food science somebody has to know to live healthily on an alternative diet can sometimes be staggering.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago"Cadmium" is not, in fact, made with real Cadmus.
- logn 11y agoI found the same thing. The best blog-like sources I found are livestrong.com and whfoods.com. By far the best source of info I've found is http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list which is a database of all foods, even pre-packaged ones. And this is helpful too to know daily intake recommendations: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/DRI/DRI_Tables/recommended_intakes_individuals.pdf http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/DRI/DRI_Tables/recommended_inta... I had no part in this app, but have used it too, and it's based on the gov data from above: cronometer.com