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I'd love to see less snark/hostility/FUD on these Soylent threads. 1. No, Soylent is not the same as Ensure with different packaging/marketing 2. No, Soylent
by tunesmith 11y ago
I'd love to see less snark/hostility/FUD on these Soylent threads.
1. No, Soylent is not the same as Ensure with different packaging/marketing
2. No, Soylent does not have illegal levels of heavy metals, nor did it in the past.
3. People don't tend to eat nutritionally complete meals every meal of the day. Measuring Soylent against this ideal is beside the point. Soylent is inarguably better than coke and cheetos, though. I bet most people reading this can think of a meal they've had in the last 48 hours that was less healthy than 12 oz soylent.
- splawn 11y agoThis isn't meant to be hostile snark FUD. Hopefully you know the answer or have a link that addresses my question. As far as your first point... I am asking because I know someone that sometimes has trouble keeping food down and their doctor recommended them to use Ensure, but they didn't like it. I was thinking about telling them about Soylent, of course I would have them ask their doctor first. Anyways, What makes it functionally different than Ensure?
- tunesmith 11y agoIf I were to try to give a complete answer, I'd probably spend fifteen minutes googling "Ensure vs Soylent" - there are some good matches there through discussion boards that analyze the ingredient breakdowns, also some replies from the soylent people too. Ensure is definitely more expensive in those analyses, and that's from before soylent's recent price drop. Beyond that, it appears to be a rather different ingredient list - looks like Ensure doesn't have much in the way of fiber, has more sugar, etc.
- DanBC 11y agoI'd love to see Soylent apologising for the untruthful misleading lies they told during fundraising. Until they apologise they deserve scorn. (Edit)