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Unfortunately Soylent does not market it as such. If they did, I'd be inclined to agree with you. However, on Soylent's website you can find the following: "So
by oneJob 11y ago
Unfortunately Soylent does not market it as such. If they did, I'd be inclined to agree with you. However, on Soylent's website you can find the following:
"Soylent is a food product (classified as a food, not a supplement, by the FDA) designed for use as a staple meal by all adults." -https://www.soylent.com/about/ https://www.soylent.com/about/
"Soylent is designed as a simple staple food, and people incorporate it into their lives to varying degrees. Some people use it almost exclusively, while others use it 2-3 times per week.
There is no right or wrong amount of Soylent to eat - the whole idea is to find a balance that works for you." -https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201273045-How-do-I-use-Soylent- https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201273045-How-do-I...
"Our goal at Soylent is to engineer nutritionally-complete food products that are optimized for modern consumers' lifestyles and budgets. Above all, we want to make healthy nutrition easily attainable." -https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203709619-Soylent-Approach-to-Nutrition https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203709619-Soylent-...
So by using terms or phrases such as 'complete', 'almost exclusively', and 'staple', and going so far as to remark that it is classified by the FDA as a 'food' and not a 'supplement', Soylent is explicitly marketing their product as a primary or complete food and nutrition source.
Their words. Not mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_food
- Karunamon 11y agoIt sounds like the FDA classified it for them. Given: - The FDA considers it a food - Soylent considers it a food - Soylent users are on record as consuming mostly or all the product for their primary complete food source.. - ..over long periods of time, including the founder, who supposedly lives on the stuff. - Of those users, most are reporting positive results... - ..and the negative results are generally of the classes "don't like the taste" / "gave me bad gas" ..then I'm left to conclude that it is a food, and a pretty good one at that.
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