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Ensure is inferior to Soylent in a few ways: - Ensure is nutritionally unbalanced. You'll get 200-400% of some nutrients (Vitamin C, Manganese) over 2000 calor
by aianus 11y ago
Ensure is inferior to Soylent in a few ways:
- Ensure is nutritionally unbalanced. You'll get 200-400% of some nutrients (Vitamin C, Manganese) over 2000 calories and much less than 100% of others (fiber). Drinking Ensure over a whole day would have you consuming 120g of sugar (!), double that of Soylent.
- Ensure comes in a fixed variety of flavors, all of which are sickeningly sweet. You can make Soylent as flavorful and sweet as you want or drink it bland, depending on your preference.
- Ensure comes in silly formats (250 calorie bottles? what, am I supposed to open and drink three at a time?)
- Ensure uses milk products while Soylent is Vegan.
- geofft 11y agoExcess vitamin C is certainly not harmful; nobody worries about drinking two glasses of orange juice (or even just one, and picking up more vitamin C from other sources), at least not because of its vitamin content. Orders of magnitude more vitamin C might be problematic, but 400% just isn't a problem. Manganese seems to be the same way; at around 500% DV, you should worry about toxicity, but not before. The rest of your criticisms are legitimate, though they're much more matters of opinions/preference than objective inferiority. (Personally, for instance, I find the taste of Ensure just fine; a bit on the sweet side, yes, but personally I use it when I'm failing to have an appetite, and sweet works for me.) Note that if you're aiming for a full meal replacement, the 350-calorie Ensure Plus is probably a better choice. One objective advantage of Ensure is that, to my knowledge, it does not cause the legendary smelly stool that Soylent does.