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Such a great analysis, and truly depressing that such a hyped-up "meal replacement drink" maker hasn't done the bare basics of due diligence to ensure they aren

Such a great analysis, and truly depressing that such a hyped-up "meal replacement drink" maker hasn't done the bare basics of due diligence to ensure they aren't harming their customers. Typical.

PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Whatever you do, don't make any negative comments in one of our regularly occurring Soylent threads. You'll be voted down into oblivion.
skybrian 11y ago
Sadly typical to see people make these accusations without even doing a Google search. Answers to least two of these are in the FAQ: https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203962069-Vitamin-D https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203962069-Vitamin-... https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204547005-Magnesium https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204547005-Magnesiu... I'm not enough of a nutritionist to say whether that's really sufficient, but they do consult with nutritionists, so it seems likely they've at least thought about all this stuff. Proving there's something wrong with Soylent is going to take more research than anyone's likely to casually do for an Internet discussion.
- puredemo 11y ago
  Did you read the reason why vitamin D2 was chosen? Simply because it didn't contain animal products, not because it was any better. Similar for the Magnesium, it was chosen for a neutral taste rather than based on bio-availability. Even though Magnesium Oxide is barely processed by the human body at all. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766
  - skybrian 11y ago
    In general, I think it's okay to make design tradeoffs like that, because higher levels of vitamins beyond what you really need aren't necessarily better. But you could certainly ask them about it. I'm not going to get into it because this stuff gets complicated really fast [1] and two non-scientists debating it on the Internet gets silly. [1] https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfessional/ https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfession...

Such a great analysis, and truly depressing that such a hyped-up "meal replacement drink" maker hasn't done the bare basics of due diligence to ensure they aren't harming their customers. Typical.

PhantomGremlin 11y ago

Whatever you do, don't make any negative comments in one of our regularly occurring Soylent threads. You'll be voted down into oblivion.

skybrian 11y ago

Sadly typical to see people make these accusations without even doing a Google search. Answers to least two of these are in the FAQ: https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203962069-Vitamin-D https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/203962069-Vitamin-... https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204547005-Magnesium https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204547005-Magnesiu... I'm not enough of a nutritionist to say whether that's really sufficient, but they do consult with nutritionists, so it seems likely they've at least thought about all this stuff. Proving there's something wrong with Soylent is going to take more research than anyone's likely to casually do for an Internet discussion.

puredemo 11y ago
Did you read the reason why vitamin D2 was chosen? Simply because it didn't contain animal products, not because it was any better. Similar for the Magnesium, it was chosen for a neutral taste rather than based on bio-availability. Even though Magnesium Oxide is barely processed by the human body at all. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2407766
- skybrian 11y ago
  In general, I think it's okay to make design tradeoffs like that, because higher levels of vitamins beyond what you really need aren't necessarily better. But you could certainly ask them about it. I'm not going to get into it because this stuff gets complicated really fast [1] and two non-scientists debating it on the Internet gets silly. [1] https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfessional/ https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfession...