The thing which Soylent gets right is trying to come at it from a nutrition standpoint first. That's definitely a much better starting place than the rest of t

The thing which Soylent gets right is trying to come at it from a nutrition standpoint first. That's definitely a much better starting place than the rest of the industrialized food world. That said, I think the idea of a single optimal meal replacement is fundamentally flawed. Our understanding of nutrition and metabolism is still very rudimentary. My opinion is that it's dangerous to move away from whole foods today, not because of some natural food fallacy, but simply because we don't know everything that's going on with digestive and nutritional health. It may very well be the case that no single food is optimal to eat all the time, and that the body needs different rhythms of food intake over time to create baseline stresses for the organism to respond to metabolically.