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Soylent is so awful for you. They really capitalized on the ignorance of millenials with regard to proper nutrition. edit: Shouldn't have trigger responded, bu
by eljimmy 9y ago
Soylent is so awful for you. They really capitalized on the ignorance of millenials with regard to proper nutrition.
edit: Shouldn't have trigger responded, but one of my biggest gripes with Soylent is their use of maltodextrin. It's not something you want to be consuming in mass every day. It is good for post-workout nutrition but as a meal you may as well be consuming sugar.
- virtuallynathan 9y agoIn what way? According to who?
- dogecoinbase 9y agoThe dozens of people on the Soylent subreddit who got weeks of diarrhea followed by jaundice? Though I think my favorite was the people who were arguing that some level of mold was acceptable if it meant they didn't have to deal with the inconvenience of foil seals.
- chipotle_coyote 9y agoReally? I don't want to laugh, but snrk Both my current and previous company got in Soylent on occasion; the current one has gotten Coffiest a few times, which I haven't tried, while the earlier one got in the bottled Soylent and the short-lived Soylent Bar. I tried the bottled version once--maybe twice?--and had no ill effects, but didn't particularly like it, either. I had no ill effects from the bar, either, and I confess I actually rather liked it. I'd probably order it again, assuming it seemed safe. But as someone who, well, actually likes eating, I don't see the attraction of using this stuff as anything other than "I don't have enough time to cook or even go to a sit-down restaurant" type meals, the same way I would any other breakfast bar or meal drink. And looking at it that way makes their meal drinks much less appealing to me compared to, say, Ensure. Yes, Ensure has way more sugar, but it has a half-dozen fairly reasonable flavors, none of which are "dilute pancake batter."
- jeremiahlukus 9y agoI have pretty heavy scarring in my esophagus. This causes me to choke on numerous types of foods very frequently. Soylent is a solution to this problem. Also, it helps balance my diet.
- jklinger410 9y agoMeanwhile I had like 3 boxes of powder and two of the bottles and had no problems whatsoever. Believe what you want, I guess.
- laretluval 9y agoI couldn't find people complaining of jaundice on the subreddit. Do you have a link?
- eljimmy 9y agoI've studied nutrition pretty heavily in the past as it pertained to my bodybuilding. They could have used so many better ingredients. Maltodextrin is the cheapest and worst complex carb you could have put in it. It's chemically a complex but really your body doesn't react much differently to it than other simple sugars.
- wdewind 9y agoControlling for calories and assuming you're not diabetic why does it matter what your source of carbohydrate is?
- L29Ah 9y agoEven if you're not a diabetic, blood glucose spikes affect your mental performance like a weak stimulant, creating mild mood swings. Also, high amounts of high GI foods stimulate body fat production.
- allover 9y ago> Also, high amounts of high GI foods stimulate body fat production. That idea, 'the insulin hypothesis', has not been proven. In fact there is now evidence that claim is false. (Paywalled study [1], summary in this article [2]). [1] http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v71/n3/full/ejcn2016260a.html http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v71/n3/full/ejcn2016260a.... [2] https://www.vox.com/2016/7/6/12105660/do-low-carb-diets-work https://www.vox.com/2016/7/6/12105660/do-low-carb-diets-work
- nopinsight 9y agoConsuming much simple carbs often results in a faster rise in blood sugar and gradual insulin resistance which may lead to diabetes in the long run. Disclaimer: Not an expert, but here is a reference: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/carbohydrates-and-blood-sugar/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/c...
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- k_sh 9y agoI'm going to need some citations on that one...
- eljimmy 9y agoIt's full of maltodextrin which is about as healthy as pounding sugar.
- L29Ah 9y agoI invest in starch instead and use sucralose as a sweetener.
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 9y agoThis seems like it would result in sub-optimal insulin spikes.
- sowhatquestion 9y agoThey've addressed this many times. There are different "grades" of maltodextrin with different glycemic indexes. Soylent uses a higher grade with a low glycemic index. Google "low DE maltodextrin." Soylent also uses other low-glycemic carbs such as isomaltulose.
- CuriouslyC 9y agoThe glycemic index of a carbohydrate is a bad measure of its quality. A better measure is the degree to which it is fermented by bacteria in the intestines. Furthermore, there is research demonstrating that carbohydrates consumed without the phytonutrients that normally accompany them in whole food increase markers of oxidative stress and inflamation. Soylent might be better than a frozen pizza or fast food, but in the big picture it's still shit compared to real food.
- rubatuga 9y agoDon’t forget that they use a calcium carbonate instead of calcium phosphate. Calcium carbonate has significantly less bioavailability and Soylent still claims to have 100% of your DV.
- QAPereo 9y agoIt wasn't so long ago that saying that here and elsewhere would get you shouted down, it's refreshing to see that the tide has finally turned.
- hueving 9y agoRegardless of whether you are right or wrong, your comment is just a massive appeal to authority containing no actual information. It contributes nothing but an insult.