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Interesting that Soylent did not get mentioned since they once seemed to be the poster child for this movement. Are they still a player?

glup 8y ago
I think the bout of people getting sick in late 2016 / early 2017 dampened enthusiasm significantly.
- aphistic 8y ago
  They're just not the "latest and greatest" any more. They've been around for awhile and it's just business as usual. They still have a number of consumers and they just started selling in brick-and-mortar stores (I believe it was WalMart).
cookingrobot 8y ago
Soylent is sold at Walmart now, so it seems they’re still around. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Soylent-Meal-Replacement-Drink-Cacao-14-FL-oz-12-Ct/149391686 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Soylent-Meal-Replacement-Drink-Ca...
saurik 8y ago
This is an article about the movement to produce similar foods to ones that already exist without the need for animals; specifically, they discuss the stables of milk, eggs, and meat. The people in this space are not gunning for "something that happens to vaguely serve the same nutrition goal", but are trying to provide stuff like egg whites that are so similar to real ones they can substitute when baking and meat designed for people who, well, actually like eating actual meat. Soylent is part of a mostly unrelated movement that instead tries to provide a fundamentally different premise for the food itself. I would not expect Soylent to be mentioned in this article. Reading your comment and other peoples' responses, I had assumed I would be seeing their competitors (mealsquares, huel, etc.) be brought up, but no one from the entire space Soylent is in was mentioned, as that just isn't what this article is about. Maybe the title was confusing from that perspective, as this is more "reengineering the meal" instead of "reinventing the meal"?

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Interesting that Soylent did not get mentioned since they once seemed to be the poster child for this movement. Are they still a player?

by CoffeeDregs 8y ago

glup 8y ago
I think the bout of people getting sick in late 2016 / early 2017 dampened enthusiasm significantly.
- aphistic 8y ago
  They're just not the "latest and greatest" any more. They've been around for awhile and it's just business as usual. They still have a number of consumers and they just started selling in brick-and-mortar stores (I believe it was WalMart).
cookingrobot 8y ago
Soylent is sold at Walmart now, so it seems they’re still around. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Soylent-Meal-Replacement-Drink-Cacao-14-FL-oz-12-Ct/149391686 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Soylent-Meal-Replacement-Drink-Ca...
saurik 8y ago
This is an article about the movement to produce similar foods to ones that already exist without the need for animals; specifically, they discuss the stables of milk, eggs, and meat. The people in this space are not gunning for "something that happens to vaguely serve the same nutrition goal", but are trying to provide stuff like egg whites that are so similar to real ones they can substitute when baking and meat designed for people who, well, actually like eating actual meat. Soylent is part of a mostly unrelated movement that instead tries to provide a fundamentally different premise for the food itself. I would not expect Soylent to be mentioned in this article. Reading your comment and other peoples' responses, I had assumed I would be seeing their competitors (mealsquares, huel, etc.) be brought up, but no one from the entire space Soylent is in was mentioned, as that just isn't what this article is about. Maybe the title was confusing from that perspective, as this is more "reengineering the meal" instead of "reinventing the meal"?