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Soylent Acquired by Starco Brands
- tunesmith 4y agoI liked Soylent for a little while, but something about the mixture of fiber and liquid was something that my stomach very much did not like in terms of indigestion. I eventually gave up on it, and haven't heard much about it at all over the past 2-3 years.
- myvoiceismypass 4y agoI’ve had the opposite reaction - on days when my acid reflux bothers me and makes eating seem not fun, I have no problem ingesting a bottle of Soylent (Original flavor)
- catchnear4321 4y agoThey drifted from their stated purpose early. It’s little more than a brand now. Makes sense to finally finish selling out. They let down their core audience a long time ago. It used to be a powder, exclusively.
- testTED 4y agoMany competitors and community recipes.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoI've tried Joylent and Huel. Soylent 1.5 is still my favorite. Probably a similar diy recipe I could try. Speaking of DIY Soylent, I wonder if this new company will still be into that.
- aidenn0 4y agoEvery revision of Soylent made it more unpleasant for me (but better for my wife). They seemed to optimize mouth-feel over taste, and it was undrinkable for me somewhere around 1.5
- arcticbull 4y agoTheir goal was to make it as bland as possible for a while under the premise that if it had any flavor, you'd get tired of it. Though the 1.0 was pretty fishy - in the sense it tasted of fish, not suspicious.
- testTED 4y agoFish oil additive will do that. Those were the days.
- ashwagary 4y agoI enjoyed both 1.2 and 1.3, not sure what it tastes like now but heard the shelf life has dropped due to the changes.
- shp0ngle 4y agoThey still sell the powder. The problem from what I read is that the powder market is just too small and there isn’t much more space to expand. They apparently still sell both the bottled version and the powder version. (I stopped giving a damn when I got married. Cooking for 3 people is a different story than cooking for 1.)
- catchnear4321 4y agoThey sell a powder long diverged from the older formulations.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoFor better or worse?
- catchnear4321 4y agoDepends who you ask. Based upon the community that developed around recreating the earlier formulas with a recipe and product lists, I’d say for the worse. Based upon individual accounts of those I know, largely worse. Some might like the changes. It is far easier to buy the liquid form than the powder, so that says plenty as well.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI remember liking the liquid drink they sold back in early 2016. Have you heard anything about the drinks getting worse too?
- catchnear4321 4y agoI have not consumed soylent in years.
- nickstinemates 4y agoMade my heart feel like it was going to explode.
- maegul 4y agoYep, me too. The recipe I was drinking had a high amount of potassium in it. There isn’t a strict guideline on how much potassium you should consume, so there tends to be plenty of it in soylent or similar drinks/powders (I’m not sure I actually ever checked official soylent, but those available to me at the time) for some reason probably due to manufacturing convenience. I always figured it was this high potassium content that caused heart problems for some. Gave up on the concept after realising this and the heart issue never going away.
- jerlam 4y agoI also tried out Soylent with similar results, but I figured it was just the nature of the product. I then tried Huel, Joylent, Mana, and Super Body Fuel - none had the gastrointestinal problems of Soylent. Good branding, marketing, and distribution; terrible product.
- EamonnMR 4y agoI've been using this for breakfast for years now. Hope the acquisition doesn't mess up a good thing. And, hell, congratulations are in order I suppose. I will credit Soylent with helping change the way I thought about food.
- bbbbzzz1 4y agoI understood the powder and the mission to be super cheap nutrition but then they pivoted to expensive bottled drinks and marketed it to yuppies. I don't get how they are different from ensure outside of the marketing
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- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoEnsure isn't vegan
- mike_d 4y agoEnsure sells a vegan version now.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoI had no idea. Thank you
- annexrichmond 4y agoContains Sunflower Oil and Canola Oil. Would much rather be consuming dairy fats.
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- tkzed49 4y agoCan you explain your thoughts? I remember there being some concern about the health impacts of seed oils, but I'm not finding anything conclusive. This article seems to cover quite a few arguments: https://www.consumerreports.org/healthy-eating/do-seed-oils-make-you-sick-a1363483895/ https://www.consumerreports.org/healthy-eating/do-seed-oils-...
- chihuahua 4y agoIt would be a shame to have evidence-based reasoning get in the way of a wholesome campaign of demonization.
- berjin 4y agoThe extraction process turns the oil rancid but it's supposedly okay because there is a process to remove the bad odor. The main concern is that when heated polyunsaturated fats convert to transfats which are bad; the article claims it's fine to cook with as you're renewing the oil frequently but I have doubts it's safe as they admit the process is still happening. Old fryer oil smells odly nasty - do you want even a fraction of that in your home cooking? Anecdotally, a family member gets headaches from consuming uncooked sunflower oil but olive oil and other fats are fine. I noticed this years before the anti seed oil memes. Virgin olive oil (not the mafia fake crap) is really great, as is beef tallow.
- mardifoufs 4y agoThat's pretty interesting since in my home country, Morocco, cooking with virgin olive oil is not recommended at all. In fact, even in though my family has owned olive tree farms for centuries we still make sure to buy "modern oil" (as it is called in moroccan) for cooking even if fresh, pure olive oil is available in literal tons. I've heard that it is mostly a persistent myth, and olive oil is perfectly safe for cooking (even at high temps), but my mom would still never let me cook or fry anything with olive oil :). Interesting contrast!
- mike_d 4y ago> he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco This is a strange SPAC onto the OTC markets? Starco's biggest products (also acquisitions) are canned whip cream with vodka in it and a deodorant endorsed by Kobe Bryant. They have a $44m market cap.
- RileyJames 4y agoWhat does that suggest about the valuation soylent received through this acquisition? Noting they raised $133m in capital.
- rjieger 4y agoThe 8-K says an aggregate of up to 165,336,430 restricted shares of Class A common stock. The share price of Starco is currently $0.20 but was closer to $0.10 last year. There are other details in the 8-k but best guess is the deal was valued around $25m.
- actionfromafar 4y agoPhew, I thought for a second Soylentnews had been acquired.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoI don't see the point of this stuff. Why not just eat food?
- jack_pp 4y agoFood is typically more expensive per calorie than Soylent and competitors (should) be. Also requires time to shop for groceries, prepare food, wash dishes. If you're on the go these are perfect, in theory. I lived for a month in Amsterdam in 2017 and didn't have the money to rent / book an apt with a kitchen so I stayed in hostels. The problem then became food cost, a meal in amsterdam was around 15-20$ so 3 meals a day would be around 70-80$ which was too much for me so I went with JimmyJoy which is a dutch competitor and that reduced my costs to around 6$ per day. Now it wasn't perfect, I had a LOT of gas which I managed to reduce by making the shake with mint tea but the freedom and cheapness of it made me very happy
- favaq 4y agoYou are comparing soylent to eating out. Most of us compare soylent to eating at home, and soylent is much more expensive. Not to mention it tastes like dirt compared to, you know, food.
- zikduruqe 4y ago"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Defense_of_Food I still find it unfathomable, that we as human beings, supposedly the smartest creatures on earth cannot figure out what to put in our mouths.
- voisin 4y ago> I still find it unfathomable Fathom this: some people make money, and lots of it, by confusing us about what to put in our mouths.
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- detourdog 4y agoSoylent showed me their colors at the beginning. I don't remember where but I funded the original effort becuase they offered a stainless steel travel mug with Soylent stamped on it. Needless to say it took forever and they never delivered the Stainless steel mug with Soylent on it. That was all I wanted I thought it was a good joke. They proved their shadiness immediately to me.
- aojdwhsd 4y agoDoes anyone have recommendations for meal replacement drinks like Soylent? I've been consuming Ample exclusively Monday-Friday for quite a while but it's super expensive. I've been looking at Huel since it's much cheaper but looking for opinions, especially from people who have tried both. I tried Soylent before but I felt hungry pretty much immediately afterward.
- SSLy 4y agoJimmy Joy, Supersonic, Yfood, Mana.
- mdekkers 4y agoHuel’s quality control is …. Creative
- chucksta 4y agoMeaning?
- ajdude 4y agoEnsure?
- Uupis 4y agoI've been a fan of Queal[0] for numerous years now. When these meals became popular I tried out a handful, and ended up liking Queal the most. Have stuck with it ever since. A couple years back I tried out Huel, but I didn't quite get used to the flavoring. I find Queal's to be much less artificial-feeling and subtler. But it's probably all subjective. - [0] https://queal.com/ https://queal.com/
- yegle 4y agoSoylent has a low Glycemic Index which might be why you don't feel full after consuming, despite having enough calories intake: https://soylent.com/blogs/news/soylent-has-a-low-glycemic-index https://soylent.com/blogs/news/soylent-has-a-low-glycemic-in... Does any other meal replacement product have a published Glycemic Index number?
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