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by chasing 13y ago

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wahsd 13y ago
Soylent lulz as if that hasn't been done and done again. It's just snake oil under different name.
- aianus 13y ago
  Please point me to an existing product I can buy today. I've never looked forward to a product launch as much as this.
  - DanBC 13y ago
    Ensure (http://ensure.com/ http://ensure.com/) Fortisip (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip// https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)
    - aianus 13y ago
      Which Ensure is formulated to replace food entirely? As far as I can tell, if I drank enough ensure to get 2400 calories, the other nutrients would be out of wack. As in, a given portion does not have the same DV% of each nutrient. I'd never heard of Fortisip but from what I can tell it and ensure are both considerably more expensive than regular food, and actually more expensive than eating out.
      - DanBC 13y ago
        I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to give you potentially dangerous advice for you to fuck about with while experimenting on your nutritional intake. Recommended daily calories are 2000 for adults. One week of soylent is $65. 48 bottles of Ensure Plus is about $80. 6 bottles of Ensure Plus would be 2100 calories.
        aianus 13y ago
        To be fair, $65 is the pre-order price and includes a shaker bottle (worth $10) and free shipping. Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%. I don't think Ensure Plus is a substitute good for Soylent. It's a supplement not a food replacement and it's formulated and priced as such.
        dragonwriter 13y ago
        > Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150% Most nutrients with recommended amounts are healthy at higher than recommended amounts within fairly wide bounds, but the usually-listed recommended amount for Sodium is much higher than is minimally necessary, and is actually the upper limit recommended for about half the US population. So, actually, I'm not surprised that something intended as a broadly-usable food replacement would go over on most nutrients and under on Sodium. http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssodium/ http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssodium/ Nutrition isn't one-size-fits-all.
        DanBC 13y ago
        > It's a supplement not a food replacement You are wrong. (http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retail http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retai...) > For interim sole-source nutrition. edit: removed unnecessarily grumpy sentence.
        aianus 13y ago
        Interim means provisional or temporary. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence. I have no idea whether Soylent is actually safe as a permanent sole-source nutrition solution but that's what they're marketing themselves as, and Ensure is not.
      - MDS100 13y ago
        They are not marketed this way, because the producers are not insane and/or incompetent. Soylent is more expensive than eating food.
        aianus 13y ago
        Not if you take into account the time and effort of cooking/cleaning/shopping. Soylent is prepared food. It's a substitute for cheap restaurants like Taco Bell or Subway, not cooking rice and beans at home.
  - rusabd 13y ago
    fatty fish or fatty meat
  - gotrecruit 13y ago
    EAS Myoplex? There are a myriad of other Meal Replacement Powders on the market that has been around for decades, some of them designed to completely replace meals with specific ratios such as 40/40/20 (protein, carbs, fat) or more commonly, low-carb versions. Seriously, go to bodybuilding.com and look under the meal replacement category and you'll find a bunch of products that has figured this shit out decades before soylent.

cough(Soylent)cough

by chasing 13y ago

cough(Soylent)cough

wahsd 13y ago

Soylent lulz as if that hasn't been done and done again. It's just snake oil under different name.

aianus 13y ago
Please point me to an existing product I can buy today. I've never looked forward to a product launch as much as this.
- DanBC 13y ago
  Ensure (http://ensure.com/ http://ensure.com/) Fortisip (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip// https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)
  - aianus 13y ago
    Which Ensure is formulated to replace food entirely? As far as I can tell, if I drank enough ensure to get 2400 calories, the other nutrients would be out of wack. As in, a given portion does not have the same DV% of each nutrient. I'd never heard of Fortisip but from what I can tell it and ensure are both considerably more expensive than regular food, and actually more expensive than eating out.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      I'm not a doctor and I'm not going to give you potentially dangerous advice for you to fuck about with while experimenting on your nutritional intake. Recommended daily calories are 2000 for adults. One week of soylent is $65. 48 bottles of Ensure Plus is about $80. 6 bottles of Ensure Plus would be 2100 calories.
      - aianus 13y ago
        To be fair, $65 is the pre-order price and includes a shaker bottle (worth $10) and free shipping. Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150%. I don't think Ensure Plus is a substitute good for Soylent. It's a supplement not a food replacement and it's formulated and priced as such.
        dragonwriter 13y ago
        > Looking at the nutritional info if I drank 6 bottles of Ensure Plus each day I would be ingesting 360% of the recommended amount of Manganese and only 60% of the recommended amount of sodium. The rest of the listed nutrients would be at about 150% Most nutrients with recommended amounts are healthy at higher than recommended amounts within fairly wide bounds, but the usually-listed recommended amount for Sodium is much higher than is minimally necessary, and is actually the upper limit recommended for about half the US population. So, actually, I'm not surprised that something intended as a broadly-usable food replacement would go over on most nutrients and under on Sodium. http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssodium/ http://www.cdc.gov/features/dssodium/ Nutrition isn't one-size-fits-all.
        DanBC 13y ago
        > It's a supplement not a food replacement You are wrong. (http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retail http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-plus-retai...) > For interim sole-source nutrition. edit: removed unnecessarily grumpy sentence.
        aianus 13y ago
        Interim means provisional or temporary. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence. I have no idea whether Soylent is actually safe as a permanent sole-source nutrition solution but that's what they're marketing themselves as, and Ensure is not.
    - MDS100 13y ago
      They are not marketed this way, because the producers are not insane and/or incompetent. Soylent is more expensive than eating food.
      - aianus 13y ago
        Not if you take into account the time and effort of cooking/cleaning/shopping. Soylent is prepared food. It's a substitute for cheap restaurants like Taco Bell or Subway, not cooking rice and beans at home.
- rusabd 13y ago
  fatty fish or fatty meat
- gotrecruit 13y ago
  EAS Myoplex? There are a myriad of other Meal Replacement Powders on the market that has been around for decades, some of them designed to completely replace meals with specific ratios such as 40/40/20 (protein, carbs, fat) or more commonly, low-carb versions. Seriously, go to bodybuilding.com and look under the meal replacement category and you'll find a bunch of products that has figured this shit out decades before soylent.