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From the article: Rhinehart is well aware of the fact that Soylent isn’t the first beverage designed to replace meals. He considered using Ensure f

by muhuk 12y ago

From the article: Rhinehart is well aware of the fact that Soylent isn’t the first beverage designed to replace meals. He considered using Ensure for his initial no-eating experiment, but found it much too expensive, too sugary, too unpalatable, and sub-optimal in its ingredient make-up. The differentiating factor seems to be in the intended purpose. Meal-replacement shakes have never been presented as a food — something that you could (or might want to) live on for an extended period.

canjobear 12y ago
I hope that the companies making the existing Soylent-like products (though I have yet to find one that is unflavored and isn't targeted to dieting people or to bodybuilders...) take the hype around Soylent as a cue to market their stuff this way. I trust their nutritionists more than I trust the Soylent guys' knowledge, which (as I think I read somewhere) comes from just reading some nutrition textbooks.
- livingparadox 12y ago
  Currently they have employed an on-staff nutritionist. That part is unfortunately not very well known...
- aianus 12y ago
  Well, how do you think nutritionists are trained?
jes5199 12y ago
Yeah. I have trouble remembering to eat meals regularly - I guess I sort of just don't really like eating? - and Ensure is available at the drug store. It's perfect for that "oh crap I haven't eaten in 24 hours and my problem-solving skills are too compromised by low blood-sugar to figure out how to prepare or buy something that isn't garbage" state that I get into periodically. I'll try Soylent, but I don't see what's revolutionary about it.
- JoeAltmaier 12y ago
  They address that - Ensure is absolutely not meant as a food replacement. Its just a supplement. Its too sugary and unbalanced to live on for any length of time.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    You are wrong. Ensure comes in different forms and so e of them are total food replacements. You can get them for naso-gastric feeding. Ensure isn't marketed to the public as such because lawyers.
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by muhuk 12y ago

canjobear 12y ago

I hope that the companies making the existing Soylent-like products (though I have yet to find one that is unflavored and isn't targeted to dieting people or to bodybuilders...) take the hype around Soylent as a cue to market their stuff this way. I trust their nutritionists more than I trust the Soylent guys' knowledge, which (as I think I read somewhere) comes from just reading some nutrition textbooks.

livingparadox 12y ago
Currently they have employed an on-staff nutritionist. That part is unfortunately not very well known...
aianus 12y ago
Well, how do you think nutritionists are trained?

jes5199 12y ago

Yeah. I have trouble remembering to eat meals regularly - I guess I sort of just don't really like eating? - and Ensure is available at the drug store. It's perfect for that "oh crap I haven't eaten in 24 hours and my problem-solving skills are too compromised by low blood-sugar to figure out how to prepare or buy something that isn't garbage" state that I get into periodically. I'll try Soylent, but I don't see what's revolutionary about it.

JoeAltmaier 12y ago
They address that - Ensure is absolutely not meant as a food replacement. Its just a supplement. Its too sugary and unbalanced to live on for any length of time.
- DanBC 12y ago
  You are wrong. Ensure comes in different forms and so e of them are total food replacements. You can get them for naso-gastric feeding. Ensure isn't marketed to the public as such because lawyers.
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