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You should look into creating one of the DIY soylent recipes. I found this one particularly simple: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe

by fallat 12y ago

You should look into creating one of the DIY soylent recipes. I found this one particularly simple: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfection http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe... Sure it isn't THE soylent, but tons of people are collaborating on that one too.

dmix 12y ago
This is great, the only problem is all of those Amazon links next to the ingredients are for amazon.com, food products aren't available on amazon.ca. It's impossible to buy all of those with one click in Canada. I'd have to hunt down Canadian shipping sites or visit 3 different grocery stores to find most of those. Edit: Nevermind, read this comment: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfection#comment-1385374298 http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe... The amount of vitamins are dangerously higher than 100% recommended daily intake. Unlike Soylent which has mid-range http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfection#comment-1385374298 http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe... I'd stay away from this recipe.
- imanaccount247 12y ago
  >The amount of vitamins are dangerously higher than 100% recommended daily intake No they are not. Your comment link doesn't work, but the only comments I saw complaining about excessive micronutrients were baseless fearmongering. None of the micronutrients are even close to the TUL. All of the very high ones there are B complex vitamins that simply do not have an upper limit on intake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin
  - dmix 12y ago
    If you sort the comments by votes, it's #2, here is a quote: > subjects taking vitamin A supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer than subjects taking a placebo. A third trial, SELECT, found that dietary supplementation with vitamin E (400 IU/d of all rac-α-tocopheryl acetate) in healthy men significantly increased their risk of prostate cancer. When I see recipes that contain micronutrient levels that are orders of magnitude higher than the recommended daily intake" > This recipe has off-the-charts values for some nutrients, including 3000% DRI of thiamin, 2483% DRI of riboflavin, and 2583% DRI vitamin B6. Here’s a fun quote from the NIH office of dietary supplements (link below): “taking high levels of vitamin B6 from supplements for a year or longer can cause severe nerve damage, leading people to lose control of their bodily movements.” He backed his claims up with citations.
    - imanaccount247 12y ago
      Yes, that's the one I thought you meant. It is exactly what I described. 3000% of those water soluable B vitamins is perfectly fine, and people routinely get that in their diets already. There is no upper limit on them, excess is simply passed. His vitamin A study is completely irrelevant. Those studies are people taking 100 times the daily intake, which is well above the TUL. That is literally studies saying "if we poison people they get sick". 2.2x the daily intake is not 100x. B6 is still way below the TUL, which is set at 10% of the amount that has been shown to cause damage. You would need to eat 30 times what this provides to be at risk. As I said, that is all fearmongering nonsense.
      - dmix 12y ago
        Interesting, thanks for clearing that up. Nutritional science is such murky waters.

by fallat 12y ago

dmix 12y ago

This is great, the only problem is all of those Amazon links next to the ingredients are for amazon.com, food products aren't available on amazon.ca. It's impossible to buy all of those with one click in Canada. I'd have to hunt down Canadian shipping sites or visit 3 different grocery stores to find most of those. Edit: Nevermind, read this comment: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfection#comment-1385374298 http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe... The amount of vitamins are dangerously higher than 100% recommended daily intake. Unlike Soylent which has mid-range http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfection#comment-1385374298 http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe... I'd stay away from this recipe.

imanaccount247 12y ago
>The amount of vitamins are dangerously higher than 100% recommended daily intake No they are not. Your comment link doesn't work, but the only comments I saw complaining about excessive micronutrients were baseless fearmongering. None of the micronutrients are even close to the TUL. All of the very high ones there are B complex vitamins that simply do not have an upper limit on intake. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin
- dmix 12y ago
  If you sort the comments by votes, it's #2, here is a quote: > subjects taking vitamin A supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer than subjects taking a placebo. A third trial, SELECT, found that dietary supplementation with vitamin E (400 IU/d of all rac-α-tocopheryl acetate) in healthy men significantly increased their risk of prostate cancer. When I see recipes that contain micronutrient levels that are orders of magnitude higher than the recommended daily intake" > This recipe has off-the-charts values for some nutrients, including 3000% DRI of thiamin, 2483% DRI of riboflavin, and 2583% DRI vitamin B6. Here’s a fun quote from the NIH office of dietary supplements (link below): “taking high levels of vitamin B6 from supplements for a year or longer can cause severe nerve damage, leading people to lose control of their bodily movements.” He backed his claims up with citations.
  - imanaccount247 12y ago
    Yes, that's the one I thought you meant. It is exactly what I described. 3000% of those water soluable B vitamins is perfectly fine, and people routinely get that in their diets already. There is no upper limit on them, excess is simply passed. His vitamin A study is completely irrelevant. Those studies are people taking 100 times the daily intake, which is well above the TUL. That is literally studies saying "if we poison people they get sick". 2.2x the daily intake is not 100x. B6 is still way below the TUL, which is set at 10% of the amount that has been shown to cause damage. You would need to eat 30 times what this provides to be at risk. As I said, that is all fearmongering nonsense.
    - dmix 12y ago
      Interesting, thanks for clearing that up. Nutritional science is such murky waters.