> compared to a randomly sampled population consuming the nutritional equivalent in natural products. Define "nutritional equivalent" and "natural products"?

> compared to a randomly sampled population consuming the nutritional equivalent in natural products. Define "nutritional equivalent" and "natural products"? Do you just want the same levels of carbs/fat/protein as Soylent has, or do you want to also get the same levels of iron, sodium, vitamins, etc.? The more demanding you make that condition, the closer you get to just replicating Soylent. ("We could replace this artificial ingredient with that natural one, but the natural one has less salt, so to make up for that we have to...") And it hardly seems fair to compare Soylent against a natural equivalent of Soylent, which doesn't currently exist to my knowledge, instead of against people's actual real-life diets.