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Is anybody actually living off of this stuff? After following them for a while I got the impression they were a glorified Ensure and gave up.

adamwong246 12y ago
I do. I eat Soylent for lunch and breakfast.
- copperx 12y ago
  Why Soylent and not Ensure?
  - adamwong246 12y ago
    They are very different products. Like I said before, compare the nutritional information for the 2 and you'll see they nothing alike.
  - frewsxcv 12y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_this_different_from.. https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_this_d....
  - fizzbatter 12y ago
    Because if you look at the nutritional facts Ensure is no where near what Soylent is, nor is it designed to be. Not only is it missing the majority of the daily requirement percentages (partially or entirely), but of the 11% of your daily carbs that it does give you, literally half of that is sugar. Sugar. Why you think Ensure is something you can live off of, is beyond me.
GigabyteCoin 12y ago
I certainly couldn't. I barely managed to swallow the grittiness of the mixture after following their instructions and shaking up my first batch a few months ago. I even put it in my vitamix on high for a while and it still tasted like undisolved powders sitting in the bottom of a jug of water. I ended up throwing out the remainder of the first mixture, and the rest of my week's supply has been sitting in storage ever since. Apparently there is a secondary market out there where dissapointed early adopters can sell their soylent to others, which speaks volumes about it's quality/taste/texture... that people who waited over a year for delivery can't even finish the stuff and want to pawn it off to somebody else. [0] [0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-waited-five-months-for-my-soylent-and-now-i-cant-get-rid-of-it http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-waited-five-months-for-my...

adamwong246 12y ago

I do. I eat Soylent for lunch and breakfast.

copperx 12y ago
Why Soylent and not Ensure?
- adamwong246 12y ago
  They are very different products. Like I said before, compare the nutritional information for the 2 and you'll see they nothing alike.
- frewsxcv 12y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_this_different_from.. https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/wiki/faq#wiki_how_is_this_d....
- fizzbatter 12y ago
  Because if you look at the nutritional facts Ensure is no where near what Soylent is, nor is it designed to be. Not only is it missing the majority of the daily requirement percentages (partially or entirely), but of the 11% of your daily carbs that it does give you, literally half of that is sugar. Sugar. Why you think Ensure is something you can live off of, is beyond me.

GigabyteCoin 12y ago

I certainly couldn't. I barely managed to swallow the grittiness of the mixture after following their instructions and shaking up my first batch a few months ago. I even put it in my vitamix on high for a while and it still tasted like undisolved powders sitting in the bottom of a jug of water. I ended up throwing out the remainder of the first mixture, and the rest of my week's supply has been sitting in storage ever since. Apparently there is a secondary market out there where dissapointed early adopters can sell their soylent to others, which speaks volumes about it's quality/taste/texture... that people who waited over a year for delivery can't even finish the stuff and want to pawn it off to somebody else. [0] [0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-waited-five-months-for-my-soylent-and-now-i-cant-get-rid-of-it http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-waited-five-months-for-my...