For fun, I ordered a couple weeks of Soylent. On my first taste I realized it tasted almost exactly like a common but old Korean grain drink called Misugaru (미숫

For fun, I ordered a couple weeks of Soylent. On my first taste I realized it tasted almost exactly like a common but old Korean grain drink called Misugaru (미숫가루)[1]. It's hard to get exact nutrition information on Misugaru because even today it's usually ground up at the supermarket and put into nondescript bags. It's usually made with water or milk and chilled or mixed with ice. Like Soylent it dissolves poorly in whatever liquid you put it in, so you'll end up with big chunks of powder at the bottom of your cup. Leaving Soylent overnight usually resolves most of that, I have no idea if Misugaru does the same. Soylent is a little more "pancake/unsweetened cake batter" flavor than Misugaru, but the experience is remarkably similar. Soylent is weird stuff, I expect to get hungry shortly after drinking it, but it holds satiation longer than regular food for me. I usually drink it as a quick breakfast, and where I'd normally get hungry around 11:00-11:30, I'll still be fine till around 1:00-1:30pm. I've also started drinking it on weekends where my option is microwave garbage or fast food. I'll be fuller, longer, and can almost guarantee it will have a better nutrition profile than what I would have eaten. And it'll probably have been cheaper as well. As a result, I'm buying fewer groceries, and I have other stuff in my freezer that I'm not eating and seem to just take up space. I have fewer dishes to do as well. It's kind of weird how much time and space is taken up by food and food related activities and items and you don't realize it until you don't need them. The only real weird side effect I've had is that when I go for a couple days at more than half Soylent, I get really vivid dreams, often about eating red meat. They're kind of disturbing so I usually just keep to under half my meals. That way. I've read other people reporting similar meat cravings and vivid dreams as well when they dose up. One other benefit, when I decide to eat food, I'm doing it for flavor and experience, so I find I'm focusing on finding great foods to eat more than just looking for something to get me through the next few hours. It's paradoxically made me like good food more than I did. So on the whole: cheaper, more nutritious, more convenient offsets the boring taste for me. edit they also support a robust community of DIYers, which is a really smart way of growing the marketspace out. 1 - http://mykoreankitchen.com/2013/02/05/korean-multigrain-shakes-misutgaru/ http://mykoreankitchen.com/2013/02/05/korean-multigrain-shak...