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wasoxygen  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Year with Soylent

    I'd like to see a rigorous, third-party study on not just what's in it but also how the ingredients interact with each other...

Sure, that would be great, but are you that careful with the things you eat now? The Soylent guy seems to be a bit of a salesman, but I think his response to fears of dietary harm is reasonable:

    I'm touched so many people are concerned about my intake of possible unknown essential nutrients. No one seemed to worry about me when I lived on burritos and ramen and actually was deficient of many known essential nutrients. The body is pretty robust. If you can survive on what most Americans or Somalians eat, you can surely survive on Soylent.

I'm with mk though, one meal replacement a day is plenty, with some variety in the other meals to try and balance things out.