/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12977397
>What's wrong with soylent?
Fair question.
Soylent is the result of some autistic software developer's amateur kickstarter project from a few years ago who had no formal education on nutrition or food processing and just came up with a bunch of ingredients to throw together based on what he Google-ed about human nutritional needs. There have been multiple occasions since he first started where he fucked up badly and had way too much of some harmful ingredient.
It's also notorious for causing GI problems (original was stuffed with way too much fiber, and people still complain about stomach problems from it even after he reduced the fiber content). And the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned it for not meeting their basic meal replacement standards.
Was also sued over unlabeled lead / cadmium quantities (lead levels are 25 times higher than prop 65 limit).
Soylent bars were recalled due to all the nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea they caused.
Powder was recalled due to a suspected contamination problem which still hasn't ever been conclusively identified (company itself blamed algal flour but they have no evidence to support this and the algal flour supplier vehemently denied having anything to do with their problems).
And Soylent uses artificial sweeteners which I make a point of avoiding in anything I eat or drink (might also be the real cause for all the stomach problems Soylent is associated with).
Really there's no good reason to opt for Soylent over far longer standing legitimate meal replacement options like Boost.
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