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Comment by IgorPartola | Hacker News Reader

Is anyone really surprised that this is happening? Nutrition is hard. Nutritionists don't get it. Would you trust a nutritionist by trade to program your pacemaker? If not, then why do you trust an engineer to formulate your food?

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Ensure and related products in this space have a lot of research behind them, which Soylent appears to have completely ignored. However, this particular problem appears to be a basic processed food production screwup.

Where's this research, out of curiosity? Ensure also has a very different nutritional profile than Soylent. Just because it's a liquid food doesn't mean it was designed with the same goals in mind, and all the details suggest it wasn't.

I don't understand why they felt the need to pull the product. Lots of foods don't sit well with certain people, for whatever reason. If it makes you sick then don't eat it. As long as it contains food grade ingredients that are non-toxic then it's not on them.

This appears to have absolutely nothing to do with nutrition. It's contamination. People are getting sick hours after eating.

"Our tests all came back negative for food pathogens, toxins or outside contamination."

http://blog.soylent.com/post/152400464282/soylent-bar-powder...

Yeah I saw that. That just shows the test were unhelpful, in a direct sense. They might not even have any contaminated batches left.

Because it worked?

If my pace maker was running better after the nutritionist tinkered, and continued to do so except for some completely unrelated issue, I'd let that nutritionist figure out the completely unrelated issue and get back to making my pace maker work smoothly, as he/she had been doing for years.

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