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I don't understand why I should trust a food product produced by a team[1] that has NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER with nutritional science. And someone please explain why a dietary supplement needs a CTO?

[1] "The Team" section of this page https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

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People eat things like Pop-Tarts, Skittles, Grape Soda and other "food products" like that without researching the team behind them. Does it really matter what the team members' positions are?

I would trust a company like Soylent over General Mills until I have reason to believe otherwise.

edit: By the way General Mills also has a CTO: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-simonett/5a/829/8a

Because Pop-Tarts and Skittles aren't being sold as a food replacement. I don't know about you, but I'm going to hold someone making a "snack" to a much lower standard than someone selling a product marketed with, "Here, you can use this instead of eating."

Yeah, that's sort of true... but I think people do see these snacks as real food. Pop-tarts are marketed as a breakfast food - this makes it seem as though you could eat pop-tarts in the morning before you start your day instead of a fruit salad or something more "time-tested"

It is not expected that you live only with Pop-Tarts, Skittles or Grape Soda.

You might not expect that, but people people still try. I can only speak of my New Zealand education but I didn't learn what a macronutrient was until I was 21 and researched it myself.

Didn't your mother taught you that you have to eat your vegetables?

But they have a VP of customer success.

You don't have if you don't want to. If they aren't closing any need you have.

Most of the crap people eat nowadays is far worse. If you take a poll of the most consistently eaten food on a daily basis you'll get results that make you wonder how we even survive.

The creator of Soylent even goes so far to say that it's not a dietary supplement but an alternative to the coffee/tea/soda that people drink on a regular basis.

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