New Soylent Website

soylent.me

8 points·saiko-chriskun··11 comments

I wish they had a sampler. It seems crazy to spend $85 without trying it or knowing if you'll like it.

Also at $12/day it seems pretty expensive. I thought a selling point was that it would be cheaper than alternatives like Ensure.

Soylent is a scam. Also, it will probably give you diabetes in the long run.

To be fair, so will a typical American diet.

I actually see this claim/worry relatively frequently.. i wish someone would actually address it.

Note that i've bought a full month of it already, so it's not stopping me.. i'd just like actual conversation on the subject heh

High carbohydrate diets can over time lead to insulin resistance which can lead to type 2 diabetes. Soylent has 225 net (total minus fiber) grams of carbohydrates, 15 grams of fat, and 114 grams of protein in your daily serving. 225 is high but not outrageous.

How many carbs are good to be healthy?

says the user created one hour ago...

I think it's more like $9/day

When it's half that I will start to get interested. I can't see what advantage it has over food, other than fad appeal, when it's more expensive.

I already spend more than $9/day usually. Definitely worth it over here.

It's a better/more complete nutritional product than Ensure (which has a lot of things that some people, like myself, can't drink).

And $12/day is actually really inexpensive for a nutritionally complete meal. A lot of people (especially the people this is geared towards for now) will easily spend that on one meal. Reducing my entire food budget to $250/month would be a dream come true.

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