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I've received my shipment of Soylent. I read many negative and positive reviews. I've been on it for three weeks now and am loving it so far. In fact, I find myself craving it sometimes. It hasn't replace my meals completely, but as someone who has been skipping breakfast for most of my life I now get the nutrition I need in the mornings and my life has considerably improved as a consequence.

The concept of Soylent is wonderful. No one is saying it should completely replace all meals, but it should be able to do so, otherwise it wouldn't work as a single meal either. The joy of cooking still exists, you choose whether you want a quick meal or a longer one. I would still never turn down a well cooked meal for Soylent, but I'm happy to know I have some in my cupboard for when I need it.

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"No one is saying it should completely replace all meals, but it should be able to do so, otherwise it wouldn't work as a single meal either."

I don't think that follows; we don't expect any other single meal we eat to necessarily be able to a complete diet on its own. I can well imagine it to be far easier to make a 1-meal-a-day replacement than an all-food replacement.

Nothing else we regularly eat is an any-meal replacement. They're all imbalanced. So if Soylent wants to be able to replace any meal it should be balanced enough to replace them all. That's what I meant.

> The concept of Soylent is wonderful. No one is saying it should completely replace all meals,

That's exactly the claim they made when they were raising funds. Along with the dubious health claims.

> "What if you never had to worry about food again?"

> "For anyone that struggles with allergies, heartburn, acid reflux or digestion, has trouble controlling weight or cholesterol, or simply doesn't have the means to eat well, soylent is for you."

> "Soylent frees you from the time and money spent shopping, cooking and cleaning, puts you in excellent health,"

> "By taking years to spoil"

>"there is much evidence that it is considerably healthier than a typical diet."

This is fraudulent horseshit and it's kind of surprising they got away with it.

The new website avoids making medical claims, but still says that you can live off it entirely.

In none of those statements do I read them saying you should replace all food with Soylent. The first quote is simply setting the tone for a future where that could be a possibility. I don't doubt this would help people with acid reflux and other similar symptoms. Soylent has freed me from shopping trips and expensive lunches. Soylent does take years to spoil.

I really don't know what you're getting at. This is much better than beer commercials promoting that your best times involved beer.

>>"there is much evidence that it is considerably healthier than a typical diet."

>This is fraudulent horseshit and it's kind of surprising they got away with it.

Considering that more people are overweight in the USA than not, it's not fraudulent at all. The average American diet is atrocious.

They had no evidence at all when they wrote that statement.

I just had my first soylent 'meal'. I am planning to use it as my breakfast meal too.

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