The products share several common ingredients, Soylent said, but the investigation isn’t complete.
Hopefully they will share their findings, because they do share quite a bit of ingredients, but it is probably more about the sourcing of these ingredients rather than the ingredients themselves.
I made a quick script to analyze the two different products, and these are the shared ingredients between the powder and the bars:
I don’t consume Soylent (the brand), but something like this is of course not good for the general trust in Soylent-like products, which are growing in popularity, but also receive a ton of skepticism, criticism, and outright kneejerk reactions. Some people reportedly even ended up in intensive care.
To pick up on a few points on that New Yorker article:
Most humans are happy to eat real food, and crave it in its most natural form.
Nope. Most people eat whatever nice tasting processed junk they can easily buy in their nearest shops. That’s why there are so many fat, wheezing diabetics.
A strawberry picked at the height of summer. Fish pulled from a river and grilled over wood coals. Sourdough bread made from a twenty-year-old starter, and kneaded by hand. Wine grown on knobby vines, and aged in a dark cellar.
I don’t think that sounds like most people. Most people are overworked, underpaid, in a rush, and grabbing whatever they can. Most people eat eat crisps, chocolate, energy drinks, and beer.
And speaking of beer, how many people get ill from drinking too much of that? An on purpose, too!
One of the joys of living on the Yorkshire Coast is having fresh mackerel on a BBQ straight out of the North Sea after a few hours fishing from a kayak
I did it out the back of a boat in Mexico. The ones I caught were tiny but the guide caught quite large fish using just a line with a couple of hooks attached. They filleted straight away and made ceviche. That was a good day!
Sure, but this thread raises legitimate concerns about lents in general, the other one is saying that there is a different product. It also falsely claims that the other product is cheaper. It would be silly for the Huel staff to continue moderating an inflammatory thread that is based on a false premise, it’s just not constructive.
