Soylent

[Salubrious27]

The stuff basically just came out, so I have yet to try it myself.  It's basically a meal replacement shake that provides "everything the body needs."  I'm curious to see if anyone has ordered it for themselves.

https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body

[Projectile Vomit]

The fact is has 'soy' in the name suggests it has soy as an ingredient. If this is so, I suspect it's bad news. At any rate, I have no interest in replacing my varied diet with a single food that's been manufactured. Doesn't sound like an evolutionarily adaptive thing to do.

[Sorentus]

ya ive seen it lol, thats basically an elemental diet made of soy rather then whey. the guy is an idiot because he assume that we can live of just synthetic nutriment. this might work if you dont already suffer from a chronic illness and you might appear healthy but clearly we cant all live of that, did he never heard of food intolerance? Some people cant tolerate soy or rice and that he seems to think that we can all live of that, nope. I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years or so he get diagnosed with cancer or something else.

its the same principle as these idiots claiming "go SCD/GAPS and you'll heal ANY disease" no sorry life isn't as simple as, follow a healthy diet and any symptoms will be gone this goes for raw paleo as well.

[Salubrious27]

I'm still relatively new to this Paleo thing.  I've been looking around online to see how strict people are with the diet, and some only live by it.   Others "cheat" every once in awhile.  With this (as well as any other meal shakes), I thought it would be okay to throw in every now and then.  I still have much to learn.

[raw-al]

S27,
Firstly probably a lot "cheat" including me, however there is a price to pay, and consuming soy exacts a very high price.

Problem is that as the two previous posters have said, soy is bad news, lots of discussions on it. It messes with your hormones (estrogen) is my understanding.

A relative of mine was drinking soymilk, daily, trying to get pregnant and she was unable for a long time till she gave up soy. Few months later she got pregnant. Males have problems with the effect that it has on estrogen. She didn't like cow's milk so she thought that soy was a good substitute. That's the power of advertising for you in that the milk barons have succeeded in convincing PPL that you "need" milk. You don't "need" any particular thing.

Soy is basically a starvation food. Civilizations have grown up consuming it, but they do not thrive, just survive.

[eveheart]

I read the soylent website and I see that there is "hardly any" soy in the product, so the product's name must be based on the science-fiction food product. I see from the website that a preliminary ingredient list hasn't been released because they are still finalizing the formula.

I see that soylent has a wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food_substitute) with a run-down of the history of the CEO's personal journey to develop this product. In that article, the pre-ordering procedure was referred to as ]crowdfunding. This is repeated on the soylent site, which advises that the pre-order campaign is so that "[f]unds raised from the campaign will be used primarily to cover up front manufacturing costs...." Even the website host is a crowdfunding site. Maybe I'm just one of those honesty freaks, but your off-the-cuff original post does not convince me that you just wanted to find out if anyone here has pre-ordered soylent.

What is your experience with this paleo thing? Why would you "cheat" with a meal shake? Which soylent Team member are you? I'd guess you are David (VP Business Development/Sales).

[TylerDurden]

There was a film in the 1970s called "Soylent Green", all about a series of biscuits made from human bodies. 

[Projectile Vomit]

I was thinking that when I first saw the original post, that this might just be spam. Maybe just delete the thread?

[NinjaNight]

I have looked into this and a lot of the posters here are assuming it has soy just because that happens to be the first 3 letters in the name "soylent." The truth is the official formula contains only a very small amount of soy in the form of soy lecithin as an emulsifier. There is a large community in the DYI (Do It Yourself) Soylent forum who make their own recipes and many if not most of these contain no soy whatsoever. The whole idea behind it is that it is supposed to be a shake that provides everything the body needs in as close to the perfect amounts as possible. Any way that can be accomplished is fair game. In THEORY, a person should be able to consume only soylent and nothing else if they desire and achieve/maintain good health. The name is based off a movie that came out in 1973 called "Soylent Green" in a futuristic earth (year 2022) where the Earth's resources have been depleted and the planet is overpopulated. All natural foods are extinct and everybody relies on a company known as the Soylent Industries to manufacture their food. Nobody has any idea that the secret ingredient in their foods is humans (YUM! ).

I personally wouldn't consume the official soylent because it has a lot of cheap and questionable artificial ingredients such as sucralose, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, maltodextrin, gum acacia, canola oil, etc. Magnesium oxide and calcium carbonate are trash - they're both very poorly absorbed and neutralize the stomach acid (which is essential for proper digestion) thus decreasing the absorption of the calcium/magnesium and other minerals as well as some vitamins. There's a lot of potential problems with many of the other ingredients in it as well, but many pages can be written about them and I won't get too deep into that here.

However, I do intend to follow this soylent experiment and see where it winds up. Should be interesting...

[Projectile Vomit]

So you're telling me there's an entire Internet community that's arisen around creating a shake recipe named after one from a movie that included blended human meat? Wow! That's... inspiring?!

Not something I'm keen on being part of...

[NinjaNight]

My mistake - the founder actually named it after the book and in the book soylent was NOT made of people apparently. Everybody thinks of the movie when they think of soylent though.

I think it's funny that so many are put off by that name.

[PaleoPhil]

In the movie, Soylent Green contained human flesh, and it was the tastiest and most nutritious. Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow didn't contain human flesh and tasted awful. There was a constant shortage of Soylent Green because of its popularity.

In the book that inspired the movie (Harry Harrison's Sci Fi novel Make Room! Make Room!) , the name Soylent came from soy + lentils, which were the primary ingredients of "Soylent Steaks".

According to the Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(food_substitute), the maker of this newfangled Soylent crap developed joint pain from eating it and had to add MSM to it to avoid that problem. Doesn't sound good.