Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae

Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by baby on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:43PM (#12893636)

I love what Soylent is doing, I have wished for such a meal replacer all my life.

I've drank something like 40 bottles of Soylent (which are, so far presumably safe) and they have helped me replace a lot of fast food. Never had problems with them until I started getting nauseous and now I can't drink it anymore.

With all these news about people getting sick, I feel a bit silly having beta tested stuff with my own body. And they definitely have lost at least one customer here.

But I'm still happy to see them experimenting with such a product. I still want this to happen, I will just not beta test it myself.

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by DanBC on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:56PM (#12893774)

> I have wished for such a meal replacer all my life.

why aren't any of the very many other products that have existed for years been good enough?

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by macspoofing on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:15PM (#12897310)

The magic ingredient is SV tech culture. You need the placebo effect of a food product with release notes (https://www.soylent.com/notes/).

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by resfirestar on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:08PM (#12893889)

What products would those be? Most meal replacement shakes marketed in the US are for people trying to lose weight, so they have far less calories and fat than a meal for people just trying to eat healthy.

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by catenthusiast on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:12PM (#12893938)

Have you heard of Ensure?

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by resfirestar on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:33PM (#12894175)

Yeah, I even wrote a paragraph bashing it (or at least, people claiming that it's a product of serious medical research) last time we had a Soylent thread. It has a lot more sugar and carbs than most people would want to eat regularly, which makes it more suitable as a temporary food replacement or a snack than a lunch staple.

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by scdlbx on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:05PM (#12894505)

Try something like Glucerna. It's like Ensure but for diabetics, so it has a lot less sugar and carbs.

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by nommm-nommm on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:00PM (#12894460)

Jevity?

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by resfirestar on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:20PM (#12894652)

Yeah, stuff like Jevity is probably worth a look, but you'll have to excuse people for never considering it seeing as Abbott never thought of marketing it to overworked nerds.

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Re:Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae by baby on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:49PM (#12896962)

Never heard of them.

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