Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label

Re:Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label by robobro on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:21AM (#7602102)

As a type 1 diabetic, this could be handy for eating out / backpacking / regulating glucose. Wish I could have gotten in on the alpha...

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Re:Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label by ryanmerket on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:38AM (#7602135)

It's high glycemic, so probably not the best for diabetics.

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Re:Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label by yaddayadda on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:43AM (#7602149)

I don't see a glycemic value on the label, so how do you know it's high? (I'm not a diabetic, I'm just genuinely curious.)

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Re:Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label by ballard on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:06AM (#7602192)

Page with ingredients, don't know how to interpret:

http://blog.soylent.me/search/Ingredients

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Re:Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label by Sammi on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:19AM (#7602804)

Main ingredients are:

  Oat Flour (110g)
  Maltodextrin (165g) 
  Brown Rice Protein Isolate (102g)
  Canola Oil (56g)
  Fiber (38g)

I'm worried about how much of that is Maltodextrin, as it's really just a chain of glucose molecules, and so would give an extremely high glycemic load. It's somewhat mitigated by the fiber, as fiber hampers sugar uptake in the digestive system, but it's still a lot. I'd like to see some proper data on the what the GI score of Soylent is derived from actually testing it properly.

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