Re:Soylent 1.4 begins shipping today
by dmamills on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @04:39PM
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I still don't understand this company, to me it just seems like a marketing/branding ploy sitting on top of Ensure.
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Re:Soylent 1.4 begins shipping today
by adamwong246 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @04:45PM
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If you check the nutritional information for Soylent and compare it to Ensure, you'll see that Soylent is not at all like Ensure.
I whole heartedly disagree. It really doesn't look that different from Ensure Complete. (Ensure's product that targets the exact same market) They contain almost the exact same vitamins and minerals. Considering the differences in recommended portion sizes I'd say they are pretty much identical.
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/14/assets/files...
Re:Soylent 1.4 begins shipping today
by thatswrong0 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:49PM
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Did you even bother to read the ingredients?
Top ingredients of Soylent:
High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Rice Protein, Oat Flour, Isomaltulose
Top ingredients of ensure:
Water, Corn Maltodextrin, >>>>Sugar<<<<
Ensure + a multivitamin. Yeah.
Re:Soylent 1.4 begins shipping today
by fizzbatter on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @05:16PM
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Okay, i have a heavy urge to call your nonsense FUD - but to give you of the benefit of the doubt, why do you think it is that?
Have you compared the two nutritionally speaking? If so, what led you to believe they were so similar?
To me the differences are striking - unbelievably so. So much, that you come off as a troll. Please inform me otherwise.
Re:Soylent 1.4 begins shipping today
by adamwong246 on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @04:54PM
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That is absolutely incorrect. Soylent is designed to be a meal replacement in the realest sense. Rosa Labs is constantly tweaking the formula for optimum results. To compare it to a weightloss shake and overdoses of vitamins is rather reductive of the work done by Rosa Labs. If you think you can do better, go ahead and try. I tried to make my own with disastrous results.