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Re:Soylent 1.4: a quick review by maxerickson on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:00PM (#9265159)
Soylent is going to have no problem providing all of those ingredients.

You gotta reach for delicate and complex organic molecules that are not well characterized, not stuff so well understood that it is listed in internet nutrition databases.

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Re:Soylent 1.4: a quick review by rjurney on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:02PM (#9265178)
1) Soylent doesn't include the vast library of known life extending phytonutrients. 2) we haven't discovered most of these compounds, we just know plants have them
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Re:Soylent 1.4: a quick review by maxerickson on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @03:06PM (#9265202)
Yeah, that's what I meant, your Kale-sporge doesn't mention those, it mentions things that are very well characterized.

I always wonder how many of those phytonutrients can stand up to hydrochloric acid and also get absorbed into the bloodstream.

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Re:Soylent 1.4: a quick review by rjurney on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @09:09PM (#9267190)
I think most things stand up pretty well to the stomach. Often though, it is the metabolites of any given substance which do the good, so its after they're processed somewhat.
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