Taking sustainable to the extreme: Soylent meal replacement in a bottle

latimes.com ^ | Jenn Harris

[BenLurkin]

Imagine drinking a beige, liquid goo every time you get hungry. Instead of steak, sushi or your favorite lunchtime salad, it's a bottle of goo, three times a day. .

That's the idea behind Soylent 2.0, a bottled meal replacement made in Los Angeles,

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Version 2.0 includes the vitamins and minerals, algal oil, isomaltulose (a slow-metabolizing ingredient naturally found in honey) and soy protein. It's pre-bottled, has a one-year shelf life and doesn't need to be refrigerated.

The Soylent website claims each bottle contains 20% of a person's daily recommended value for essential vitamins and minerals, and 400 calories. It also describes the drink as having "a smooth texture with a subtle, delicious flavor."

[Verbosus]

rigelkentaurus wrote:
“I thought it was supposed to be green?”

It depended on what day it was.
The really ‘good stuff’ was Soylent Green.
That was available on Tuesdays.

(I should not know that.)

[ferret_airlift]

I like that idea. I would add to it: It should be prison food as well. That would be ample reason to not go/go back.

[Talisker]

Non-fermented soy will make you sick.

In Asia its only used for animal feed for that reason.

Crap should be illegal.

[huldah1776]

soy is dangerous to any society. Take the far east where soy is a major food. Any reason why aphrodisiacs are also in such high demand?

“The unassuming soybean has silently infiltrated the American diet as what might just be the perfect protein source: It’s cheap and vegetarian, and could even unclog our hearts. But there may be a hidden dark side to soy, one that has the power to undermine everything it means to be male”

http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects

[jmcenanly]

It sounds like something the Borg would cook up.If you tried using that for a soldier’s field rations, you’d have a mutiny.