The perfect food?

Misfit

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The drink that means you'll never need to eat another meal again: 24-year-old fed up with cooking and shopping creates dinner in a glass | Mail Online

A man who tired of wasting time and energy cooking and eating claims to have come up with a novel solution - a cocktail that contains all the nutrients he needs to survive.

Mr Rhinehart says his inspiration for the cocktail came from seeing an elderly family friend fall ill.

'I started wondering why something as simple and important as food was still so inefficient, given how streamlined and optimised other modern things are.

'I also had an incentive to live as cheaply as possible, and I yearned for the productivity benefit of being healthy. I'd been reading a lot of books on biology and I started to think that it's probably all the same to our cells whether it gets nutrients from a powder or a carrot.'

He maintains that Soylent contains everything the body needs in terms of vitamins, minerals and nutrients such as essential amino acids, carbohydrates and fat.

Going forward, he hopes his findings could help with world hunger.
 

DEEKAYPEE8569

Well-Known Member
The drink that means you'll never need to eat another meal again: 24-year-old fed up with cooking and shopping creates dinner in a glass | Mail Online

A man who tired of wasting time and energy cooking and eating claims to have come up with a novel solution - a cocktail that contains all the nutrients he needs to survive.

Mr Rhinehart says his inspiration for the cocktail came from seeing an elderly family friend fall ill.

'I started wondering why something as simple and important as food was still so inefficient, given how streamlined and optimised other modern things are.

'I also had an incentive to live as cheaply as possible, and I yearned for the productivity benefit of being healthy. I'd been reading a lot of books on biology and I started to think that it's probably all the same to our cells whether it gets nutrients from a powder or a carrot.'

He maintains that Soylent contains everything the body needs in terms of vitamins, minerals and nutrients such as essential amino acids, carbohydrates and fat.

Going forward, he hopes his findings could help with world hunger.

Just make a Bloody Mary with V8.....in a Big Gulp cup. Heh?
 

somdfunguy

not impressed
Ars does Soylent, Day 2: My God, what have I gotten myself into | Ars Technica


It was bad. These weren't mere ha-ha toot kinds of emissions; this was hair-raising. It was room-clearing, horse-killing, World War I mustard gas-type gas. I migrated from room to room in the house like I was giving up territory to the Kaiser, my face fixed in an expression of horror as green hell-fumes trailed behind me, peeling paint and wilting plants. My wife, bless her heart, said nothing. At some point, I made my way back to the computer and pulled up the e-mail correspondence between Soylent founder Rob Rhinehart and me.
 
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