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veen  ·  3483 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Year with Soylent

As I say in this post, the difference is that Soylent isn't created by manipulating existing food but 'from scratch'. While it's not the first food to be created in a lab, it is definitely the most ambitious.

    To say Soylent is somehow unhealthy implies you have a better diet.

No, that doesn't make logical sense. I know McDonald's is unhealthy, but I might be eating worse than that for all you know. Besides, I don't say that. Unhealthy is not exactly what I was going for - I was thinking more about long-term dangers of mixing a really diverse set of nutrients and vitamins.

Let me phrase it another way - that which makes Soylent unique and healthy (its all-encompassing set of ingredients) is also the thing I am cautious about with my limited knowledge of chemistry and food safety.