[regis]

People eat things like Pop-Tarts, Skittles, Grape Soda and other "food products" like that without researching the team behind them. Does it really matter what the team members' positions are?

I would trust a company like Soylent over General Mills until I have reason to believe otherwise.

edit: By the way General Mills also has a CTO: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-simonett/5a/829/8a

[rosser]

Because Pop-Tarts and Skittles aren't being sold as a food replacement. I don't know about you, but I'm going to hold someone making a "snack" to a much lower standard than someone selling a product marketed with, "Here, you can use this instead of eating."

[regis]

Yeah, that's sort of true... but I think people do see these snacks as real food. Pop-tarts are marketed as a breakfast food - this makes it seem as though you could eat pop-tarts in the morning before you start your day instead of a fruit salad or something more "time-tested"

[mtct]

It is not expected that you live only with Pop-Tarts, Skittles or Grape Soda.

[elnate]

You might not expect that, but people people still try. I can only speak of my New Zealand education but I didn't learn what a macronutrient was until I was 21 and researched it myself.

[mtct]

Didn't your mother taught you that you have to eat your vegetables?