[georgebashi]

Could you link some of these products available for purchase for purchase please? I've heard a few times times that there are soylent equivalents currently available, but from my searching I've only ever been able to find meal supplements and not complete replacements.

[blhack]

There is a section at lots of health food stores for "meal replacement".

I bought some a few weeks ago while out sourcing ingredients for some DIY soylent.

It was disgusting.

[randallsquared]

http://abbottstore.com/sub-brand/Ensure-Complete-31.aspx

Ensure Complete has an interesting nutrition panel: it's 25% of everything listed, if I remember correctly. A four pack is 1400 calories and everything you need for a day. In my local stores, it's about $8. Jevity isn't marketed in grocers like Ensure Complete is.

[asdasf]

>it's 25% of everything listed, if I remember correctly

You don't. If you tried to live on ensure complete (which they seem to only sell in the US?) you need to add potassium, choline, more fat, more calories in general, more fiber, more sodium and chloride, but unfortunately not in the ratio they are found in salt (that was bright) and you now have diarrhea all the time from the magnesium. All that and it is more expensive than soylent. This crap is precisely why people are stoked about soylent, we've tried the existing products and they suck.

[randallsquared]

Ah, quite right, I see that's on their site:

http://abbottstore.com/adult-nutrition/ensure-complete-milk-...

But, this crap is not why people are stoked about soylent, since the vast majority of people who are excited about soylent don't seem to be aware that there are a bunch of products that are pretty close (or possibly better in some cases) already.

[asdasf]

But there aren't a bunch of products that are pretty close or better, that's the point. The only 100% complete nutrition products are medical products for tube feeding, and they are expensive.

[magila]

http://abbottstore.com/jevity

http://www.nestlenutritionstore.com/departments/therapeutic-...

[gscott]

This is one

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-Life-Meal-powder/dp/B0001...

[asdasf]

No, that is not one. That is the whole point. Look at the label, you would need to eat 29 scoops of that per day to get your daily potassium. It doesn't even mention all the vitamins and minerals we know we need. That is not a balanced, complete source of nutrition. Every time soylent is mentioned people make this claim, that all sorts of not even close to complete products are already filling the role soylent is intended for. They don't.

[gscott]

Hmm, I looked pretty hard several times on Amazon for a soylent type product and that was the best one I found. It could be that type of thing doesn't sell well, but we will find out once soylent hits mass production. I like the idea because I am addicted to food if somehow I can just cut food out of the equation, avoid it entirely maybe I could tame my addiction.