{"id":4100,"date":"2014-06-20T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2014-06-20T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:06:18","slug":"culinary-soylent-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/culinary-soylent-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary: Soylent….an introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have heard of this stuff. It\u2019s called Soylent and while there\u2019s only a trace amount of soy in the powder, the tech world is sort of blowing up in what\u2019s a 50\/50 split of fans and foes to this new liquid diet.<\/span><\/p>\n

I just ordered 28 days worth of food for $300.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Soylent? via SoylentMaker.com:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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So, what is Soylent? In short, Soylent is intended to become a drink or shake that contains all the nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrates and other macro and micronutrients) that the human body needs to sustain itself in a healthy manner. Most of the time, our normal diets just aren\u2019t getting us the right amount of nutrients and that can have a tremendous impact on our daily lives (mentally and physically).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For example, a lack in potassium or choline (both important nutrients in neurological functions) might be impacting your social life greatly either in your workplace or at school. So why not ensure that your body receives the proper nutrients to function to it\u2019s fullest?\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0It is the perfect food. Most of us see Soylent and think about The Matrix, “…a single celled protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals. Everything the body needs.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year since 2009 I\u2019ve done a 10-20 day liquid vegetable cleanse. It\u2019s nice\u2026really nice! I feel so good when it\u2019s all over and most importantly, my taste-buds have reset where sugars and salts are so much stronger and my stomach capacity shrinks allowing me to be full with smaller meals. That reset doesn\u2019t last too long and this January, I didn\u2019t do my yearly reset. I can\u2019t really say why, I just never got around to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to give Soylent a one-month chance. Well, a 2 week chance and then I\u2019ll be ordering more of it and hopefully continuing it for as long as is possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a lot of 2-4 week trials of the product where the drinkers claim that all of their vitals are normal and unchanged except everyone experiences a drop in cholesterol, resting heart rate and small drops in weight. Not huge drops but more like a cleaner system where less water weight and \u2018poo weight\u2019 is overall about a 10 pound drop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soylent is open-sourced so the recipe list online is something anyone can recreate and improve upon. Soylent runs a recipe discussion site where users post recipes and get up voted and comments. There are ways to make Soylent into a butter like paste for easier and more interesting consumption and there are remixes, improvements and sharing of ideas. Soylent 1.0 is the current release version after being in \u2018beta\u2019 for over a year. Improvements are coming monthly to the base \u2019source code\u2019 of what goes in. The great thing is, you don\u2019t have to order from Soylent but I chose to because I\u2019d only be saving 30% to buy ingredients and make it myself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s in Soylent 1.0? via Wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n

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