Dive Summary:
- Controversial food replacement Soylent exceeded its $100,000 crowdfunding campaign goal, bringing in $797,223 from 6,471 people.
- Soylent's powder contains basic nutritional building blocks like maltodextrain and oat powder for carbs, whey isolate for protein, ferrous gluconate for iron, grape seed oil for fat, creatine and other ingredients, and founder Rob Rhinehart claims he has lived exclusively on the product for five months now and has never felt better in his life.
- Whether or not Soylent becomes "the future of nutrition" and replaces food remains to be seen, but Rhinehart, who has no formal food science background, says the product is ideally meant to replace processed food eaten when people are too busy to make a fresh meal.
From the article:
... Rhinehart said that the food industry has applied technology in ways that aren’t beneficial to our bodies, but this doesn’t have to be the case.
“Food does not have to be natural to be healthy,” he said. “Processing is a useful innovation that has been misused. You can use it to make food look more appetizing or addictive, or you can use it to make something that is quite healthy. People are understandably conservative about their food. Natural organic food has its place, but at the end of the day, all foods and flavors are made out of chemicals, and we can engineer those to make better food than nature has.” ...
