Soylent
Soylent is a liquid food, similar to tube feeding or astronaut food . It is advertised as a staple food that, according to the manufacturer, completely covers the nutritional needs of an average adult.
history
Soylent goes back to the software developer Rob Rhinehart, who developed the product as a self-experiment. In February 2013, he published details of a month-long self- experiment How I Stopped Eating Food ("How I stopped eating food"). He also published the list of ingredients and nutrition tables. He made the recipe available under an open source license so that feedback from the community could be incorporated into the recipe.
Rhinehart founded the company Rosa Labs, which raised a capital of 3 million US dollars via the crowdfunding platform "Tilt" in order to manufacture Soylent commercially. This is the most successful crowdfunding project for a foodstuff. After the campaign, another 1.5 million were US dollars by venture capitalists lukriert to develop the product.
In April 2014, Rosa Labs began shipping $ 2.6 million worth of Soylent equipment with $ 500 worth of equipment.
Surname
The name goes back to a fictional food from the 1966 novel New York 1999 by Harry Harrison , which was made into a film in 1973 with the much better known movie classic ... year 2022 ... who want to survive . This is the combination of "Soy" (Engl. " Soja (Engl." ") With" Lentil " lens "), a series of mass industrial products for the diet of heavily overpopulated Earth, which allegedly obtained from various plant sources but were actually made from human flesh.
criticism
The long-term health effects of Soylent have not yet been adequately researched. Vitamin supplements in particular could have a negative impact on health. Some manufacturers therefore offer whole food alternatives, which, however, have also not been researched. Critics admit that short-term ingestion of Soylent or similar foods may be more beneficial than the traditional diet of many Americans. Many sources claim the opposite.
At Soylent, the social aspect of meals together is omitted due to the short preparation and consumption times. The variety of flavors is also lost if you only consume Soylent. Most consumers therefore use it as a convenience food and not as the sole food.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Susan Scutti: Eat All A Healthy Body Needs For $ 9 / Day . Medical Daily. February 18, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Rob Rhinehart: How I Stopped Eating Food. February 13, 2013, accessed October 24, 2015 .
- ↑ As of 2015
- ↑ Alando Ballantyne: How We Spent $ 500 on Tech to Ship $ 2.6M of Soylent. June 3, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Gregory Ferenstein: Soylent-style powdered food shows bad long-term Consequences in mice. Venture Beat , March 27, 2014, accessed October 24, 2015 .
- ^ Soylent Review: Why It Can't Replace Regular Food . Alpha Efficiency. January 16, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ↑ Eat Real Food - Not Soylent 2.0 . Fix your gut. August 7, 2015. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ↑ Chris Ziegler: Soylent survivor: one month living on lab-made liquid nourishment . The Verge. July 17, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ↑ Health: New studies show the great dizziness with the expensive vitamin pills . profil.at. January 28, 2006. Retrieved April 28, 2016.