Soylent is here. It's not people.

[superpatriotman]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/09/soylent-beverage_n_5296329.html

What if you never had to worry about food preparation again?

A new beverage called Soylent was created to provide a simpler food option for those with little time to dedicate to grocery shopping and food prep. The product comes with a dry powder and an oil blend to mix together and promises to provide consumers with all the nutritional value they need.

Julia Beck, associate editor at The Atlantic, explained to HuffPost Live's Marc Lamont Hill that she tried a drink similar to Soylent and while she was kept fairly nourished, the experience itself wasn't the most enjoyable.

Link to Company website:

http://soylent.me/#/

Soylent™ was developed from a need for a simpler food source. Creator Robert Rhinehart and team developed Soylent after recognizing the disproportionate amount of time and money they spent creating nutritionally complete meals.

Soylent is a food product (classified as a food, not a supplement, by the FDA) designed for use as a staple meal by all adults. Each serving of Soylent provides maximum nutrition with minimum effort.

As the primary source of energy for the body, carbohydrates are the largest component of Soylent by mass. The two main sources of carbs in Soylent are the starch in oat flour and the oligosaccharide Maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is a medium-long chain of glucose units composed of both 1->4 and 1->6 glycosidic bonds. Starches are long polysaccharide repeats consisting of amylose and amylopectin linked together by glycosidic bonds and are broken down slowly by the body, thus preventing a spike in blood sugar.

Recipes DIY:

http://diy.soylent.me/recipes

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Hah! Not people?

That's what they want you to think.

[Historic NY]

2. " developed from a need for a simpler food source"

[mucifer]

3. Why on earth would they call it that??

[Jackpine Radical]

7. All the subtlety of Operation Iraqi Liberation,

back when the Bushies were having an inside joke, figuring the public was too stupid to notice the acronym.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

9. It's geek humour.

The name wouldn't bother me, but I'd probably only ever buy any to use as emergency supplies. I enjoy the variety of textures, colours, and tastes of food too much to simply switch to nutrient shakes unless I absolutely had to.

[superpatriotman]

10. according to the website

it's from the book "Make Room! Make Room!"

[MohRokTah]

11. That novel was the basis for the 1973 film, Soylent Green.

Soylent Green is people.

[pinboy3niner]

12. Some think it's a lovely name

[LadyHawkAZ]

4. It's a great idea, but a poor choice of name

Funny, tho.

[pinboy3niner]

5. If they wanted people to like it they probably should have left out the broccoli

[Auggie]

6. I can't believe they'd name it that

yechh!

[MohRokTah]

8. Stupidest. Branding. EVER!

I predict they swiftly go belly up.

[hunter]

13. Better than the monkey chow diet?

In researching what primate feed would be best, I came across The Monkey Chow Diaries. I know that many people (if there are actually people that visit my site) might think that I stole the idea from him, but I did not. I, like many geeks out there, thought of it completely on my own. Well, maybe not entirely on my own. I do remember someone writing into Ask Marilyn many years ago asking if a person could live on dog food. Marilyn said they would do better to eat Monkey Chow, since that would provide vitamin C, something that a dog's body can manufacture on its own. That was the genesis of the idea. From there I watched and read science fiction, which fairly often had a "superfood" that met all the bodies dietary needs. One example would be the "goop" that the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar ate.

http://www.nathanedwardwilliams.com/fun/monkeydiet.htm

My own simple diet is a lot nicer. Brown rice, beans or lentils, olive oil, random fruits, nuts, vegetables, spices, good beer, and potato chips. (The last two are optional and may even be detrimental to my health, but they are my "comfort foods.&quot

[johnp3907]

14. Could've at least made it green.

[rrneck]

15. Science fiction has such a hard time staying ahead.

[NV Whino]

16. But what will we do with all the unused bar-b-ques?