2018-08-11 21:32:11 +00:00
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# Soylent - cyberfood for digital dystopia
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Soylent aims to provide all human nutrition in one powder.
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To function, humans need carbon hydrates, fats, proteins, and certain vitamins.
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2019-08-21 22:58:53 +00:00
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There is a company by some techbro who first made it popular. Because it's not
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shipped in Europe, I found a recipe online and mixed it myself.
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there are many recipes, mine was optimized for:
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* cheap (1,33€ a day for me)
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* vegan
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* widely available ingredients (I only had to go to one online shop and 2 stores)
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* few ingredients (only 7 or 8 different ingredients)
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You can create your own recipes on https://www.completefoods.co/
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My favourite recipe has 8 ingredients, but does not really fulfill all nutrition:
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* 150g oat flakes
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* 150g sugar
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* 110g soy flakes
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* 4g iodine salt
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* 1.5 pills with diverse vitamines
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* 30ml sunflower oil
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* 50g pea protein
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* 70g wheat flour
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* has not enough Calcium, Vitamin A & D, and Choline.
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You just add the powder into a cup, add the oil, add water, and drink it/eat it
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with a spoon.
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## advantages
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tenable - does not go bad, you can store it for months, maybe years
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you don't have to cook (when you don't want to)
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* preparing does not take much time (around 20 minutes for 2 days)
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Low water usage
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you don't have to clean many dishes
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no organic waste, (almost) nothing is thrown away
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you can buy and store always the same stuff
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you don't need a fridge, a stove, nor an oven
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eating real food is more special and tastes better
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gaining or losing weight is easier, you just eat more or less
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## experiences
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after 8 months, I did not have enough iron, that was basically the only bad
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consequence
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people would give me food all the time, because they were worried
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I think I never went more than 2-3 days without eating anything else
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## criticism
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it does not taste very well
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* but also not very bad. mine actually tastes a bit sweet, with a consistency
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like cereals.
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bodies are complex and intransparent - not just input-output-machines
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* we don't know how specific bodies process food - e.g. iron processing
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* we don't know how bodies change when they eat specific food all the time
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focus on function over anything else, alienation from own body
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* alienation is not necessarily bad
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* but you are not a machine, you have to decide yourself if you want to become
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similar to one
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There is a lot of weird criticism, because food is sacred. I broke already
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many social norms, but few are met with as much weird looks as food hacking.
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So you will meet people who will feel unsettled, but don't know how. Even I
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felt really weird, when I prepared myself to eat the first portion: but soon it
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turned into being satisfied :D
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