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I still don't understand this company, to me it just seems like a marketing/branding ploy sitting on top of Ensure.


If you check the nutritional information for Soylent and compare it to Ensure, you'll see that Soylent is not at all like Ensure.


I whole heartedly disagree. It really doesn't look that different from Ensure Complete. (Ensure's product that targets the exact same market) They contain almost the exact same vitamins and minerals. Considering the differences in recommended portion sizes I'd say they are pretty much identical.

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/14/assets/files...

http://ensure.com/products/ensure-complete-shakes


Did you even bother to read the ingredients?

Top ingredients of Soylent:

High Oleic Sunflower Oil, Rice Protein, Oat Flour, Isomaltulose

Top ingredients of ensure:

Water, Corn Maltodextrin, >>>>Sugar<<<<


Ensure + a multivitamin. Yeah.


Okay, i have a heavy urge to call your nonsense FUD - but to give you of the benefit of the doubt, why do you think it is that?

Have you compared the two nutritionally speaking? If so, what led you to believe they were so similar?

To me the differences are striking - unbelievably so. So much, that you come off as a troll. Please inform me otherwise.


That is absolutely incorrect. Soylent is designed to be a meal replacement in the realest sense. Rosa Labs is constantly tweaking the formula for optimum results. To compare it to a weightloss shake and overdoses of vitamins is rather reductive of the work done by Rosa Labs. If you think you can do better, go ahead and try. I tried to make my own with disastrous results.




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