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If you've been following nutrition (or Silicon Valley) news, you've probably heard of Soylent, the milky meal replacement boasting all the nutrients you need—in portable, swiggable form. Soylent CEO and founder Rob Rhinehart, who I interviewed a year…

The latest revolution in food just might be here, and it comes in powder form. At least that is what Rob Rhinehart, the 25-year-old engineer and inventor of the food-replacement product dubbed Soylent, wants us to believe. Rhinehart, a California engineer,…

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The future of food is here, and if you're concerned with what it tastes like, then you might want to wait for a better-tasting future. Robert Rhinehart, a 25-year-old software engineer, created Soylent, a food-replacement beverage, to replace food and…

As with many creative expressions throughout history, life imitating art is often incredibly prescient (image by Wikipedia.org). We still have seven months to go and 2014 is already shaping up as one of the most momentous in the new century, if not in…

As with many creative expressions throughout history, life imitating art is often incredibly prescient (image by Wikipedia.org). We still have seven months to go and 2014 is already shaping up as one of the most momentous in the new century, if not in…

The new revolution in food just might be in powder form. Or at least that's what Rob Rhinehart, the 25-year-old engineer and creator of the headline-grabbing food-replacement product Soylent, would like us to believe. Rhinehart, a California engineer,…

The new revolution in food just might be in powder form. Or at least that's what Rob Rhinehart, the 25-year-old engineer and creator of the headline-grabbing food-replacement product Soylent, would like us to believe. Rhinehart, a California engineer,…

The new revolution in food just might be in powder form. Or at least that's what Rob Rhinehart, the 25-year-old engineer and creator of the headline-grabbing food-replacement product Soylent, would like us to believe. Rhinehart, a California engineer,…

“The powder you now behold is more than meets the eye,” reads the marketing material that accompanied what was to be my food for the week. “This mix of mass, energy and information is the staple food of the future. Refined, robust and efficient, Soylent…

The future of food is here, and if you're concerned with what it tastes like, then you might want to wait for a better-tasting future. Robert Rhinehart, a 25-year-old software engineer, created Soylent, a food-replacement beverage, to replace food and…

In my reading over the last couple of weeks, I keep coming across articles written about Soylent, a new food product that has been designed by tech entrepreneur Robert Rhinehart. Soylent, so named (as a joke) for the gruesome science fiction food substitute…

It's the tourists' Soylent: a thoroughly bland stew of chicken and green beans that looks postcard-perfect when it's set on the table bubbling and golden from the overdose of turmeric, but perplexingly simple on tongue—under-salted, under-spiced, and…

IEET Affilaite Scholar takes a look at the new craze of food enthusiasts: Soylent. 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…

NEW YORK, June 1 — Soylent is a product developed by a group of entrepreneurs to be a cheaper, more efficient alternative to food. The New York Times poses the all-important question to some selected taste testers: could it someday replace “real” food?

The news: Just like those Vibram FiveFingers shoes, Soylent is the type of ludicrous-sounding, yet "disruptive" product that's enjoying surprisingly considerable success in Silicon Valley. In case you missed the buzz, Soylent is that chalky, somewhat…

The news: Just like those Vibram FiveFingers shoes, Soylent is the type of ludicrous-sounding, yet "disruptive" product that's enjoying surprisingly considerable success in Silicon Valley. In case you missed the buzz, Soylent is that chalky, somewhat…

They represented, respectively, plant protein–based eggs, Soylent (a powder containing one meal's nutrients), “steak chips,” and “Beyond Meat,” (“the first plant protein that looks, feels, tastes, and acts like meat”). The conversation among the quartet…

The news: Just like those Vibram FiveFingers shoes, Soylent is the type of ludicrous-sounding, yet "disruptive" product that's enjoying surprisingly considerable success in Silicon Valley. In case you missed the buzz, Soylent is that chalky, somewhat…

Soylent was developed by software engineer Rob Rhinehart. In February 2013 he wrote a blogpost explaining how he had researched "every substance the body needs to survive, plus a few extras shown to be beneficial, and purchased all of them in nearly ...

Soylent, the unfortunately named food substitute — named after the fictional Soylent Green, which was made out of human flesh — is now available for online sale, and it is just as depressing and redundant a food phenomenon as it sounds. The tech / hacker…

It's a tempting proposition: drink Soylent, a food-replacement product that gives you all the calories and nutrients you need to go about your too-busy-to-cook day. It can save time and reduce your agricultural footprint. But is replacing real food with…

(Newser) – The makers of Soylent say their product takes the stress out of trying to eat well by simplifying the process: Just drink the stuff, get all the nutrients you need, and skip actual food entirely. Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times gave it…

I just spent more than a week experiencing Soylent, the most joyless new technology to hit the world since we first laid eyes on MS-DOS. Soylent is a drink mix invented by a group of engineers who harbor ambitions of shaking up the global food business.

I've spilled a lot of virtual ink on Soylent over the past year—I count thirteen pieces, including the five-day experiment from last summer when I ate nothing but the stuff for a full week. This, though, is probably the last Soylent-specific piece that…

You can live on Soylent alone, Mr. Rhinehart claims, though in practice he said customers would most likely use it to replace just their “staple meals,” by which he meant most of the junk you eat every day to fill yourself up. Mr. Rhinehart argued that…

Soylent, a California-based product, claims to be able to accomplish just that: nourish your body with everything it needs, with no food substitution necessary. The food substitute was created by software engineer Robert Rhinehart, and its first shipment…

The startup, Soylent, has raised more than $1 million, targeting its product at people who think they're too busy to get nutrition from real food. Unfortunately, the state of food science is still pretty primitive; we really don't know how the body absorbs…

All the more reason to dread the future of food as envisioned by Rob Rhinehart, a 25-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur and inventor of Soylent. A food substitute, Soylent shipped its first 30,000 units of commercially made product to customers two…

As Charlton Heston's character finds out in Richard Fleischer's 1973 science fiction dystopia classic, “Soylent Green is people!” Set in a horrific future version of New York City circa 2022, humanity has been ravaged by overpopulation, poverty, and a…

Soylent — the name is taken from the 1966 sci-fi novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison — is delivered in white boxes containing pouches of powder, and vials of oil. You mix one pouch and one vial with water to yield 2000 calories in liquid form,…

With Soylent to eat (or I guess drink) and Palcohol to drink (or maybe eat), it seems the kitchen of the future will just be a blender. But don't haul your stove to the curb just yet: an admittedly small study says that mice who ate nothing but powdered…

With Soylent to eat (or I guess drink) and Palcohol to drink (or maybe eat), it seems the kitchen of the future will just be a blender. But don't haul your stove to the curb just yet: an admittedly small study says that mice who ate nothing but powdered…

With Soylent to eat (or I guess drink) and Palcohol to drink (or maybe eat), it seems the kitchen of the future will just be a blender. But don't haul your stove to the curb just yet: an admittedly small study says that mice who ate nothing but powdered…

Soylent — the name is taken from a sci-fi novel — is delivered in white boxes containing pouches of powder, and vials of oil. You mix one pouch and one vial with water to yield 2000 calories in liquid form, enough for one day. Lipids come from canola…

One exception, of course, are those who might be tempted to try living on Soylent. [Here's another exception. -Ed.] Around this time last year, word spread of a liquid meal software engineer Rob Rhinehart had come up with. It's made mostly of powders,…

Soylent Green is people. Its people!!. If we don't eat corpes there is no Soylent Green. Without Soylent Green you lose a key ingredient in some really good souffles. How about Soylent Green stew? Its really good and a staple on the food network. No corpses…

Compared to Soylent, which is chemical powders, flour, and oil, and Soylent Green, which is people, Ambronite seems downright normal. It's not, of course: Like Soylent Green and Soylent, Ambronite is a "drinkable meal" intended to replace a regular, ...

Standing at the streetcar stop a few weeks ago, tired and hungry after a long day at work, my arms loaded down with groceries, I longed for Soylent. I had interviewed Rob Rhinehart, whose company sells Soylent, a beige liquid that he claims has every…

Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.

If you haven't heard of Soylent, be afraid — very afraid. This nutritionally complete compound has been called “the end of food,” and after a successful Kickstarter campaign, it's now being mass-produced and sold online. Disturbed by the thought, we asked…

Of course, Marx had never met Rob Rhinehart, the entrepreneur recently featured in a Lizzie Widdicombe New Yorker piece for his efforts to replace food with a grey slurry he calls 'Soylent'. Rhinehart's Eureka moment came while he struggled to launch…

Last August, I spent five days eating nothing but Soylent, the provocatively named liquid food product created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rob Rhinehart. Five days wasn't anywhere near enough to gain more than the briefest glimpses into how the stuff…

Have you heard about Soylent? It's a liquid food substitute developed by a Silicon Valley guy whose motto is "free your body." The basic idea is that you dissolve the stuff in water, shake it up, slurp it down and dinner is done. You've gotten all the…

The 25-year-old San Francisco-based entrepreneur claims to have spent the past year living almost entirely off a drinkable "food substitute" of his own invention called Soylent, a sort of Ambrosia for millennials, if you will. The 25-year-old engineering…

It turns out that we are Soylent Green. The 1973 film of the same name, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, is set in 2022 in an overpopulated, polluted, starving New York City whose inhabitants depend on synthetic foods manufactured by the…

It turns out that we are Soylent Green. The 1973 film of the same name, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, is set in 2022 in an overpopulated, polluted, starving New York City whose inhabitants depend on synthetic foods manufactured by the…

It turns out that we are Soylent Green. The 1973 film of the same name, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, is set in 2022 in an overpopulated, polluted, starving New York City whose inhabitants depend on synthetic foods manufactured by the…

Even the movement toward whole foods, clean labels and a return to the foods of yore has the counterbalance of protein bars, energy drinks and a new food-type substance called Soylent. Yes, like Soylent Green, the 1973 movie that I have always loved in…

A liquid formula that goes down easy and provides you enough nutrients for the day. Would you ever start eating soylent? Heeding my own advice not to eat in front of the computer, I set a place at the table and fetched a plate of fresh Parmesan-scrambled…

Which brings me to the distressing hype that accompanies "Soylent," the Silicon Valley invention that just began shipping to subscribers this month. Soylent is a kind of nutritional food replacement that has very little taste to recommend it and is said…

Dont worry about food with Soylent Soylent, the meal replacement dream drink, is now shipping to supporters of the self crowdfunding project launched on the CrowdHoster platform. Created by computer science geek Rob Rhinehart the powdered drink mix ...

Fans of dsytopian Seventies sci-fi will recognise the word Soylent as the “miracle” food stuff whose disturbing origin was uncovered by a khaki-clad, blood-soaked Charlton Heston who was stretchered off the screen while shouting: “Soylent Green is people!

For all you people who having something better to do than eating, you probably won't kill yourself living off of Soylent. That's as rousing an endorsement as I can muster. But it's no more the end of food than Nutren was, no matter the breathless headlines.

A synthetic pearl-white juice 'with the consistency of semen' has seen an unexpected surge in demand after being placed on eBay. Sales of Soylent, which comes in a white pouch with a smattering of nutritional facts emblazoned on the side, have soared…

Soylent is a new “food replacement” created by Robert Rhinehart, an electronical engineer who was looking for a more convenient form of sustinance. The mixture is a relatively tasteless powder that allegedly includes all the nutrients that one needs to…

Those of us over a certain age remember the movie Soylent Green (1973), a dystopian sci-fi nightmare set in the year 2022, in which overpopulation, climate change and pollution have made the earth virtually uninhabitable, and people are fed a processed…

Man cannot live by bread alone — but we can survive on Soylent, a powdered meal replacement that's getting press in articles portending the “end of food.” Developed by Robert Rhinehart, an electrical engineer turned amateur biochemist, the product is…

EARLIER THIS YEAR, we reported on how Soylent, a food formula created from factory produced ingredients, is growing massively in popularity. It has been branded as the ultimate convenience food – it cuts down on time spent buying, making, and eating ...

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…

But, Rhinehart says, that's not exactly his vision. “Most of people's meals are forgotten,” he told me. He imagines that, in the future, “we'll see a separation between our meals for utility and function, and our meals for experience and socialization.”…

After reading the first couple paragraphs of a piece in The New Yorker titled “The End of Food” about Soylent, a new powdered drink intended to replace food entirely, I had to check the post's publish date to make sure it wasn't a product of April Fool's…

NTordenskjold May 08, 2014 18:12 Hello, I am a Soylent fan, been following the project since I first heard about it almost a year ago. The important thing to remember is that it's your own choice if you want to eat it... you don't have to eat it all the…

Thankfully for Soylent's investors, its customers don't seem to be making the playful link with Soylent Green, where Charlton Heston discover a new “high-energy plankton” feeding the starving masses in a futuristically bleak New York, is actually made…

We've been pretty vocal about the long-awaited release of Soylent, the engineered food supplement/substitute. However, every post about Soylent (be it at Ars or anywhere else) draws a not-insignificant number of comments from people who are nervous ...