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I used a whole banana, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, and one packet of Stevia to make my Soylent taste fantastic. I first tried without the Stevia and it still tasted amazing.

Oh, forgot to add: I use cinnamon in my Soylent. Doesn't really add flavor, just seems to neutralize the blend's flavor. When I tried adding enough cinn to make it flavored that way, it was too powdery feeling and was hard to drink. Still, I'm adding…

Coffee Yes, just do it. It's awesome and covers up many funky flavors. I use regular coffee if in the morning, or else decaf coffee. Not that this is the only thing I do. I don't always want coffee flavor, but it sure is nice and adds basically zero…

Thanks, luckily I have 450 bucks to work with through my insurance so depending on the price of things I should be able to get at least a good baseline test.

Cmp &lipid panel. Good place to start. CBC if you want to see where you are in terms of red and white cells. Since there are B vitamins and iron in Soylent ™ if you are anemic it should improve. There are some more specific tests to look at things like…

Episode #3! Thanks again for all the feedback so far. Made a new intro and thumbnail. One of my friends pointed out to me that even though I don't have soylent yet, doing these blogs is going to allow those who don't know me to see any changes in attitude…

Hey congrats on the weight loss, btw

Just a thought...I use WellnessFX to analyze and record my bloodwork. This wouldn't be for everyone, but I wonder if WellnessFX would be willing to give Soylent a small price break if they officially "supported" using WellnessFX for monitoring... But…

Would be awesome to have a dynamic graph of sorts that showed the average trend of the bloodwork based on time compared to before and after soylent and based on how much % soylent the diet is Also, some way to compare healthy skin before and after, such…

https://wiki.fitbit.com/display/API/Fitbit+API @nickp , Integrating this with the Fitbit API would be a good way of tracking that information. If you had a fitbit scale, you'd be able to automatically track your weight, as well. I'd be willing to bet…

I am very much in favor of the idea of publicly available health and nutrition data that can be analyzed in mass without legal hoops to jump through regardless of whether Soylent is involved. My last full-time job involved predictive modelling medical…

This is really good! A few suggestions, from someone who has 1) used online fitness trackers and been annoyed by them and 2) had to draw conclusions from various sources and quality levels of data: If you can get the time to auto-fill to "right now"…

Check out the data I'm currently planning to allow users to track here: http://diy.soylent.me/body-tracker If anyone has any suggestions on extra things to track or what we should change, please let me know! This is a work in progress so nothing is…

Thanks for the additional update, Jonathan. Very interesting, keep 'em coming!

Dasani pineapple coconut is best.

Hmmm that's an interesting idea, hadn't thought of that. I haven't tried that and I think I'm gonna stick with "plain" Soylent for a while, but if anyone else does I'd be interested to hear how they work out!

Yep total afterthought on my part! I just went ahead and recorded a video postscript, uploading now. Glad you like the updates... feels a little silly documenting something so mundane as my diet (and I of all people have always been the one with the…

have you tried the little flavor pods that you squeeze into water to add flavoring?

Yeah saw you mention you were going and saw you talk about not eating as much on the thread here, but nothing in the video. No biggie, just thought maybe I missed an update. Really enjoying them. My Soylent is hopefully coming next week (receive my kit…

Hmmm was pretty sure I did... lemme go check, make sure I didn't leave out a clip or something. Yep I did mention that we were going to go but didn't mention it in today's update. Just didn't even really think about it LOL I'll add a note to the description…

@vanclute, curious why you didn't mention the Mexican food you ate last night in the last video.

Right. Got it. Thanks.

Olive oil is excellent, but is lower in omega-3. The need to include fish oil is higher if you go for olive oil.

Awesome! Thanks. I'll give that a try. One last question, is Canola preferable to you than olive oil? I have oo on hand. <---my lazy side.

Here's my routine, I do it at night after having my last serving. Wash pitcher by hand. Half fill pitcher with water. Cut a 2 inch opening in a top corner of a Soylent pack. Feed the Soylent into the pitcher. Close tight, shake for about 30 seconds.…

About 3.25 tablespoons per pitcher (per pouch)

Do you mind if I ask how much canola oil are you adding per pouch?

Thanks for the email. It answers a couple of my questions.

Here's an email I had with Julio discussing this, his reply is at the top though: From: Soylent [info@soylent.me]Sent: 30 April 2014 00:58To: BenjiSubject: Re: Can you confirm what nutrients we'll be lacking. - Please type your reply above this line…

The tricky part for me is I'm not going by any "serving size", I'm just drinking until I don't feel like drinking anymore, and repeating that as often as I need to. I just happen to know the sizes of my glasses, so those are my basic units of measure…

That's one of the things that both the company and the DIYers have had to deal with... search for 'phytic acid' for more than you'll ever want to see about nutrient blocking/binding.

Keep in mind that fl oz (a measure of volume) and oz (a measure of mass) are two different things while reading this.

Hi Vanclute-I don't think I've seen a reply yet that is very clear so I'm going to provide my take (which I belive is correct )This calculation assumes that you use a full package of powder and the powder plus the water creates a 2 litre mix. TL;DR-6.5653…

@TheMongoose and @NoFlames , That seems to make sense from a large perspective but, my concern is that substances will find a way to bond. When bonding, molecules will change and therefore, in turn, nutrients will change. My concern is that...adding…

@TheMongoose I agree so long as a person also gets enough water since that is also a nutrient.

Good to know! Now that I'm on day 3, I find that my "SoylentMix-fu" is getting stronger. In particular, adding oil and a mixing ball, and letting the whole well-shaken concoction sit in the fridge for at least several hours, has made a big difference.…

This thread should be stickied as a practical example of metric as the more sane school of measurement /joke

Yep this is what I came to as well, around 30 calories per ounce of prepared Soylent. Easy!

The Soylent scoop is a volume/volume mix. The water will weigh much more than the powder. (Sorry, below doesn't answer the exact OP question,but continues the other conversation.)If i'm not mistaken, we can assume that 2000ml premixed soylent=very close…

Thanks that is indeed helpful!

You're thermos and glasses are fluid ounces (volume) and powdered Soylent is measured in ounces (weight), which are not equivalent. Since the powder won't be very dense, 1 ounce (weight) of Soylent powder will have a volume of more than one fluid ounce.…

My suggestion would be to take your blood sugar three times. 1) In the morning before eating. This is known as your fasting glucose reading.2) 2 hours after dinner (or whatever is your highest carb meal). This will show you the spike in your sugar after…

Hmmm you're right, it does say on the scoop, 1 scoop water to 1 scoop soylent. I haven't used the scoop since I've just mixed up a pouch each time and filled the pitcher. With that ratio, there would be WAYYYYY less water and it would be a super thick…

I am confused now, I thought the scoop says 1 scoop of soylent + 1 scoop of water, which implies it is a 50/50 ratio

Hmmm going by calories per ml is actually considerably less easy/practical for me. I just know the size of my glasses (and eventually my insulated thermos that has been ordered) in ounces so that's how much I know I'm consuming. I have small glasses…

It works out much nicer if you are willing to ignore the ounces and use metric units.1 pouch of Soylent is about 2000 Calories (really 2010, but let's round to 2000 since it's very close), and if you mix it up to make a full pitcher, that's 2 liters.…

One issue may be the difference between fluid ounces and ounces (volume vs weight). I'm not sure where your numbers are coming from, but if we assume that both are in ounces (weight), the calculation is relatively simple: If we us Mysitys number of 67…

but there's only 15.7 ounces of powder in a pouch... not half the pitcher's volume. So how much Soylent is being consumed in 1 oz of mixed liquid? This is the number I can't figure out how to come up with.

there are ~67 oz in 2 liters. half of that is the powder, so 67 oz of liquid soylent is 1 pouch of 1 liter. so, 1.5% of your pouch per oz, or 15 ml of powder.

coopertek said: I would really like to try this as both my wife and I have IB issues. My question on the flavoring though is...would diluting Soylent still provide the amount of nutrients (in terms of average daily intake of 2000 cal or more) as it…

Hmmm interesting thought. I started with flavorings only after I had decided to add the oil. The oil helped with consistency a bit, but I didn't notice any flavor difference with that on its own. I didn't try flavoring before adding the oil so I couldn't…

In a previous thread you said you were trying to avoid adding oil but ended up using canola oil. Did you start using the canola oil before you started experimenting with flavors? Was there any significant taste difference with and without oil? I'm wondering…

I'm curious to track my Soylent consumption, but not sure how to do it. I'm mixing up an entire pouch at a time in the supplied pitcher, so I'm more aware of how many ounces I consume, than how much actual powder was used. I'm crappy with measurement…

I would really like to try this as both my wife and I have IB issues. My question on the flavoring though is...would diluting Soylent still provide the amount of nutrients (in terms of average daily intake of 2000 cal or more) as it would if it wasn't…

For powdered additions, try making a slurry out of it with the water first. If you're going to mix 2 liters of water into your Soylent powder, put half of the water and the flavor powder into the blender and mix it up good first, then add the remaining…

I can totally relate to forgetting to eat. Has happened quite often for me. So far, Soylent is sooooo damn convenient and easy that I haven't forgotten once, and I love not having to decide what I'm going to have! I could probably be happier but it…

My experience was that extracts also have a tough time coming through. I tried a couple drops of Stevia (which is seriously potent stuff) and it made an extremely faint difference. I also tried vanilla extract and found that I couldn't really taste…

From what I've gathered so far from reading various posts on the matter, it seems to me that for best results the flavor being added needs to be in liquid form, since powders don't seem to have much effect.

I thought it would be nice to have a specific go-to thread for the experiments people are doing to flavor Soylent. So far it seems that trying to 'add' flavor to the Soylent mixture is a difficult process, specifically when trying to add another powder…

I'd say I really started noticing it by 7 or 8. I was a super-picky eater as a kid (and still am), and the constant frustration and conflict over food just sort of drove me away. I settled into a few stock foods (basically cheese+pasta+olive oil+garlic+pepper+milk)…

For diabetics, it's usually test two hours after you eat, although it depends on what your doctor wants to monitor and some other things. If you're wanting to measure how fast it goes up and down (glycemic spike), you obviously need to do it more often,…

So I decided to take the plunge and do glucose monitoring. I bought all the supplies and after an hour or so spent learning the ins and outs, I'm relatively confident that I'm properly trained to take my blood sugar readings. There doesn't seem to be…

With most of the 1+ month vegan orders shipped, we are extremely happy to announce that general Soylent 1.0 orders will begin shipping this week.  Remaining vegan orders will be shipped with general orders.To ensure that we are able to manage our reorder…

I researched Garden For Life Meal replacement. Seemed closest to Soylent. Non-gmo from vegan sources, no dairy. They use sprouted grains. They add probiotic enzymes and fiber. Seems like they add everything I wish Soylent was. Though they have high heavy…

Thanks! I had some missteps today. The powder didn't mix and I'm wondering if this pouch is bad.

gustav said: Let's say I consume 4 Soylent meals per day, that's 2680 calories - but it's 133 % of many vitamins and minerals and it's 160 % calcium and iron. Such consumption must have negative effects? Possibly. Then again, possibly not. I believe…

Really enjoying your Soylent blog so far. Very much looking forward to seeing how you like life on a liquid diet.

A Withings scale will do a reasonable body fat percentage measurement. I’ve been weighing myself every day since January, and although there’s a fair bit of variance in the body fat percentage it reports, I can see it’s been trending down with my weight…

Hi mate, I think I will watch your vlog, so things I hope you will keep track of before and after, as things others have mentioned Your skin... does it look cleaner, healthier after soylent than before?Nails/hair, both growt and look? (not important)How…

Yeah. Posted way too early. (; I'd go with the easiest ones: Weight + BMI + Body Fat % A $50 scale can easily give you all that. Just remember to measure under the same conditions every time (day of the week, hour, after/before working out, etc.)

I wouldn't think continuous tracking of BMI would make much sense. Since it is directly correlated with weight (for an individual whose height is not changing) wouldn't you just set a target weight if that's what you're after? Alternatively, I would…

Besides weight, keep track of your BMI. Resting Heart Rate is also a good measure. (;

Thanks! Yeah, I watched Rob and other people do this for a year before I jumped in. So many people have had all the tests done, and they are all still kickin. I just wanted to keep it simple and spend my money on food not tests. I figured that if…

Well, guess I got lucky and grabbed the last pair of RSVP at that price... for anyone interested, buying 2x the single level is now cheaper at $22.90 vs $32.99

Mine will definitely have as much science behind it as I can manage. In addition to activity level, sleep quality, weight, blood pressure, body composition, and a comprehensive blood panel, I'm also considering multiple blood sugar readings throughout…

Great! Mine is a lifestyle blog and not at all scientific, so I'd like to link to the ones that will be more statistical.

Mine is up. Unfortunately, I still haven't even gotten a notification on the starter kit yet so I've just got a brief overview up for now. I'm cautiously optimistic the experiment will commence soon... www.lifeafterfood.com

Are any of your blogs up? Can you give us the links? Also, it would be GREAT is someone made a Soylent app that tracked Mood, weight, energy, etc. (kind of like the ones that track women's cycle symptoms).

That is my worry yes. And I think you're right, there is a lot of fiber and fat in just Soylent alone. Maybe I'll go with maltodextrin.

gustav said: Do you thing the "packaging" of the manganese with fiber, fat and other nutrients hinder the manganese from causing harm, or is this bullshit? Never heard about that. 200 gram of oats are just under the UL. But 200 grams on top of already…

I'll look into the manganese warning. The thing is, I've been eating 200 grams of rolled oats for breakfast for years. Do you thing the "packaging" of the manganese with fiber, fat and other nutrients hinder the manganese from causing harm, or is this…

Not sure if that is the best idea. 200 gram of oats contain 10 mg of manganese. Consuming more than 11 mg per day of manganese could cause serious and harmful side effects. Why not just add some empty calories such as maltodextrine? You already ingest…

This is what I'm probably going to do. I'll add 200 grams of oat powder.

Inches. I've heard repeatedly that people trying to "lose weight" should measure inches (e.g. your waistline), not pounds. Mood. Track your own, and track your partner's and have them do the same. I've seen claims in this forum of people's family members…

I've been expecting that reorders won't go as smoothly as they have been saying, although I really hope that they do. I have 10 weeks coming and will probably reorder within the first 4-6 to be safe (unless everything is looking smooth), if that isn't…

im doing just fine with my DIY...i just dont like making it..not 100% sure im getting everything so eating food just incase..plus its a hassle for me...im a consumer at heart...i like to pay for finished products that i know were thought of and created…

@VadimGod that's exactly what I thought when I decided to purchase an additional months supply, not only to hopefully jump to an earlier ship date but also to reduce the pressure on reordering. I get the feeling that they are learning many lessons the…

im concerned that ive seen several times around the forum that reorders should work like clockwork...no issues...i ordered 2 weeks with that confidence that i can reorder and be good to go in a week or 2...then i realized that alot of things that SHOULD…

Just buy some maltodextrin or canola oil, and at this to the mix, until your calories are met. Cheap and easy.

Not that I know of, unfortunately; he posted this at one point: discourse.soylent.me Category definition for Cognition Use this category to discuss cognitive effects including mood, focus, sleep and memory from substances like soylent,…

Drinking pints... of soylent? I'm strangely confused and aroused...

Personally, I'll be throwing utility out the window. I always get excited about opaque drinks because they look so striking in my double walled glasses. They don't sell what I have anymore, but come on this is pure art: http://bodum.bodum.com/us/en-us/shop/prodlist/301/

Do we know which tests in particular he was using from quantified mind? There are only 5 pre-made tests available. Otherwise he might have created his own test... I see that there is an option for that there

Well... it's more expensive, but I think I'm going to go with the first option (RSVP). I'll probably grab the set sometime in the next week or two, and post here how they look when they arrive.

I'm planning on tracking statistics as well. While I was at the doctor's office having blood drawn, I asked the MD if there were any statistics he recommended tracking outside of blood tests. He recommended three things: general activity levels, sleep…

Rob has used http://quantified-mind.com for cognitive tests, he mentioned it several times in some of the early posts.

I'm doing the same. My yearly checkup at the doctor includes a lot of blood work, and I'll be doing another set at 6 months from this site http://www.healthonelabs.com/ during the year. I'll be checking my metabolic panel and lipids again. Otherwise,…

Also hoping to find out the process for re-ordering. My Soylent should arrive today or tomorrow (probably Tomorrow it seems) and I plan to try some, hopefully like it, and immediately order my next month's supply. Just want to know how exactly we're…