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The meal replacement shakes I've seen generally aren't as complete, and they generally rely on outdated FDA figures. I doubt you'll find the IOM-reccommended amounts of choline in most of them, for example.

I took interest in soylent for many of the same reasons Rob posted about: eating is a chore to me, food is expensive, takes a long time to prepare. I wasn't eating enough to begin with so a 2052 calorie intake of soylent for me is plenty satiating, as…

I mentioned this in another thread, but when I drink mine, I feel full but not particularly satisfied per se -- that is, I know I don't need to have anything more, but I still crave food. I've been using about 2/3 of the RDA for fats to try to drop some…

en.wikipedia.org Leptin 1AX8 Leptin (from Greek λεπτός leptos, "thin"), the "satiety hormone", is a hormone made by fat cells which regulates the amount of fat stored in the body. It does this by adjusting both the sensation of hunger,…

Like I was saying before, I can't wait for "show and tell".All the thanks to Rob for finally getting this place up and running so we all have a true community to share and learn from.

I am excited for the G+ hangouts and such. Just today with this Discourse launch, I have learned an incredible amount. I think the hangout sessions will be great conversations. Sundays Soylent Scene 1st Hangout!

Thanks a lot. I am messing around with ideas for a memorable emblem of sorts.

I don't know if anyone has experience going to a diet consisting of entirely meal replacements for an extended period of time, but I would be very interested in one particular aspect of the experience and perhaps someone who has would know. What are the…

It is pretty amazing how many people are here. Sure! I hope it is helpful! Let me know if you have any questions about what I did. This site will hopefully become useful for details about each nutrient, but there isn't a whole lot on it yet. http://soylent.wikia.com/wiki/Soylent_Wiki

Link to G+ Btw Nice Graphic

Community supported Google+ group.Cmon, it's actually good for you! Join Now

Do most people find Soylent as filling as the guy who started this? I've only seen one post on the subject, and the person still felt hungry after a glass of soylent.

We are doing research with some of the "complete" meal powders as a base. The ones we have found that we like so far are: Nude Food, a nutrient dense granular "powder" all natural that contains hemp seed and most of what you need. They also make Nu De…

Hi Carvie, as I was working it out, I was under the impression that since the body can handle up to 300x the daily requirement of Idoine there would be no problem, but I wanted to double check. The problem is that your body needs a few grams of potassium,…

So I take it that the 6 bananas I eat per day just ain't cutting it?

Would you please do the math to figure the proper dosage for potassium iodide for those of use who would like to use that form? Thanks

Here's an un-editable one that I've been working on: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApoO17AdqbMAdEtPVHRqazgtUkNGeUN1elVmWFNCWUE&usp=sharing Ignore the first two pages (I'll probably delete them soon). The last four pages lay out the proportions…

Nice! love the colors and beautiful layout. well done!

I like it, i will likely borrow it as a guiide for my own, thanks for sharing ! Just curious, whats the difference between the "Personal" and "Lower Calorie/Sodium" columns, whats your thinking there?

As much as I think most of us would help developing a community website for something we love, it would detract and split users form this site (discourse) which in itself is a community/social website. Creating another website would detract and eventually…

As far as a community website I actually think this is a community website. Discourse, the forum software, is meant to be entirely community run, moderation eventually falls to the users (at some point the developers may even intend it to be automatic).…

Well said @sloan . I dont know much about the google groups other than the singularity hub group i am a part of. i have no idea on how to set one up or the likes. if you wanted to cover that bit. I am excited about the G+ community as the hangout feature…

I don't think that Rob is planning on making a community website. A "community" website, by definition, is a website that is built and operated by the community. And, if WE can do a good enough job, then he doesn't need to worry about it! He can focus…

Goals, monetization, potential web sites. Rob is a software developer remember, that's just the reason why I think he probably already has at least somewhat of an idea what he's going to be doing on this front.

I'll help. I can hardly run my iPhone but I can send research articles or links etc?

What do you mean? Managing what "things?"

Wow @adamwong246 I literally had the exact same name thought of, but I think I kept the "green". I'm sure it's a common thought with this product, but nice hivemind anyhow. EDIT: @Kevin Also, the google "community" is a very nice idea to keep people…

https://github.com/adamwong246/SoylentIsMadeForPeople

Rob is probably managing these things. Or has plans to. All right back to work for me.

I love this Discourse tool, and agree conversation should be centered here. thought the G+ would be nice to do live google hangouts and such, just as an added layer of this community here. Not with the intention to pull connections from here, just add…

Salt substitute (Potassium Chloride) has 56% DV in each teaspoon. That stuff has a really strong salty flavor though. If you make more than 3 quarts of soylent per day then it should be fine, but any less and you'll taste it a lot.edit

So let's hash out some ideas... I'm a Rails dev, so I'm biased towards Ruby on Rails. We can host on heroku and manage from github. Questions:What do we call this hypothetical website? I'm thinking SoyletIsMadeForPeople.comWhat are the specific goals?Monetization?…

I also use the NOW Brand potassium gluconate powder (Amazon) and it goes very quick. I need to find myself a supplier. Lab supply or brewery supply or something...

I agree with chris. Let's coordinate our efforts from here and not break up the community. I'm sure we can get our own category if need be.

I got the NOW brand potassium gluconate online for fairly cheap. It's 1/6 elemental potassium by weight. The bottle's suggested dose is 1/2 teaspoon for 270mg, so I use 2 teaspoons in a serving.

I will do google hangouts during my 30day experiment with soylent on the new G+Community. would be cool to do a weekly Soylent Community Hangout where we all log in and talk about our experiences.

I suspect community will stay centered around this discussion forum (which is probably a good thing). The network effect is essential. I also suspect funding from the kickstarter will cover any web development needs - it might even be a local team since…

Joined group. C'mon everyone!

Definitely buy this one in powder form. A lot easier than swallowing or grinding that many pills.

Good Idea, went ahead and made a google community if people are interested in gathering there as well. Ill share admin privileges with anyone, just message me.*Edit, Recommend keeping conversations and such here as Discourse is awesome, G+hangout is an…

What have people been using as a source for potassium? It's my understanding that the FDA restricts potassium supplements to a mere 3% of daily requirements. Are there any alternatives to taking 33 doses of a particular supplement?

You should make a google group for the project. I'd love to help, but I don't have a lot of time. So I'd like to keep an eye on the dev cycle and see if my interest will spark some

Was this the source of the "noxious fumes" at your place I saw on Twitter/DNews? I had a suspicion...

I have been a designer for years, I can make things look really pretty if you can make them functional I would love to help out.

My Mind = Blown. I clearly had no idea how many people have already been tinkering with this. Thank you @alexkirkp for posting your spreadsheet: http://discourse.soylent.me/discourse/t/ingredients-by-someone-that-has-made-the-drink/189 I'll definitely…

I was born in Whitefish, moved to san diego for about 14 years, but had to get outa the city life. I have a view of glacier out my front door. I just cant seem to justify ever changing that view.

Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK. Thats about right smack in the middle of England.

Essentially, Soylent IS weight gainer, or meal replacement powder. The only differences are that we get to formulate it ourselves, and it's meant to actually replace most of our daily meals (if not all). Look at the ingredients for any weight gainer (this…

When you said Montana I had a strange feeling you might be from Kalispell or nearby, hah!

Dude, Kalispell? wtf are the chances of that!? Same here. Small world man.

Tyler, Texas, USA. And, since I don't see a specific category for it, I guess this is part of where I'm from too: http://wheretheresawilliam.blogspot.com/2013/04/weird-science.html

http://discourse.soylent.me/discourse/t/ingredients-by-someone-that-has-made-the-drink/189 Relevant thread for "next steps", he also included his sources.

I am from Kalispell, Montana, but I'm here in Denver, Colorado, and probably for quite a while longer.

Northern New Jersey, USA. Looks like we've bypassed Spring and have already gone into Summer!

Chicago here. Current weather: rainCurrent political climate: corruptCorporeal safety level: dangerous

in the skydrive document, columns H & I are the details of the amazon link - as you can see sometimes these dosages are more than the daily recommended. i haven't yet calculated daily costs for all nutrients (this would mean "cutting" pills in fractions…

Alameda, Ca in da house.

Austin, Texas reporting in.

Albuquerque New Mexico. If you end up here, make sure to take a left.

Hahaha. Same here: Orlando, FL. Beautiful and 82°F today. Might make sense to start another Google doc where people who are interested can add their name/city/state to start getting groups together.

Hello! I'm from Richmond, VA, USA. I just recently found out I have ALS and possibly Celiac Disease. This Soylent mix sounds very likely to be a simple way to go glutten free for most of my meals. I certainly hope so!

Colorado. Come here! Although ski season ends this weekend.

Yes I do, see here: http://discourse.soylent.me/discourse/t/soylent-early-adopters-experiences-tips/125

I'm from Veracruz, Mexico. But I live in Mexico city for the University, Don't come here. Seriously

Thank you, but as it is right now it's only ~5% done, please help if you can, any little bit is appreciated.

Florida, it's warm and amazing here. Don't come here. Seriously

San Francisco, California. No excuse not to be more involved I guess

Upstate New York. Yes, it's cold and horrible here. Don't come here. Seriously.

It would be really great to have a functionality that when provided with a personal profile (height, weight, activity level, body fat %, Basel Metabolic Rate, etc , could calibrate Soylent.

Montana here! I am Far Far away as well Dalcol, beautiful thing this internet is. the chance that we can create techno-social worm holes and find similar minds sharing thoughts and ideas! Reminds me of this vdeo:

Just thought we could know each other's locations. It could be useful for buying ingredients in groups or sharing. I'm from far far away! Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. =) (And I'm sorry for occasional English mistakes in advance)

This is great! thank you for taking the time to put this together!

In response to @Mick, I'm not sure how the site is going to be moderated yet, but my intent for this topic was a discussion of the raw ingredients, not mixtures of off-the-shelf products. In my opinion, there are too many unknowns in off-the-shelf products…

The DNews testers seemed to enjoy 'iced soylent'. My heat tolerance tests left me with a number of unpleasant reactions so I do not recommend cooking it, but sub 200 F should be fine.

This is my personal cheat sheet that I've been working on.If you find it helpful let me know, and I'm very open to input/suggestions.Link: table  [jcanuet@gmail.com ][…

Thank you very much.

I assume discussion of potential Soylent sales packaging are appropriate under the "manufacture" rubric. Side note; I find it amusing that the discussion board spell check doesn't recognize the name "Soylent" yet. I would like to suggest that the packaging…

on your uneditable list, are the values for 1 large batch to have throughout the day, or would you need to make it 3 times using those values?

Hi guys, is anyone else having problems with fat sources? I tried olive oil like Rob suggested but it makes the whole thing taste awful! Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong? By the way, how did you find out which protein Rob is using? Are you…

That's a good point @lox, I didn't think about the implications on Cl intake. I've been looking for sources of Cl, but there are limited options since most people get more Cl than they need because most people get more Na than they need. I guess something…

Has anyone tried adding some MSG?

Rob would have to decide, but maybe a separate category for ingredients would be appropriate.

I'm working on an un-editable one (sorry I don't want my organization to go haywire) here: http://sdrv.ms/10QKd5t. Has most Amazon links and some notes. You're welcome to dl it for yourself or combine the two. Edit - this list is organized mostly for…

That is why I divide servings of soylent into thirds throuhtout the day. Do you use olive oil for the fat?

Thank you everyone, I'd like this to become the de-facto ingredient list.

Yeah, I am using olive oil and I think that could possibly be the problem too.

I'm a web developer and I have an idea for website. It's a social network where you can share recipes but more importantly, you can upload health records. Blood tests, fitness tests, urine tests, even genome sequencing results. This will give the real…

Public editable google doc of ingredients

Yeah, but you must account for the elemental chloride in sodium chloride too. The total atomic weight of sodium chloride is ~58.442. ~39% of sodium chloride is elemental sodium and the other ~61% is chloride. The CDC might recommend 1.5 g of sodium…

Terrific. Really looking forward to trying it. So tired of the (fill in reason) of fud.

I use 6g of non-iodized salt and it doesn't taste salty in the least. I SINCERELY hope no one is attempting to ingest this in a single glass, we're talking more like diluted in a gallon of water here consumed over the course of a day. I only mention this…

I just use table salt. All proportions come from the molar mass. I honestly think it improves the taste versus the formulation sans salt. Are you sure none of your other ingredients contain sodium? Are you using olive oil? If so try adding Lecithin.…

@dalcol I started a new topic to share experience among those of us trying it ourselves so we don't pollute this intro post: http://discourse.soylent.me/discourse/t/soylent-early-adopters-experiences-tips/125

Thanks so much for getting this off the ground. I can't wait to put together a plan and try my own Special Brew.

i'm also curious about this. i assumed that for K and Cl, he included KCl which is commercially available, but then table salt would add in more Cl... so is there an alternate source of these elements? i've also noticed that the nutrients that are included…

since it's still in the testing phase i'm sure that's what is going on right now with the different test subjects

The CDC recommends 1.5 g of sodium intake per day, so I'd say you probably don't need to add 5 grams to your mixture. Not sure about the whey protein, and I'm not sure if reducing the sodium would help the taste, but I hope this info helps

I had a similar issue with taste regarding to salt even though I'm using a smaller amount than you.

I added ~5 grams of sodium chloride (iodized salt) to my mixture which might have made it taste extremely salty and unpleasant to drink. Also, I used unflavored whey protein isolate too, but I see you use the vanilla Cytosport branded whey powder, so…

Click your name, then click messages, and there's a welcome message. I had this problem too, and after I read the message the notification went away. I'm not sure why clicking on the talk bubble doesn't bring you to your messages, or whatever it's notifying…