• darganon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been drinking soylent as a primary source of food for 3.5 years, including 2000 calories a day of it when I was gaining weight.

    You will save money and effort of preparing and eating food. You will wash a lot of cups.

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      1 year ago

      But soylent is closer to a smoothie than water with dissolved minerals. I think if you really tried to consume all your vitamins, minerals and proteins from something with near water like viscosity you would have to be drinking it constantly. You would be peeing 100 times a day too.

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        1 year ago

        Pharmacist and 4th year medical student here. Fun fact is TPN (total parenteral nutrition, i.e. IV food) is usually somewhere around 2L of volume daily, and the limiting factor preventing us from concentrating it more is the protein component. We can make some really concentrated sugar solutions, fat is so calorie dense it doesn’t take up much space either, but protein isn’t particularly calorie dense and can’t be concentrated very high before it starts to crystallize.

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          I don’t know why I didn’t think about it. IV food would be precisely this already. 😅