An intelligent, common-sense essay on Soylent

Our Food Critic Subsisted Mainly on Soylent for a Month, and He'd Probably Do It Again

For a month, I mostly subsisted on it. For 30 days in September and early October, the period where we do the bulk of our Restaurant Guide magazine, I consumed Soylent for my meal unless I was reviewing a restaurant.

wweek.com

Martin Cizmar is the food critic for the Portland, OR paper Willamette Week. Recently he spent a month on more than 50% Soylent:

For 30 days in September and early October, the period where we do the bulk of our Restaurant Guide magazine, I consumed Soylent for my meal unless I was reviewing a restaurant. Because I do not fully trust Soylent (more on that in a second), I supplemented it with fish oil and one pint of phytochemical-rich blueberries.

In the linked essay he explains he did it because "I wanted to explore my relationship with food". He quotes with approval some of Rob Rinehart's views on food and notes,

I'm a food critic in a city that's obsessed with organic, natural farm-to-table food, but I'm also deeply sympathetic to Rhinehart's vision, especially when it comes to solving our society's chronic scarcity.

If you use, or are interested in, meal replacements, the whole essay is well worth your time to read it.