Stuff to know: history, product links, and more.

This pinned post links to key background info on Soylent and all the little 'Lents:

  • The Past of the FutureFood has the history of how Rob Rinehart set out to eat better nutrition that took less time and money to prepare -- and how his quest went viral and created an industry.

  • The World of Meal Replacements is our alphabetical directory to nearly seventy meal-replacement products.

  • BlendRunner and Nutritionally Complete Review are two great sites that help you sort out all those Fufos. BlendRunner lets you sort the many products by price, by macronutrients, and many other ways. Nutritionally Complete Review has user reviews of many products, and lets you filter them by country of origin and by brand.

  • Who uses Soylent and why? has typical users giving the many reasons why they replace one or more of their daily meals with a beige liquid.

  • Good for what ails you? A collection of posts in which people with medical conditions say how the use of a 'lent helps them. Diabetes? Compulsive hand-biting? All that.

  • The Flavorings Thread has every flavoring we can imagine.

  • Good shaker bottles and pitchers has links to Amazon. Add your recommendations!

  • How to carry your food to work has a solution for how to carry bottles of pre-mixed future food to work, school, or the gym.

  • Soylent and some other (but not all) meal replacements contain soy, and soy is often criticized as unhealthy by food faddists. This detailed article reviews the evidence to show that soy's effects on health are all either positive or neutral.

  • Soylent is not Ensure, and why compares Soylent to old-style bottled nutrient products.

  • Soylent is not Slimfast, and why compares Soylent and others to some meal replacements sold for weight loss.