Soylent | Starving Dietitian

Plentiful Powdered Foods

September 16, 2014 by joshua iufer

Friends, we are at the doorstep of a radical new way to view the foods we eat. I’ve mentioned products like Soylent before, and I’ll be the first to admit I was initially weary of the idea. That was, until I started providing consults for some of the dieters. “It gives me a feeling that I can control food again” “Even one meal a day is so much easier” These are some of my clients’ phrases I couldn’t get […]

Categories: FOOD • Tags: Cooking, Dietitian, Food, Health, Nutrition, Powdered Foods, Soylent, Supplements

Rise of the Digital Supermarket

August 15, 2014 by joshua iufer

“For the times, they are a changing” I’ve loved this song since I first heard it. Not just for the words, or the tune, but for the message it carries. Things change, people change, accept it or prepare to fight. Often my thoughts will wander in and out of particular mindsets, this week was a futurist mindset from start to finish. The future of food is something I’ve talked about before, but I’ve reached a new place of understanding. A […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Diet, Dieting, future food, Soylent, tech, Technology

Ms. Information

May 24, 2013 by joshua iufer

There’s a saying that goes “Without misinformation, we’d hardly have any at all.” This holds doubly true in the field of nutrition. It seems like every day another fortune is made based on lies, myths, and half-truths.The newest could be a failure of colossal proportions. I’m hesitant to even discuss the company but here it is, the company goes by the name Soylent. Marketing genius’ right? Naming a food after ground up people? Well at least it’s edgy, I’ll give them […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Dietitian, DIYSoylent, Nutrition, Shakes, Soylent, Supplements

Soylent Beef

April 10, 2013 by joshua iufer

I realize the Soylent card has been played, and played, and played some more. But trust me when I say it’s far from dead. Every time a simple joe happens to create his own tube feeding formula the term rears its nasty head. The word Soylent is itself quite ironic since the climax of the movie revealed, Gasp!, Soylent was human meat, or a mixture of sorts. Keep in mind the film was shot at the height of the “soy revolution”. When […]

Categories: FOOD • Tags: Beyond Meat, Food Science, Meat, Soylent, TVP