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Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues

posted by martyb on Friday October 14 2016, @08:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the passing-problems dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Ars Technica reports, following online reports of customers becoming ill after eating Soylent's new snack bars, the company announced this afternoon [October 13] that it has decided to halt all sales and shipments of the bars as a precautionary measure. The company is urging customers to discard remaining bars and will begin e-mailing customers individually regarding refunds. In a blog announcing the decision, the company said it is still investigating the cause of bouts of illnesses of customers linked to the bars, including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @12:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @12:14PM (#414241)

    Ensure is loaded with sugar. It is not suitable for consumption by normal, healthy adults because the nutritional proportions are out of whack. A meal of soylent is much closer to being balanced both for macro nutrients of fat/carbs/protein and micro-nutrients like RDA levels of vitamins. It isn't better than a meal prepared from scratch out of fresh ingredients. But it is better than nearly the entire menu at mcdonalds/taco-bell/burger-king/etc and is unquestionably better than a bag of chips or snack-cakes from a vending machine. Its also better than simply skipping a meal.

    Nobody is required to eat a 100% soylent diet, in fact hardly anyone does. But if you normally skip breakfast or buy crappy fast-food for lunch, soylent is a far better choice.