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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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Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues
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(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Friday October 14 2016, @01:18PM
Nobody is ginding up nails for iron.
Obviously not literally, but the concept is the same. Lots of processed foods are so heavily processed they've taken to fortifying the foods to provide some modicum of nutritional value. Not saying that Soylent specifically is sourcing these from non-plant sources, but why wouldn't they? It's a common practice. Lots of the chemicals they add back are either mined ingredients or synthesized in chemical factory (sometimes from petroleum products).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @02:05PM
Synthesized is just another way to say grown in a vat, like algae.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @09:30PM
Not saying that Soylent specifically is sourcing these from non-plant sources, but why wouldn't they?
Because they actually want to make a product that is sufficiently nutritionally complete that you could, if you wanted, only consume it and be healthy.
If there is a significant difference in the bio-availability of ground-up iron, and iron sourced from algae, that would be a pretty good reason for them not to. If there is no difference, then maybe they would use non-plant sources, but in that case what does it matter? You were complaining about the potential health effects of a diet based largely on Soylent, and so long as the nutrients can be sufficiently well absorbed by the human digestive system, then the original source of them doesn't really matter.
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Well, at least your sig is appropriate.