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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.

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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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  • (Score: 1) by charon on Saturday October 15 2016, @12:23AM

    by charon (5660) on Saturday October 15 2016, @12:23AM (#414484) Journal
    I've never tried Soylent, and I'm not really tempted to, but every time I read about it I can't help but think of this stuff [wikipedia.org] which is technically fully nutritious but is fed to prison inmates as punishment.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @02:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @02:02PM (#414592)

    Its questionable whether nutraloaf is actually nutritionally complete.

    But one main difference is that nutraloaf is bland in order to punish the eater, soylent is bland in order to make it palatable to the maximum number of people, there are no strong flavors to turn off picky eaters. Because of that you can easily flavor soylent - chocolate, coconut, peanut butter, cinnamon, banana, strawberry, orange cream, taco seasoning, caramel, butterscotch, coffee, mint, cookies and cream, etc - so soylent meals can not only be flavorful but also have a pretty good variety of flavors.