RE: Soylent Ingredient Breakdown from a Food Scientist
Hello Andrew, you got one thing wrong in your analysis which led to another mistake near the end - Soylent is not a meal replacement. Unlike Slimfast and Garden of Life, Soylent is a food item. It would be like calling a salad a meal replacement for eggs on toast. The main difference between meal replacements and food is calories, and sometimes protein or other macronutrients.
The second mistake is your value comparison. $60 Garden of Life meal replacement does get you 28 of what they call meals - which is equivalent to 3500 total kcal. $54 of Soylent gets you 28 of what they call meals - or 14000 kcal. That means Soylent, analyzed as a food item, is about 4x less expensive.
RE: GMOs, the company is solidly pro-GMO and I don't see them changing any time soon.
edit: as an fyi 1.5 is not being produced any more, their current powder is 1.6. There was some major change, rice protein is now completely out.
Thanks for having a post that adds some value to the discussion. I wish people were more likely to give comments like yours a thumbs up even if it doesn't agree 100% with what either they or the OP is saying. Comments that simply pile on the love without saying anything shouldn't be upvoted so much, IMO. Let's promote valuable discussion and different viewpoints by giving useful comments more love.