Nutritional meal powder is popular in Silicon Valley Food can also be full of software thinking

when
IT
elite cooking: the world no longer has food what can technology bring to food? Perhaps technology will change the final shape of food.Soylent
, a nutritional meal known as the "Terminator of Food," became popular in Silicon Valley in 2014 and around the world in 2015.Soylent
a powdered product that replaces the energy needed for a meal with just water and stirring. At first, this nutritional product was very popular among Silicon Valley engineers, and its convenient way of eating not only allowed busy engineers to devote more time to their work, but also avoided the health threats posed by fast food.in early August 2015,
Soylent
introduced version 2.0, eliminating the need for water and stirring, but drinking on the go and dropping to $2 per 400 kC.question is, but can this nutritional powder, which claims to be nutritious and saves time and money, really replace the eating habits that humans have evolved over thousands of years?the nutritional powderthe
from a 1937 sci-fi film,
SoylentGreen
. The film depicts a future world in which real fruits and vegetables become so expensive that people rely on
Soylent
made from soybeans (
soy
) and lentils (
lentil
) as global warming and overpopulation deplete resources.
RobRhinehart
, the inventor of soylent
, was a software engineer when
Rhinehart
, who had worked for a wireless communications company for a long time, suddenly realized in 2013 that he was eating badly. "I wanted to create something that would benefit people all over the world who worked as hard as he did." He later recalled. So he founded the
Soylent
in Los Angeles and
more than $3
from the crowdsage-sourced website Tilt.Rhinehart,
promote his products, posted a blog post titled "How I Stopped Eating." The article mentions that "my physique has obviously improved, my skin is lubricated, my teeth are whiter, my hair is thicker, and I don't even have dandruff!" Finally, he concludes, "I haven't eaten a meal in 30 days, and my life has changed." Theorders are constantly increasing. So far, they have sent more than 6 million such "foods" across the United States.
Rhinehart
declined to give further financial details, but said his company's quarterly shipments could be "in thousands of tons" and had attracted $24.5 million in investment.concept of software-thinking food -generation food is not new, but
Soylent
is different because it's more like a product full of software development thinking.Soylent
contains a manual, but officially it's called
Release Notes
" (version description), which is undoubtedly a game for the software industry. Not only that,
's
product thinking as a software engineer is revealed everywhere.Soylent
the formula is not static, but is constantly being modified and refined.in the open source world, people have a right to know the source code of the software they use, and everyone can participate in software improvements.
soylent
is fully public and can be found on the official website. vary greatly from person to person in height, weight, body fat content, etc., so everyone needs different nutrients and calories every day.
Soylent
officially set up
DIY
website:
DIY Soylent
. The site can develop the best formula for you based on all aspects of your body. And a variety of nutrition experts publish their own configuration of "recipes" to meet the needs of a variety of special groups of people. You can find detailed tuning methods and its evolution in
Soylent
in recent years, as well as a platform dedicated to
Soylent
and the exchange of information and communication between hackers known as the
Food World". note that
Soylent
itself does not support personalization, and the recipes given on
DIY Soylent
can only be purchased on Amazon and formulated at home. future of food a consumer once recorded how he had
a month
soylent. From receiving the "goods", according to the instructions, to the taste, after taking the effect, the record is complete. "Long-term '
'
is a grind." The consumer said. Although the consumer was tempted by the aroma of regular food during his drinking, he found that after a month of eating
Soylent
, his health was not affected and he lost 12 pounds. However, he also mentions: "Chatting with colleagues at lunchtime, choosing which restaurant to go to for dinner, and having a drink on the weekend are all time-consuming and brain-consuming behaviors, and 'eating' and our social and entertainment are intertwined in every aspect of life." A small change in eating habits is like a big change in the trajectory of everyday life.
Soylent
so unwittingly isolated me from everyone. For , eating is not only a matter of filling their stomachs and supplementing their nutrition, but also an important way to socialize. But for Silicon Valley engineers who work day and night,
Soylent
does improve productivity - it's cheap, fast, and just grunts to get back to work at the computer as soon as possible. in a Silicon Valley environment, even for the highest-level technicians, the time spent eating is a "pain." Tesla
CEO
musk once said, "If there's a way to do more without eating, then I'd rather not eat." I hope there's a way to absorb all the nutrients without having to sit down and eat. However, Musk did not respond when asked if
had tried
the Soylent test. ideal scenario for me is that I could buy some of these drinks at the airport that were prepared in advance and put in the fridge, " he says.
Ohanian
, one of

investors
Soylent, said he sees the drink as a back-up food. The entrepreneur, who often flies between New York and San Francisco because of his work relationship, said he would turn on some
Soylent
for a day if he felt too tired to get something to eat. rise of chinese substitute drinks reflects Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial bubble. The makers of the new drink say their products are stronger than powders that have been on the market for years because they tend to contain too much sugar and place too much emphasis on protein use. By
, soylents
a mixture of nutrients, and they say people only need to drink the drink to stay healthy. some programmers have even adapted this meal substitute food to socialize. Pulak
, a 23-year-old software programmer,
hosted a party in an IKEA-style apartment in his neighborhood, where he was staying, to treat six friends in the technology industry. There are only Thai noodles on the menu and
with
soylents. ,
the taste
Soylent's food needs to adapt, and it tastes a bit like a bland pancake pasta. Because of this problem, there are still a lot of Silicon Valley engineers who are not used to it. "I'm starting to hate it,
" says dan Sparks
, an engineer in Silicon Valley. ”