[camdykeman]

This mix is completely devoid of BCAAs. Soy protein has no branch chain amino acids - meaning it completely lacks THE fundamental building blocks used in building all bodily tissue.

Look more into different kinds of protein. You might also want to do this for your carbs. Suggesting that brown sugar is a good way to "top up" our carb load is terrible advice - all cane sugars are simple sugars, meaning they jack up your glycemic index and then crash you after. Complex carbs have a completely different rate and method of metabolism.

Please don't offer this as an option to people until you've done some substantial (read minimal) research. At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment and not a hobby-kit. Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.

[axb]

Soy is a complete protein. It contains all three BCAAs: leucine, isoleucine, and valine.

[camdykeman]

Yeah, I tried to edit the "completely" out of my phrasing almost immediately but comments had already been left so I couldn't.

To clarify, soy is a complete protein. What I meant was that the levels of BCAAs in soy are relatively low - especially when only taking in ~80g of total protein / day as the recipe suggests. This is why many longterm vegetarians/vegans often still have to supplement, dispite a high-soy diet. Soy protein is composed of about 18% BCAAs and is fast to metabolise, especially when isolated and diluted in liquid. Furthermore, without solid food in your stomach, certain enzymes are never released by your body's GI so metabolism is left almost entirely to your kidneys.

[DanBC]

> At least Rhinehart’s project is presented as an experiment

Wait, what? Have you read the crowd funding page for Rhinehart's project?

(http://www.soylent.me/)

It's terrible. It claims it's safe, and puts you in optimum health, and etc etc.

> Theres an ethical responsibility involved in projects like this that the OP is blatently neglecting.

I agree. I think these are terrible ideas.

[zachalexander]

>>Theres an ethical responsibility ... that the OP is blatently neglecting

Did you not see the "I am not a doctor" disclaimer?

I'm serious. I personally talked about this to my doctor – the same guy who told me a year ago that the best thing I could do to be healthy is eat a varied, vegetable-rich, meat-low, Pollanesque diet – and he thought it was a good idea. And I recommend people do the same thing.

[eclipxe]

Yeah, seriously. "top up your carbs with some brown sugar!" made me cringe.

[zachalexander]

Why, exactly?

If your concern is GI, the impact on blood sugar is going to be very much blunted by all the protein, fat, and fiber. I don't remotely feel a sugar rush when I drink this.

[hablahaha]

People are protein...