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Anyone else notice at least three of the soylent guys seem to have this unusual flush on their cheeks? Is this just sheer vitality glowing from them or could there be something else going on? :)
I've seen several pictures of Rob and his face seems to be constantly red.
Do you know if their Soylent recipe uses carrots or other pigmented vegetables? It could be an accumulation of the coloring. (This apparently happened to me as an infant with carrots. Made my face red/orangish.)
The early version contains carotenoids found in pigmented vegetables, at least lycopene found in tomatoes, and alpha-carotene found in carrots. It seems you'd get much less carotenoids from Soylent than just eating one tomato and one carrot per day.
He mentions "not very scientific, but the males in my family have always loved tomatoes." Perhaps that's the explanation and not Soylent, although you get three times less carotenoids from tomatoes compared to carrots so you'd probably have to eat ridiculous amounts of them to become red. Perhaps they love carrots too.
Early recipe, and practically speaking, I don't know what the effects of one tomato & carrot a day would be! Rhinehart and the others have been on Soylent for, what, a year now? That's a long time for stuff to slowly accumulate. Most people don't eat a single vegetable that routinely. During the summer I eat 1 tomato a day (we grow ours) without glowing, but then I don't eat any tomatoes during spring/winter, which is disanalogous.