It doesn't compete against individual foods. It competes against diets. If you went through the work to make sure the diet was perfectly balanced, than it probably wouldn't be that hard to beat Soylent, although I'm not sure the margin it's possible to beat it by would do much. I don't think things like WholeFoods and farmers' markets would be necessary. On the other hand, if you were trying to make a diet just by looking at a few major nutrients, or worse, whatever you happen to crave, you're not going to beat Soylent, regardless of the quality of food.
Taken as a single meal, it's not hard to beat Soylent. After all, Soylent has a third your recommended daily value of calories. Given how much Americans tend to eat, food with less than a third would be healthier.
It doesn't compete against individual foods. It competes against diets.
No, that doesn't seem to be true. Let's take me. I can drink Soylent or I can eat a variety of food, these are the two choices I am facing. There doesn't have to be any "diet" involved.
Soylent doesn't compete against individual foods. It competes against food, in all its variety.
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