Ah, not sarcasm. Courtesy of Julia Galef via Richard Dawkins:

This is the Golgi apparatus, which is a structure in the cell that distributes macro-molecules around the cell. And when Dawkins was at Oxford, there was an elderly professor in the department who was famous for his claim that the Golgi apparatus was illusory, that it was an artifact of observation, that it didn’t actually exist. So one day a visiting professor from the States came to give a talk at Oxford in which he presented new and compelling evidence that the Golgi apparatus was, in fact, real. So, as you can imagine, throughout the whole talk everyone is glancing over at the elderly professor like, “How’s he taking this? What’s he going to say?” And at the end of the talk, the elderly professor marches up to the front of the lecture hall and he extends his hand and he says, “My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these 15 years.”

I'm most compelled by the whole foods/bioavalibility argument (point 3 here.) and the likely comparative glycemic indices. Like, my marginal cost per meal is still lower on Green (since I've bought half the ingredients for the next months/years/decades), and it's worked for me, but if I were to make a suggestion to past-me, it probably would've been for Orange.

Except... now I think about it, I'm again compelled by my previous "cleanliness" arguments (Green doesn't contain any extras, some of which you don't want). Also, never grocery shopping is really, really nice.

Revised opinion: I know no one to whom I'd recommend Orange over Green. I will try Orange for comparative mental effects. If they're comparable or superior to Green, I'll switch, but I'm personally okay rolling dice wrt long-term health for a performance buff now (choosing Green over Orange reduces my expected life-years, but I'm okay with that if it increases what I get done during them/it gets done sooner so multiplicative effects can start multiplying earlier.).

And, in all seriousness, I've just updated a lot, and appreciate your role in sparking that (even if you didn't mean to).

Also, DIY Green is seriously easy to make. It's something like 2 minutes to put together a batch, which is an absolute godsend when you're pressed for time (like during semester). You need to set up some infrastructure to make that work, but you can do that when you're not under a time constraint.

...Food is complicated. Attempts to make it simple have... apparently made it more complicated. We may have just done this to ourselves (or mealsquares gets going and becomes price-competitive with soylent. Then food will be solved Once And For All and it'll be simple.)

I ramble. tl;dr: thank you (sincerely).