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Based on the last time I looked at a label on a 12-20ish (I don't know the size offhand) Odwalla bottle, it's probably about 2-300 calories, mostly from sugars, with 0 fat, little protein (unless it's a supplemented flavor which I'm not sure Odwalla makes), maybe some vitamins but not fortified either.

A meal of Soylent is 679 calories with exactly a third of all your daily requirements. It is literally a battery for humans.

If you eat anything but Soylent it is a literal certainty you are slowly starving yourself of nutrients you just happen to not get in your preferred diet. This makes sense, because, like many things, humans aren't automatically optimal at engineering diets. This is why we have startups, because they can take this crazy idea (what if we made the optimal utility food), take VC funding, and create something special. Never before in human history have we been so privileged and lucky to be alive.




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