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0 pointsDanBC12y ago0 comments

I hope you enjoy it! It'd be interesting to hear how you get on.

If you decide you don't like soylent there are a bunch of other products from other more mainstream manufacturers.

Fortisip and Ensure are the two brands I'm most familiar with, but there are others. Fortisip do wide range of different style products (shake, juice, yoghurt, and 'savory'.) But it's an acquired taste.

I'm not sure why they have two trailing slashes. (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)

(http://ensure.com/)

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rosser12y ago

You might want to avoid Ensure. In a test where it was used in place of the standard glucose solution for an oral glucose tolerance test, it caused 2 hour blood glucose levels over 180 mg/dl in some subjects.

Sure, it's marketed as having a low glycemic index — but the GI of chocolate cake and ice cream is even lower...

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