
It’s been two years since we took our first sip of Soylent (which means it’s been two years since a few thousand people started following me on Twitter because I talked about farts). The liquid food product has been through a bunch of iterations since, including a premixed variant, but it’s remained essentially the same product: a beige liquid of indeterminate taste that purports to give your body everything it needs to survive. But today, Soylent founder Rob Rhinehart announced that the company is moving in a new direction: breakfast.
This morning’s announcement marks the release of Coffiest, Soylent’s first spin-off product. The new offering has the same ingredient makeup, nutritional mix, and 47/33/20 percent fat/carb/protein calorie distribution as the 2.0 premixed version, but it also adds coffee flavoring, 150mg of caffeine per serving, and 75mg of the nootropic L-theanine. According to Rhinehart, a bottle of Coffiest supplies the drinker with about 400 kilocalories and about 20 percent of the daily recommended values for “all essential vitamins and minerals.” Soylent provided us with a copy of the drink’s nutritional information sheet for folks who want to take a peek.
“A lot of people are skipping breakfast,” Rhinehart told Ars in a phone interview. “We wanted to provide a convenient and also really tasty option for them to enjoy in the morning.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Soylent Coffee: Nootropics, fat, carbs, protein—but will it give you the toots?