Soylent probably isn&#x27;t absolutely perfect. But it could still be better than normal food. It&#x27;s not like normal food is optimized for nutrition, and we eat a ton of things that weren&#x27;t around when humans evolved. Or wildly different portions and amounts. Soylent at least tries to optimize. It doesn&#x27;t need to be perfect, it just needs to be better.<p>The only risk that keeps being brought up is that there is some obscure chemical that our bodies needs that soylent excludes. As long as you don&#x27;t go on a 100% Soylent diet, that risk can be avoided.<p>And this isn&#x27;t a new idea at all. There have been liquid foods before soylent, people in comas have been fed by IV even. We mass produce meals for animals like the article mentions. And people eating soylent don&#x27;t seem to be dying left and right. Young humans naturally live on an entirely liquid diet like to soylent, so it&#x27;s clearly possible.