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Uhhh.. PediaLyte and Ensure are vastly different products. Ensure is a weight gain meal replacement drink and PediaLyte is fancy gatorade.

Soylent is somewhere between Slimfast and Ensure. I'm not positive there's a quality calorically balanced meal replacement drink out there? Maybe there is, but whatever that is, Soylent is the branded version of that. Not PediaLyte or Ensure.

I think it misrepresents Soylent to claim it’s essentially a repackaged Pedialyte/Ensure - it had a very, very different product development process and it ostensibly has different goals.

PediaLyte and Ensure had far more sugar pre-Soylent