Reddit Reddit reviews Ensure Original Nutrition Powder with 9g of Protein Per Serving, Vanilla, 14 ounces

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Ensure Original Nutrition Powder with 9g of Protein Per Serving, Vanilla, 14 ounces
COMPLETE NUTRITION: Each serving of Ensure Original Powder has 250 calories and 9 grams of high- quality protein, to provide you with complete nutrition at just over $1 per servingGREAT TASTE: It's a great tasting way to get protein and antioxidants (Vitamins C, E & Selenium) every day from the #1 doctor recommended brandSuitable for lactose intolerance and gluten-free (Not for people with galactosemia)DAILY USE: 1-2 servings recommended dailyEligible to be purchased with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefitsEligible to be purchased with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefitsIn select stores;The SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assurance Program) name is a service mark of the U.S. Department of Agriculture;USDA does not endorse any goods, services, or enterprises
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2 Reddit comments about Ensure Original Nutrition Powder with 9g of Protein Per Serving, Vanilla, 14 ounces:

u/Bacchus_Embezzler · 23 pointsr/soylent

Ensure has a few different products, so my assessment may be wrong in some places. If so, please point it out. I'll primarily base this product as representing Ensure. Here are a few thoughts:

  1. Cost - the above product is $13 for 7 servings. Sounds reasonable, until you realize 1 serving has 250 Cal. To meet the rec'd 2000 Cal, you'd have to have the entire tub + a bit more. The liquid 16 pack on amazon actually looks a bit cheaper at around $10 a day (not including shipping) if we're considering just meeting calorie needs. Soylent is supposed to cost just a few dollars a day. We'll see if that's the case when it is released, but there are definitely recipes out there that come in well under $10 a day. Ensure plus seems to come close under $10 a day, but is still something like double what Rob claims the final product will cost.
  2. 100% daily needs really means 100% - Ensure claims it is "balanced" but going off the above calculation (8 servings a day for 2000 Cal) you'd have x8 on all nutrients. Just take a look at Ensure's nutrition information, and you'll see that the majority of nutrients multiplied x8 come in well over 100% or well under. There's zero fiber. Not enough potassium. Too much of most of the vitamins. Soylent is meant to be a scientifically formulated product that has the recommended amount of everything, and were there is a lack of information on a nutrient, a well researched and informed amount.
  3. Ingredients - The primary ingredient in regular Ensure is corn syrup, which may be tastier than oat powder or maltodextrin, but isn't as good for you. The primary oil is corn oil, which also isn't as good for you as olive oil.
  4. Underlying idea - Soylent is meant to replace meals if someone wants to use it that way (I personally don't, but I'd like to have some for the option of an easy breakfast or lunch if I'm feeling lazy). Ensure is meant to be a supplement or stop gap between diets. You may scoff at this, but that means there is a diy and self-experimental community around the product which aims to make it better and helps keep members safe. Without a doubt, there will be someone more committed to their soylent diet than you. If they run into problems with it, or come up with solutions, they're likely to share them on reddit or on other forums. The community can also answer questions, as I'm doing for you, and upvote/downvote/reply as they see fit. If you called Abbott laboratories up with this question I'd doubt you'd get satisfactory answers.

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u/gizram84 · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

I just did a little price comparison.

Soylent is $70 a month for 7 bags. Each bag is 444g. That's a cost of 2.25 cents a gram.

Ensure powder is $8.99 for a 397 gram package. That's 2.26 cents a gram.

I'm extremely surprised that the price is almost identical.

Now, I'm sure you can get a bulk discount on ensure, but I think there are cheaper payment plans for Soylent too.

All very interesting nonetheless.