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One of Soylent's primary ingredients is sunflower oil, for which the world's largest producer is (drumroll please) Ukraine.

Guess who's #2, and under major international sanctioning? Between them, they're about 50% of worldwide production.




I assumed parent was referring to the Green variety. The primary ingredient is... abundant.


I have never been able to understand how Soylent has taken off given the name. And I haven't even watched the movie!


I'm looking at my bag of Soylent right now and sunflower oil is not a listed ingredient. Canola oil is the second ingredient. This is the powder.


You should probably avoid seed oils anyway.


Why? I’ve heard olive oil is pretty good.


Olive oil comes from the fruit of the olive.


Interesting. I didn’t know that.


This aversion to "seed oils" (a totally made-up, arbitrary category) is one of the weirdest health fads I've seen in recent years, and that's saying something.


We can probably up production here in North Dakota




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