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Soylent Ships Reformulated Powder Mix After Illnesses
The food-tech startup begins selling a version of its meal-replacement powder without algal flour, an ingredient it believes made people sick.
Potassium gluconate on a production table at the Soylent corporate office in Oakland, California.
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Soylent said it began shipping an updated version of its meal-replacement powder after a string of complaints that the previous formula was making people sick.
Rosa Foods Inc., the Los Angeles maker of Soylent, said the new powder mix no longer contains algal flour. The company believes the algae-based ingredient was causing stomach issues reported by customers, Bloomberg reported last month. "With these changes, our team believes we have responded to the issues a small number of community members experienced," Soylent wrote in a blog post.