“Smaken zijn echt slecht. Bij het maken van de shakes lost het poeder heel moeilijk op. De repen smaken heel zout. De melkdrankjes vallen nog mee, maar er bestaan betere...”
“So here's a company that takes the interesting/great idea of Soylent Green, and made it plant-based and 'eco'. Love it! Love that you can immediatly get started with the shaker, and the possibility to try out various flavours and the 3 forms it comes in. Mind you, they give a selection of the possible flavours, not all.
The only thing that has me head-scratching (aside from the odd English language errors in the copywriting that are familiar to me, as a Dutch-speaker) are some of the design choices they've made.
For example, the shake powder and the bar have 26 essential vitamins and nutrients, but the drink has 27. It's the only one that has fluoride, and it's at half the ratio of the other nutrients. I guess because you get some from your toothpaste, but it's inclusion/exclusion in the others isn't explained anywhere.
Or the caramel sea salt bar (which is yummy but too salty): for every ingredient the recommended daily intake is referenced, but not for salt here, while the recommended salt level intake is mentioned on the other products. Because it's a bit higher than recommended levels, and if you survived a day on just those bars you'd be ..overly salty?
But my main problem is with the design philosophy of making sure every 'portion' provides 20% of your calories and exactly 20% of the recommended daily intake of vits/mins. A lot of those daily recommended intakes, although based in science, are the absolute *minimum* recommended.
It also means that when I surive a day mostly on Jimmy shakes, and then take just part of my calories from something unhealthy, then by definition I'll be deficient in my vits and mins (whereas a meal with say broccoli or kale will compensate majorly for a lot of nutrients I might have missed by eating a piece of white toast for example).
Lastly, their calculated 'this is how little a Jimmy Joy meal costs!' is overly generous, as it's based on people with low daily intakes.”
