The World Food Program has several nutrition foods. The problem tends not to be cost (which is already very low) but distribution and awareness.
One of the problems of Soylent is the need for water. About one billion people don't have access to clean drinking water. Problems with water cause very many infant deaths.
It's exciting seeing this get some awareness in tech culture. Maybe people can design and develop easier cheaper better methods of water purification or desalination; or cooking; or whatever.
You can imagine that the cost of the product from this huge NGO is going to have been driven down as far as possible.
> One of the problems of Soylent is the need for water. About one billion people don't have access to clean drinking water.
Why does Soylent need water? Could the same ingredients be prepared as a Soylent power bar?
That is a crowded product market, but Soylent might have an interesting pitch. A cashier at Trader Joe's told me that power bars were the store's best selling items.
One of the problems of Soylent is the need for water. About one billion people don't have access to clean drinking water. Problems with water cause very many infant deaths.
It's exciting seeing this get some awareness in tech culture. Maybe people can design and develop easier cheaper better methods of water purification or desalination; or cooking; or whatever.
You can imagine that the cost of the product from this huge NGO is going to have been driven down as far as possible.
https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/how-wfp-fights-malnutrition
http://www.irinnews.org/report/83124/malawi-cheaper-recipe-f...
https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...
Here's the WFP in a Syrian camp for refuges http://youtu.be/Ej0vAUsn_o8
About 1 in 8 people are chronically hungry https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/world-food-day-wfp-say...
Here's some nice feel good photos of children getting school meals. http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2013/j...