Final day. Honestly could have gone longer if it wasn’t for the stupid sugar this week, the rather bad tasting Macadamia nut oil, or the gastrointestinal duress of liquid coconut oil. I’m looking forward to going back to my preferred heavy cream and avocado oil mixture. These last 2 days I have had diarrhea, it might be from the sugar – or it could be that the stomach flu is making the rounds among my kids and if I’ve managed to NOT contract it, that would be a miracle (ever tried to convince a sick kid to clean up their own throwup? Isn’t happening, buddy).
I started adding the blood tests, graphs, and other assorted data to the page about this experiment. It’s looking pretty good so far!
I got the costs for Keto Chow 2.1 this morning and I’ve been having lots of fun with spreadsheets all morning. The short version is: prices on current flavors will be the same, the new flavors are slightly more expensive to make so those will be a bit more… except the “Natural Strawberry” that’s sweetened with monk fruit instead of sucralose. That one is significantly more expensive to make and will likely be priced at or above the price of the peanut butter.
On the monkfruit… In my experiments I found that it is just crazy powerful. I don’t know how the consumer-grade powder (https://smile.amazon.com/Smart138-Powder-Natural-Sweetener-Glycemic/dp/B0764Z8MD7/) which I bought on Axcho’s recommendation, compares to the industrial products you are talking about. But of that stuff, 1.1 gram is sufficient to sweeten 2L (2000kcal) of Soylent or Plain Super Fuel. So when you talk about buying it in 20kg lots, I translate that into sweetener for, what, about ~18,000 days of food?
Well, then, depending on how nice of a car you were thinking of, maybe that would be roughly $1 per day for sweetener, or $7 added on to a KetoChow “week” bag. Those cost ~$60, so more than 10% higher. (Less the cost of a few grams of sucralose which I assume is much less.) I think that is well-justified for use with a “natural” or “premium” flavor.