A few times a week, I’m faced with a dilemma that is pretty much universal. I’m hungry, but I hardly have time to eat, much less buy something or prepare it. So I wolf down whatever is at hand, and no matter how hard I try to make it healthy, I rarely feel good about it.

That is the “pain point,” to use Silicon Valley parlance, that the latest iteration of Soylent, the meal replacement of choice for techies and early adopters, is trying to solve. And I am surprised to report that version 2.0 of Soylent—available since August...