Well I am glad to hear that they are not the sole market in this area and I already knew this although I had not heard about Bulk and MyProtein having similar products.
What I did refer to though is that Huel has monopoly on the premium and the best meal replacement meal. Meaning that they do not opt for inferior ingredients, are by far the largest regarding customers and this niche and always stay up-to-date to it.
This is exactly why I want Huel to be the one to produce such a product as I do not trust other companies with my health enough to develop such a product.
I am happy that they do and that is exactly why I am here.
This is not something I agree with. Domesticated animals often are inferior health and resilience wise due to poor breeding practices. Even in the 20th century they kept inbreeding(incest) dog breeds in order to preserve a look or get traits even traits that are unhealthy and harmful. Think about shorter snouts, shorter legs, back problem due to wanting a lower hind leg to front ratio.
Inbreeding caused a lot of hereditary problems so taking dogs as a sample group is bad since most dog breeds are not healthy to begin with.
As you can see you too have improperly read my first post. It is not necessarily about kibbles, I mostly referred to non-liquid food types like kibbles. Why kibbles? Because they also claim to be a nutritionally complete meal, so it is meant as an analogy. In order to give the Huel team an idea of what type of product we want as a lot of people want a solid food on here that does not break the bank.
I am going to share a link on here on why kibble is considered a bad food source and I am going to try and show how this can be solved.
Yes, Kibble is Bad for Your Dog: 7 Issues with Dry Pet Food | Raw Bistro.
- Feed Grade Ingredients
"What’s alarming is that pet feeds that are allowed to contain diseased animal material and meat ingredients sourced from non-slaughtered animals - with no disclosure requirement.
The FDA says, “Processed pet food, including pet food consisting of material from diseased animals or animals which have died otherwise than by slaughter, goes through high heat processing, which is designed to kill harmful bacteria…”
Rendering is one of the processing methods of sanitizing otherwise putrid, inedible animal by-products and animal waste. Many ingredients in pet food today are from rendering plants.
Consuming these highly processed ingredients leads to other issues:"
- My response - Often you see ingredients used in pet food not being human grade and not hold to the same standards as human food products when can be solved by using Human grade ingredients and avoiding these processes that cause loss of nutrition. Or like how Huel cooks their H&S and still ensures a high nutrition value.
- Highly Processed Ingredients
"Many of the nutrients in kibble are lost during the high-heat process, so flavor enhancers and synthetic nutrients are added to replace what has been lost.
Different types of acrylamide and other carcinogens are created in this process that could be detrimental to your dog’s long-term health."
- Again this can be avoided by not using those ingredients and opting for a different method of processing the food which I will come to later on.
- High-Starch Carbohydrate Content
- Can be solved by having the same great nutritional value as the rest of their products.
- Low Moisture
Like I said it does not have to be the exact same product. Huel can innovate a new product that negates these negetive side-effects like their Huel bar but is in the same price range as the powder 3.0 and black edition. Many people already microwave their bar for a few second up to 30 seconds. So why wouldn’t we be able to add a bit of water at home to make not super dry the same way you add water to almost all Huel products?
Etc.
Now, you would ask what type of kibble or pellet is actually good quality and would I use as a prime example.
HARRISON’S BIRD FOODS
Let me explain why: Pet birds have not gone through the thousands of years of bad breeding practices of humans and are still identical or almost identical in genetic make-up to their congeners in the wild. Hence they are very healthy and mostly free from inbreeding.
Have a quick read at how they are made and you can see their website yourselves.
EXTRUSION NOT PELLETIZATION
The Harrison’s Bird Foods nuggets in the Coarse, Fine and Superfine products are made by a low temperature extrusion process. This differs to many other products on the market which are ‘cold pressed’ or ‘pelletized’ rather than extruded.
This method of manufacture:
Produces a food with increased digestibility
Preserves the ingredients’ natural flavours and enzymes which can be lost in a pelletization process
Destroys microtoxins and digestion inhibitors
Does not degrade vitamins
Prolongs storage without the need for artificial/chemical preservatives
This process leads to a more natural product than some methods, and therefore there is some variation in sizes and colour of piece.
This high-quality production process is also one of the reasons (another being the use of human-grade, organic certified ingredients) why the Harrison’s range is a little more expensive than other formulated foods. You are paying for quality at every step of the process, to provide a better product, for the optimal health and enjoyment of your bird.
