I too felt like the standardised comment from the dietitian was a bit weak. We donāt really have the technology widely available to assess what nutrients we as individuals need specifically. I assume at home blood tests like Thriva etc attempt to do this somewhat though. I think that people can sometimes think their needs are a little more unique than they actually are. Huel provides what the standardised nutritional requirements say are optimal, anything extra you think you need then you can get it!
Thereās also this argument often stated that āwe donāt know everything about nutritionā. Well of course not, we donāt know everything about anything really, but we do the most we can with the provable science we have. You can bet your bottom dollar that if a large body of research is released about a nutrient that has significant benefit to the wider population, JC and his team will be looking into it (e.g. when we added the phytonutrient lycopene to v3.0)
Thought it was a very fair piece. Enjoyed very much!
Listened to this today on BBC sounds and found it a great listen. Id disagree on the not feeling full for lomg after having a huel shake. Ive always found ive stayed full after huel for 2-3 hrs after having one.
Nutritionalist was annoying. Noone has ever known ever if they were having the right amount of nutrients apart from athletes (although thats a relatuve new thing)
Luckily there are othe nutritionalists who are more positive.
I could say that they could have pointed out that Huel do advocate having healthy food as well and not just having a 100% huel shake diet
Thanks for the feedback. I think Huel came out looking pretty good, I was especially please with the comments by our research colleagues at Newcastle.
Despite this, I was disappointed. I was interviewed for about 45 mins and Greg and I had a great discussion. I gave a great response to the criticisms of processed food and satiety, including a notable mention of Hot & Savoury. However, my comments were significantly edited. Of course, they needed to be, but my key rebuttable about the criticisms of processed foods were missed. Lesson learned: I had a conversation like I was in a long-form podcast, whereas I should have been more succinct in my responses to allow for editing.
One thing it underlines for me is that we need to be doing more credible research on the product in human subjects.
Itās misleading when a producer feels the need to insist on (often) false equivalence regardless of the obvious facts in order to āgive both sides of the storyā. A right pita.
Yes to more research. Iād like to know the nutritional content of the average diet of the average person. Weigh that against Huel and I think itād be a slam dunk.
