Spotted Huel on the GCN YouTube channel. They really don’t think much of it so they?
So is it classed as ultra processed? Seems to go against what Huel markets it as.
At about 6 minutes and 7:15
No thanks.
Depends on how you choose to skew or interpret the term ultra-processed. It’s ultra-processed in the same way a pot of Whole Foods Organic Fresh Soup is ultra-processed.
The but that got me was when he said I bet you don’t have these in your cupboard, and I mostly do, apart from the things like xanthum gum which I believe is just a thickener.
Doesn’t the ready to drink have a few extra ingredients compared to the powders?
I’ve always been mostly happy with Huel ingredients.
they are roughly similar overall and the ingredients are all on the product pages. The RTD’s use Gellan gum instead of Xanthum - Gellan grows naturally in water but is usually commercially produced by fermenting sugar with bacteria. As you say, both act as thickeners or to bind and stabilise food.
See him mispronounce pantothenic acid like it’s an undesirable chemical additive.
and “biotin, bloody hell”. 
Another recent dig at Huel in the media, and in passing, here:
The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race | Women | The Guardian
All around me I see overwork. Top editors who freelance at the weekends, small business owners who don’t have time to unpack the boxes in the homes they moved into three years ago, self-proclaimed cogs in corporate machines who drink Huel at their desks because they have no time to eat.
Lost me when he said “is it in plastic packaging” about a drink, and then proceeded to list a bunch of totally normal ingredients.
I hope he doesn’t ever see this from James Kennedy
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so, basically it is to health advice what 5 Minute Crafts is to health & safety? 
Do Huel ever respond to things like this, if they’re so factually incorrect?
Not usually, and they’re probably right not to do so. First they’d have to watch every YouTube dipstick video in full so they can give an accurate response. These videos are rarely worth the time. Then, because YouTube is driven by engagement rather than accuracy, the YouTubers would make HUEL FIGHTS BACK videos, fishing for more clicks. And if Huel don’t respond to that, they’ll be seen as conceding the point. Better to rise above the whole thing.
Huel have responded to the “ultra-processed=always bad” generalisation a few times, so maybe they should paste that into every thread like this just to draw a line under it.
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