Only if you have two doses instead of one. Otherwise the sugar content is just the same, only in a smaller quantity of powder.
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I don’t post often here as have been pretty happy with my Huel journey over the last 5 years (I’m nearly a Goldie…) and have regular subscriptions to HB, H&S, Bars and protein (and I have 4 pairs of Huel jeans!)
I’ve been using DG since launch day and have been very pleased with it so these changes so shortly after launch are of concern.
I’ve not been aware of any other product being reformulated so shortly following launch - can’t help thinking that this was a fait accompli decided ages ago and this feels a bit “bait and switch” to me.
I’ve not had a user survey or been asked for feedback (despite being a super user!) which some of the other subscription companies I use regularly do.
Not the trajectory I’d expected for the product.
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I felt the same. but then considered that daily greens has actually been around for quite a while in the states before launching here and is in fact manufactured in the US, so assuming the change is happening both sides of the pond and production isn’t moving from the states it isn’t such a quick switch as it first appears.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with the current version
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Agree; no problem with the current version in both taste and “sediment”. I don’t bother shaking for the recommended 10 seconds either.
Most recently I’ve been adding 5g creatine powder to mine for convenience during my breakfast rush - hasn’t increased sediment - still suspended in under 200mL H2O.
It mixes with little effort and I prefer much less water than recommended. 150ml is about right and it makes it taste creamier and weirdly less strong tasting than 250ml…
Not tried it with creatine however.
As a vegan that works longs days and don’t have time to make healthy meals most of the week, I’m disappointed in the reduction of fibre, choline and Iron.
I’m getting less for the same amount of money.
I’m considering cancelling my subscription.
Pure hyperbole.
This is what you just said: “Because company 1 improved their product’s taste, packaging and serving size while reducing unnecessary ingredients that have almost zero impact on the main nutritional content and entire purpose of the product, I am now going to spend double my money at company 2 for their inferior product.”
Riiight… like that makes any sense, at all.
Shannan, and those who liked their post, are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that when you signed up to Daily Greens, you did so because you absolutely wanted it for the inulin, oats, flaxseed and tapioca?
Didn’t think so. The 4 ingredients reduced have absolutely nothing to do with the entire purpose of the product, and if you signed up for a greens powder to get some oat and tapioca granules every morning, then perhaps make smarter decisions. Do you also buy Oreos to up your folate levels? Maybe some glazed doughnuts for omega-3?
Once again, fantastic job at demonstrating how poor your decision-making is, or just trolling. Basing your entire understanding of nutrition, dietary preferences and product interest/value on how much it weighs?
You chose to purchase Daily Greens not because of the:
- Organic antioxidant greens blend
- Superfoods
- Adaptogens
- Plant-based protein
- Super mushrooms
- Gut-friendly probiotics
But because…
- It weighs 15g and has a little inulin, oats, flaxseed and tapioca?
And you’d have been utterly thrilled if it was the other way around, with Daily Greens released originally as 8.5g, but then bulked up to 15g with ingredients that are completely unrelated to the product’s purpose while having a rougher texture in unnecessarily larger portions and larger bags?
No? Right. You bought Daily Greens for the above listed nutritional elements. Since when is making a quick daily greens supplement more compact to store and easier to prep while having almost zero difference, literally trace nutritional difference for the core purpose of the entire product, a bad thing? Not including the smoother texture if that turns out to be spot on too.
For crystal clarity:
- You bought a greens powder for all the superfoods, antioxidants, adaptogens, probiotics, etc.
- The only material difference is a smaller pack to store, you have less to put in the bottle each morning, and the texture is now smoother.
- Everything else is almost identical to before with no impact to your body, life or original purchase decision.
- Nothing to cry about.
I doubt the 0.5mcg less of molybdenum will be keeping you up at night.
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Genuinely, what trajectory would have satisfied you? A company releases a product, listens to feedback immediately, rapidly invests in R&D, conducts tests, then formulates a better product that’s more concise and smoother, and this is a negative thing? Would you have preferred they not care, take their time and maybe improve it a year from now?
A person or company acts quickly: it’s a bait and switch, concerning, etc. They act slowly: it’s laziness, not listening, etc. How can anyone win with complaining either way? I fail to see how a company intently listening, funding, refining and improving their products quickly is somehow bad.
There were a bunch of posts on this forum about the consistency, with myself and others deliberately using less water to improve the smoothness/drinkability/texture, so this sounds like a great change to me. I’ll reserve judgement for when I try it.
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this is true and ALL food companies change their formulations all the time - but rarely tell you about it. Its important to understand too that while it maybe new in Europe, the greens product has been out over a year, so that is a reasonable amount of time to collate and act on customer feedback.
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As someone who also is vegan, works long days and lacks time to make healthy meals most of the week, I buy the Huel products that are actually meals.
If you want healthy meals with a focus on fibre, choline and iron, why are you buying Daily Greens? Troll harder. This is not a Huel problem. It’s a you problem.
If you are seriously crying over things like getting 2.5g of fibre less from a daily one-off GREENS powder each morning, where it’s clearly not even the purpose of the product, perhaps use logic when spending money. But considering how many of these posts coming out of the woodwork all follow similar patterns of illogical dissection leading to the ‘oooo i’M gOnNa cAnCel mY SuBscRiPTiOn’ line, I doubt most of these have even ordered it before.
Some of these posts feel way too much like a targeted campaign. I’d love to see the data behind these account creations.
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Hex, you seem very defensive of huel and that’s super, I’m glad for you. However people are allowed their opinions and no matter how you try to spin the changes, and no matter how much you insult their intelligence with your condescending remarks just because their opinion and observations does not match yours, the fact remains that daily greens users are getting less for their money and ingredients have been reduced.
Thanks for replying like an immature child.
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I don’t buy huel’s other products because of the source of the vitamins. I don’t want to take synthetic vitamins as personal preference.
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I pointed out fibre as part of the overall changes.
If you look at the reduction of iron , it’s a 7% reduction in RDA. Now you have to consider the bioavailability absorption, with greens powders this can be between 30-70%.
Also to mention, between old and new products are the following:
Vitamin A - 3% reduction
Calcium - 4% reduction
Molybdenum - 6 % reduction
Choline - 78% reduction
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The purpose of taking daily greens is to support my nutritional needs. And eat the best I can at work but we don’t even have staff room or kitchen to have proper meals. I like how you extract my purpose for taking DG from one small comment and then type alternate cap size for added childish reply.
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In the normal world, if your are getting less for your money, why would you continue to pay? Your want people to continue paying for a lesser product? And you think this is a targeted campaign? Get out of here.
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Hilarious to me that you are the biggest troll on this page but accuse others of it. Also funny that you have imagined a conspiracy about people not wanting changes to a product that they were already enjoying as being a targeted campaign against the product.
Perhaps you are a targeted campaign to discredit those with concerns. More likely, you are just an unpleasant person with nothing better to do.
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Wow, some folks here are really triggered. 
Opinions may differ but honestly - get a grip. Or maybe the mods will.
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I think Hex makes some very good points, he delivery was quite strong but I think the tone was mirroring what the original posters were giving out
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Thanks to the comments, I looked at alternatives I either need to take 3-4 powders to get as much as DG gives or the single powder (I only found 1) costs nearly double what DG costs.
I think on paper DG’s a great product. I hope it gives my body the boost I’m looking for
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I agree with you @himji. As the case for the defence, or from a defence witness if you like, Hex makes a strong and well-argued case. Sharp tone, for sure, but notwithstanding that, well-put.
There’s a lot of rushing to judgement here, but the real evidence will be the trying and tasting of the product, and that’s all yet to come.
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Calling out BS doesn’t make someone “very defensive”.
The fact remains that buying a greens powder to obtain inulin, oats, flaxseed and tapioca, is like buying Oreos for folate. Every ingredient in a product is not there to serve only nutritional value – some for texture, taste, binding, etc. These 4 ingredients have absolutely zero relation to the product’s purpose and your original purchase decision. Therefore, try the product first, rather than making a huge dramatic deal out of small things unnecessarily, particularly one where they have literally listened directly to people’s feedback on this forum and quickly refined it to fix the consistency problem.
Regarding the other 2 posters, interesting how the replies all came at:
08:11
08:14
08:16
Log out, log in, log out, log in, log out, log in? 
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Hey @Glocky78
If I stated that you’re wrong and that this absolutely isn’t a cost saving exercise - which is the case - would you believe me?
A couple of things in response:
- We have contracts for these ingredients and, with due respect, you don’t know our pricing agreements
- Even on the previous recipe, these are all the cheaper ingredients because we use them in huge quantities in other Huel products. Their impact on cost is tiny.
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@JamesCollier Thanks for listening to the feedback about Daily Greens! I’m sure it’s an impossible job to please everyone, however the quick refinement is positively surprising and most appreciated.
When DG was released, myself and others mentioned how using less water made the drink better (less granule taste, more thick essentially), so this is great news.
Look forward to trying out the new consistency! Thank you.
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