This is the first time I have posted. I felt compelled to sign up just to say, this is a great product.
Now the huel range has a product high(ish) in fat (black), protein (complete protein) and carbs (essential).
Which means for people who like to have high carb days (work out days) and low carb higher fat days (rest days), or just like to have higher carbs in the hours around training, the range works really well. Essential huel was really the missing piece of the puzzle there.
The lack of flavours isn’t really an issue, as I suspect most people buying this will either be doing what I am doing, and using it along with other huel products (which already have plenty of variety), or will be price sensitive enough to prefer limiting the flavours to keep the cost down.
In a perfect world, I would happily pay the same as the black or v3.0 products to have a version of essential with “non-essential” elements, like the probiotics and phytonutrients, but I get why they are not added. No-one is sure how beneficial they really are, or in what quantity they are needed to get a measurable effect anyway!
I am now trying the chocolate HE. Although I’m not a great fan of the chocolate flavour it does make a great mocha with the addition of a teaspoon of instant coffee. Really loving this!
Thanks for your answers @epicure and @hunzas, I think I’ve read that you really liked Cookies & Cream, which I really disliked, so my concern is; this Chocolate Essential flavor relates to it? I don’t wanna risk it as it was hard for me to finish the C&C bag…
Hmm that’s difficult to answers because I think everyone interprets flavours differently. I think I’d say although it doesn’t really taste like cookies and cream, there is a slight biscuity taste - like an oaty biscuit so if that’s the part of the taste profile you dislike it may not be for you. I personally do really like c&c as you suggested.
Maybe see if @epicure has a similar or different angle to it (or anyone else) before making a purchase.
Not that this stage no, UU isn’t that popular compared to our other flavours[/quote]
Was UU as unpopular back then, when there were not so many flavours of white-bag-huel available? The unpopularity might not be there so much with only 2 other flavours in this range.
After cancelling the flavour boosts, people are left with flavour drops, chrunchy flavour etc. by other brands, which are very sweet, so they go better with UU than with the sweetened huels, me thinks.
and it requires more work to formulate than the flavoured products because it kind of sits on its own.
Does that mean that the receipt of 3.0. UU is a bit different than of the other 3.0s? No possibility to cover up unharmonic ingredients?
A general question to those who mix their flavoured 3.0s with UU 3.0 50:50 - Are the Essentials much sweeter than that?
Just noticed today that The Rowntree Foundation and the Trussell Trust have calculated an ‘essentials guarantee’ - a measure of living costs for a single adult in the UK. They suggest £37 per week for food for a single adult, as a bare minimum, ie set at ‘the more stringent and conservative end of the spectrum’.
It’s pretty amazing that at 2000kc per day Huel Essential actually undercuts that cost.
UU has always been one of the least favoured flavours. For most people it is an acquired taste and adding something else to Huel takes away some of the convenience.
Yes it’s a bit different and you’re right to keep UU, UU there’s no flavourings or sweeteners to work with the other ingredients.
The flavours also take up space so there’s more space in UU for the main ingredients. You can see this if you compare the nutritionals side-by-side as UU has slightly more fibre and less sugar than Vanilla.
Tried HE Chocolate yesterday. Tastes like a good chocolate bourbon biscuit. Not so much a meal replacement as a "how did I eat through that entire packet in one sitting??” replacement. Much more to my tastes than any of the white powders.
Tried HE Vanilla today. Couldn’t finish two scoops. It was nice at first. Creamy and malty. But it’s so sweet! It was like drinking a cheese cake. I like cheese cake. I don’t like 600g of cheese cake.
Going to try a scoop of each, but I suspect that’ll be a mistake. Don’t know until you try though!
Or maybe mix a single scoop nice and thick in a bowl like a pudding
Nah, not nearly as sweet as the white powders, but still too much for me. I don’t even like fruit juice!
Chocolate HE is sooo good. But I use it mostly when I travel for archery. For some reason drinking chocolate for breakfast and during practice just doesn’t feel right.
I could eat a 600g cheesecake, but not twice in a day… well, not twice in 6 hours… well, not without regret
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) but I agree it’s very creamy.
