Not necessarily. I don’t doubt they believe they can sell more bars in retail using the new recipe and I wish them good luck with that, but it’s possible they thought everybody would jump at the chance to ditch the old bars and replace them with the tastier chocolate covered delight so didn’t consider there to be a market to sell both. I believe there will be a huge percentage of regular old bar users who will not replace them with the new bars and will have to find an alternative.
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Is it possible that it’s just one production line and so the old bar had to be discontinued for the new one to arrive?
& yes maybe there are two distinct markets: a smaller one for dry high-calorie nutritious everyday outward-bound type bars, and a (potentially) much bigger one for gooey melty chocolatey lower-calorie nutritious tasty-treat bars.
It’s tough if Huel can’t provide for both, but understandable if they’re ambitious for a bigger slice of the mass-market where the nutrition/taste ratio is perhaps more balanced.
No, they are from different locations.
As much as anything, it maybe because the nutritional/intrinsic health value bar category (which I guess is where the new bars sit) growth last year was just about the strongest performer around the world – 50% more than breakfast/cereal snack bars and roughly double that of granola bars, while high protein bars continued to drop in most markets except Asia.
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I regularly bought the old bars but I have to say I like the new bars even better. Its just limiting myself and not having every day. 
Do they fill you up? Do you feel satisfied?
Hi @airiartev i had mine later in the evening. They certainly dont fill you up like having a shake but they are better than raiding the biscuit tin. 
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HI @amie_huel Is there any advisory on refrigeration of these bars? After a week in the fridge, I started to notice some change in them in the past couple of days, they have deteriorated pretty rapidly. The chocolate coating has bloomed very fast – I know that’s unavoidable when refrigerated, but it seemed to occur faster than I expected – and started splitting.
The interior also became quite brittle and crystalline – even though these changes don’t make them inedible, it has negatively. changed the taste experience a lot. I originally left them in their boxes but have now moved them to an airtight container (should have done that at the get go I guess.)
Not refrigerating them isn’t an option as I live in the tropics. And it’s the Summer 
What’s happened to the taste?
lost a significant chunk of it - that could partly be a sensory/perceptual thing linked to the texture change as well I guess
That’s not good though. Luckily for me unlikely to need to refrigerate here.
I tried the old bars and they were poor.
New ones are better but not for me.
Few changes made at huel recently which has reduced my order size. First time ordered from other companies for protein related stuff and knocked off white edition from order.
Not good. Black editions still top of the range for me so hope dont change that.
Got one of each to try this week (and of course, ones for the gf - still trying to get her onboard with Huel but nothing so far, even the can, has convinced her!). Looking forward to trying it.
It’s being reformulated.
What is black edition?
No one really knows.
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Dan mentioned in a post back in March they were working on the next Black Edition but hadn’t made any firm decisions on it at that time.
Tried the peanut one yesterday. Absolutely love it. Much more conventional feeling than the old bars. Just ends far too soon! Still too pricy and not a complete meal replacement so I can’t add it into my monthly order. But definitely enjoyed trying it
Neither were the old bars though. Huel has settled on 400kcal for a meal and 200kcal for a snack, which I think is about right myself, and I used to eat 2 bars for my lunch. I don’t really understand why they’ve now gone as low as 180kcal for the bar. It’s not enough IMO, and ~50kcal less than a Grenade bar.
That’s true. I suppose it’s just not for me. For a snack I’d want to be able to afford loads but they’re pretty premium priced. Can buy a whole pack of biscuits (alright, far from nutritions) for the price of one bar.
I know the quality and nutrition that goes into these will come at a premium cost.
It’s just a shame as I’ll never be able to justify the expensive to consume these at the rate I’d consume the junk food alternatives 
Heads-up for anyone whose definition of ‘vegan’ includes ‘not containing animal products’: the new Complete Nutrition Bars are labelled as ‘May contain milk, egg’.