Great news! Looking forward to seeing some reviews of the updated formula.
Bone powder? Thatâs an odd suggestion. Didnât that fall out of favour decades ago? Any addition of animal products would affect huelâs sales as it would stop it being vegan.
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Why not add some bone powder to the mix to get enough good calcium? We need around 1500 mg per day depending on body weightâŚ
I missed this comment. Of course, that would not work because itâs not vegan
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Semantic versioning:
There are some other threads on this topic in the forum. Basically Huel donât use a proper version numbering system at all and donât intend to change to one. Thereâs single point releases, but following those numbers is mostly useless as thereâs a batch number as well and at arbitrary points between batches there are recipe changes.
My personal opinion is that if you are going to break the version numbering system, then use one properly. In the case of Huel it just seems to be for branding purposes. If someone in the software industry did what Huel is doing theyâd be slammed hard by their customers, as itâs totally unacceptable to not update version numbers between software releases.
This problem affects some of Huelâs competitors as well. It makes zero sense to me and is ultra confusing.
Hi guys - Iâm really sorry that youâre unhappy with our version numbering system. As a nutritionist, my primary goal is making better products. I will speak to my colleagues about this to see if itâs possible as some of you seem to be finding it confusing. We hoped that our version summary would iron out the possible confusions.
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Couldnât you at least call it v2.21 so that people can distinguish between versions.
Also your not a software company, so why are there version numbers⌠do other food companies (none soylent do it?).
Good work though, I hope it wootks
Out and is smoother.
Whilst I donât think the versioning has been that bad so far, there is always room for improvement so itâs a good thing if the team are going to look at updating the way the versioning works 
I have to say I agree with Ryan but then I was a programmer too. Logic &
reason rule. Trying to find the reasoning behind your system is, well,
impossible. A readily available history of the product & a bagâs version
number should be enough information to infer the contents.
TBH it might not seem important to normals but a lot of your customers are
quite weird; what can I say? 
Iâll certainly raise it with the team. I personally think that it could just confuse some people. Clearly you all think in this logical way with version numbers but many do not. By updating our version history we get the benefit of not confusing many and you can all stay updated too.
We only change the âversion numberâ when we feel there has been a significant change. Changing the source of one micronutrient to another isnât a large change so we didnât feel we needed to update the version number.
Most food products are based around taste, once they hit the perfect taste many companies stop adjusting. Didnât Coca Cola roll back when they updated the formula because it got such a bad reaction? Whereas weâre constantly looking to improve the nutrition of Huel so that each version is nutritionally better than the former. The version numbering I guess highlights our want to keep improving. Clearly not all changes are nutritional, some are for organoleptic purposes, but in general we change Huel to make it more and more nutritious.
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Received my dispatch notification today for my recurring order, but the product in the email states âv.2.2 (old)â
Was really eager to try the improved version without the lumps as so far Iâve always had to blend each meal which takes some of the convenience factor away. Would be awesome to be able to simply shake and drink.
Anyone else end up getting the new version despite being told it was the old?
You will get the latest version. Iâll find out why your order said [old], as it definitely shouldnât. I guarantee you will receive the version with the tweaks highlighted in this thread.
Reassuring to know, many thanks for that.
Also feel it worth pointing out that the courier link in the email seems to contain an old, completed order from May 2017. Not sure whatâs happened there.
Hmmm - got v2.2(old) at home and v2.2(new) in the office. After taste testing to compare, I think I prefer the mouth feel of v2.2(old). v2.2(new) is definitely a little bit âchalkierâ and less smooth on the palette.
And whilst there were lumps in v2.2(old) from time to time, they were soft textured and broke up with additional shaking (or indeed were quite nice in a cookie dough kind of way), v2.2(new) has more, smaller drier textured lumps that arenât half as pleasant when you encounter themâŚ
I think on balance v2.2(old) is the better formulation. Without wishing to set off any sort of war, I do hope weâll get back to the calcium citrate in a future formula. 
No problems with lumps in my v2.2(new) anyway. Going from 2.1 seems very smooth (yes, pun intended).
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I was starting to like the lumps! but to me 2.2(new) tastes fine. The texture is slightly different, in a good way.
Does this apply to the US version as well? I noticed that my bag I ordered 4 months ago, and the bag I ordered on 2 Oct both list calcium carbonate.
my order done today: Huel (Original) the UKâs leading nutritionally complete food v2.2 [OLD]
why is the old version?
(not complaining just asking)
No, the US formula is different and has had since launch calcium carbonate
Very happy with these changes @JamesCollier - especially the lower iron content and addressing the lump issue. Good to see a company actually listening to customer feedback and doing something about it. Huel is such an admirable company in lots of way.
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Why the high calcium rate in the first place? There is enough data out there now that clearly indicates that the RDA is ill conceived and that there are no benefits from this level of supplementation.