You definitely belong in this topic “Some people just dont get it”
Lets go through it
Huel contains absolutely zero superfoods, if i told you i was eating rice , peas, oats and flax seed you would hardly go WOW youre eating all those superfoods!?!? Thats what huel is, just bog standard food
Mixing those items together non of which are super foods, most certainly does not make an ultimate super food
There is no team of nutritionists, just one
Again, there are no superfoods, so they didnt play fantasy football and select the best super foods
Again, not an ultimate super food
I shall advise Julian not to use your little rambling, but your effort is appreciated
Flaxseed is considered a superfood, and coconut is also by some people. The problem is, ‘superfood’ doesn’t have a particular definition, and so the EU has imposed limits on the way foods can be advertised as such without them coming with a health claim backed up by studies, so I’m inclined to agree with you that it wouldn’t be wise for Huel to advertise as such, even though there are some superfoods in Huel.
Coconut isnt in huel either, just the MCT powder. Also in such tiny quantities that it would require topping up by spending your own money and adding more to get a real world benefit
Flax seed is potentially a super food, so thats one single super food, not a collection of many as the poster thought. We also have no idea how much flax seed is even in huel as they wont say for some unknown reason
The reason i brought it up was because you popped up, quoted me and said “Oops” and attempted to make out like i was wrong in saying huel wasnt made by a team of nutritionists
Infact i was totally correct, huel was not made by a team of nutritionists and your link was redundant.
Given the fact Whole Fuel basically ripped off the Huel recipe in large part, this doesn’t surprise me. However, it’s very easy to work out how much flaxseed is in Huel based on the amount of omega 3 in the recipe.
I’m not going to give an exact figure, as omega 3 content varies from strain to strain, but there are roughly 5.9g of omega 3 per 25 grams of flaxseed, and 0.3g of omega 3 per 100 grams of oats as a rough approximation.
We know there aren’t isolated omega 3s added because these would either be spray dried with a carrier, or they would be oils. Huel have said the only omega 3 in Huel is ALA, so we can rule out fish oil or algal oil sprayed onto a carrier, and the lack of maltodextrin means there’s very few ways to make oil powders, and these would be on the ingredients list if there were. They could in theory use an ALA powder, but this would increase costs for no real gain.
Based on that and the presence of 14.4g of omega 3 per 2000kcal of Huel, as an approximation, we’re looking at 250g of oats (0.75g omega 3) and maybe 55g of flaxseed, though that may be a little lower depending on the particular strain of oats and the omega 3 content of stuff like the sunflower. Regardless, a window of 45-65g per day of flaxseed will likely contain the amount included, though it’s difficult to be more precise without more information.
Oh, well let’s take a look back at what you said then shall we…
To which I provided a link showing that there IS a team of nutritionists. I never said that the team of nutritionists CREATED Huel, just that there is now a team of nutritionists working with Huel to help improve it. I only pointed that out because I thought it was worth knowing.
Sometimes people need to point things out that other people don’t know. Don’t take it so personally. It’s not good for the morale of the discussion board. Haven’t you already been suspended once?
No, in fact you were incorrect. You said there was no team of nutritionists, when there IS a team of nutritionists. The comment I was responding to did not say Huel was CREATED by a team of nutritionists, just that there is no team of nutritionists, which there is.
Indeed archimedes let’s go through it and remind ourselves that the thread opener is about Marcus trying to convince his parents to try Huel.
I thought that this was in the spirit of getting normal people to try it rather than the kind of people who know how to use vi text editor, have wild hair, beards, white coats and biros sticking out their top pockets.
Your points would be valid in the talk section between editors of a wikipedia page, but if describing Huel as a super-food helps convince normal people to try it I don’t see how it’s a “ramble”.
The main issue with using the term for advertising purposes is EU law unfortunately.
“As of 2007, the marketing of products as “superfoods” is prohibited in the European Union unless accompanied by a specific authorized health claim supported by credible scientific research [7]”
The price is fine for me as someone who is replacing lunch with Huel. I never have time to make lunch for when i’m out the house (or at least, don’t make time). My lunch budget is £7. I don’t know whether that sounds like a lot or not much; but I find that’s enough to find healthy filling food. Often I go to a takeout salad place or a cafe. So £1.50 in comparison seems very cheap. Huel is saving me a lot of money.