Doesn’t stop me recommending Huel as a brand to friends of course, there’s a fair amount of people rocking your t-shirts because of me 
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The website is perfectly fine, what in particular do you dispute in the article? Im sure it wont be hard to find evidence for everything there.
What are the processes you have in place ?
If you dont select any old supplier, why have you gone all the way to China ? That just screams, cheapest first. Clealy you dont need to go to China for all your powders, so why? Why from a country notorious for putting health and safety dead last
Why wouldnt you update the website with the latest certificates ? Whats the point in having certificates on the website for a batch of product that was used years ago ? That is totally useless, they should be always the newest and latest certificates. Its hardly and arduous tasl upload a certificate is it ?
Relating to the topic, it was not a case of you had the certificates but just hadnt updated the website. You didnt have any certificates and wasnt even aware they had expired. Some many years old. It only came to your attention when forum members mentioned it. Then you guys realised you hadnt done any batch tests in years and had to send your samples off to be tested and then a few weeks later posted the results.
Evidently youre not batch testing your product. Baring in mind its coming in from China id say this should be a high priority.
Of course huel contains a multivitamin ?
it states right there that they add in a synthetic mixture of vitamins and minerals, thats what a multivitamin is …
What do you mean “if i feel” huel is highly processed. Explain how the ingredients in huel are not highly procesed ?
So whats the problem ?
I pose a question to the worlds foremost fountain of knowledge that contains almost every bit of knowledge known to man
The results of the question, from many many sources, are that buying from China is certainly not advisable due to a multitude of reasons
and “ryan” has a problem with that ?
Trying to claim it isnt science just because it isnt the exact document from a scientific piece of literature is dumb. How do you think all these discoveries were made about the terrible quality of things coming out of China ? The problems were uncovered because scientists tested them
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Just having a bit of fun, sorry mate. In all seriousness though, most of the foods I buy at the supermarket (especially processed ones like ready meals) don’t list where they get all their ingredients from, and I don’t ask. Is it typical for a company to give you a list of everything that went into making their product and why? Does Tesco scientifically assess all their products for suitability for consumption? I think not.
It’s easy to forget, Huel is just food, made my by some “chefs” (stretching the definition), and bought by you for a tasty convenient meal. If you don’t trust it, don’t buy it.
Ingredients that come from china, i don’t see that as a problem, nutrition wise (environement is an other topic). Huel is far to be the only firm that does this and as law don’t oblige you to tell your customer from were the food you sell comes from, almost nobody is aware of that. So, no bad nor good point for Huel here.
Ultra (way too much) processed food is, conterwise, a concern but… let’s be fair and intelligent : when you buy powder food, you know, that it is all but natural and unprocessed… The one who buys huel with the idea he is gonna eat something natural and unprocessed etc. is just -sorry for that- stupid.
The fact Huel is a food in the state of powder is why it would never ever be used massively by people, why you would never find this in a school, why so many people tell you “what the hell are you drinking?”, “are you sure you are ok? you are drinking powder instead of eating like everybody”, “you should speak to someone”, etc.
People fear more and more processed food. Huel is the opposit of the natural organic food more and more people try to find.
To my opinion, when you buy huel, you know what you are doing. You buy super overprocessed food that aims at beeing near to perfect regarding what the science currently knows about food/nutrition, whatever the “cost” is (cost beeing: eating overprocessed food, eating ingredients coming from china, india, beleiving in what a company says, etc.).
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To my opinion, when you buy huel, you know what you are doing.
[/quote]. I agree, I’m very happy with the transparency around the ingredients etc. If Huel has made a decision on ingredients/packaging etc I trust that’s its based on a well considered and balanced thought process.
Yeah, come on guys this is why we voted for Brexit FFS! No more China powders in this great nation!!!1!
Don’t tempt me!
That is the problem, the filthy environment that they are grown in and that directly affects nutrition, not to mention god knows what they are getting sprayed with
Yeah but they want to be a synonym of food. They always say huel is food. Almost all food tells you where it comes from, go buy any meat and it will tell you where it come from, most food packets tell you where something is from. That is just food, so when huel comes along as a premium health product, then it should surely tell you where the ingredients are sourced, as that will help you determine if it is in indeed healthy
Which is my next point. So so far we have the bulk of ingredients cheaply sourced from China, and we know its all highly processed so how can this be determined to be a great health food product ?
Ive seen it stated multiple times by the huel employees that huel is far superior to a meal deal but have yet to see a single thing that shows it is in any way better
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I, for one, feel so much healthier since starting on Huel.
How much huel do you use ?
A lot of that is psychological, being brainwashed by the huel advert of the glass of vibrant nutritional goodness, when the reality is its a bunch of cheap, mainly chinese powders all highly processed together and bagged up
I always laugh when someone comes and posts they have been on huel for 2 days now and feel absolutely amazing lol
If someone said their diet was processed pea powder, processed oat powder, processed flax seeds, processed brown rice from China and a multivitamin a day im sure no one would be singing how great it is. Thats all huel is
Two, sometimes three meals per day is Huel. As of last October.
Not at all, I can assure you.
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Judging by your other comments on previous posts, you never seem to have anything good to say about Huel which is a real shame to be honest.
I’ve never had a problem with the product or the company and respect the Huel team for everything they have done to resolve any issue I have had.
If you don’t like Huel then maybe there isn’t much point in coming back to this forum. I’m a regular lurker and find it quite upsetting to see a disruption in the friendly atmosphere throughout the forum and I’m sure others agree. Make of that what you will.
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Yes, this guy comes across just like an old forum poster who went by the name of Archimedes. he even talks about the same stuff…
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Thanks everyone for your comments.
I don’t want to close this thread but please try and keep everything civil and if you have questions feel free to post them it’s why we are here.
If anyone is interested in the discussion and has some concerns let me put the previous links and a few more to provide some more detail.
Some of the quality controls including pesticides tests are here.
Comparison of Huel RTD vs a BLT sandwich is here you could also make the argument the Huel powders have a more favourable nutritional composition.
How Huel is produced is here.
You can find all our articles on the nutrition of Huel and why it is the way that it is here with independent and peer reviewed references at the bottom.
Because it’s good to have these sort of discussion I will throw some questions out there, please try and answer with legit sources rather than the bias websites which pop up on google first with inaccurate information e.g. Mercola.
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Huel is processed, but nutritionally why is this bad? Processing creates a convenient product with minimal food waste due to the long shelf-life.
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Some of the ingredients come from China, we have quality and safety controls in place, so why is this a concern? Think about the horsemeat scandal that occurred a few years ago in Europe, generalising the perception of a whole country when there is evidence to the contrary (in the case of Huel) isn’t helpful.
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Why is all processing bad?
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If a food is processed less than another, why does that that automatically make it healthier?
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Why is natural or organic food better? How are you defining “better”?
Play nice everyone!
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I’ve been having Huel to replace one or two meals per day for 14 months now. I’ve hit my perfect weight (perfect as in the weight I feel most at home with), I never get sick (not so much as a cold), have bags of energy (to the point where my activity trackers show way more now than they did a year ago). Plus, I recently had a comprehensive health check and everything came back ‘perfect’ - and that’s a quote from the letter I got from the doctor.
I guess brainwashing is a thing, but it’s kinda disrespectful (not to mention wrong) to suggest that the folk at Huel have somehow brainwashed me / us. Besides, I started using it on the recommendation of a friend, and I’ve yet to see a Huel advert.
And speaking of disrespectful, what is it with you and China? Did you get punched by a Chinese kid when you were at school, by any chance? As @Dan_Huel points out, you can’t make a few lazy generalisations about a nation of 1.5 billion people and not expect that to go unchallenged.
Finally, @Lpjfitz is right - this is a forum for people who are engaged with the product, who respect the team, and who are here to support one another in whatever nutritional path they are on. You’re free to rant against Huel, against China, against oats or whatever - just don’t do it here. Please.
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You cant really attribute any of that to huel when youre taking in between 400 and 800 calories a day of it. Thats a small amount
Brainwashing is advertising.
You havent seen a huel advert ? Go and look on FB instagram, huels website etc. All you need to see is “complete nutrition” ( in their opinion) and the vibrant cup of items which arent actually in huel to be brainwashed into thinking huel is some extremely healthy drink
So all you want to see is sycophantic praise for huel ?
Anyone who mentions anything other than praise must be exterminated ?
Such a poor attitude
Why would you say that ? Or suggest that you may close the topic
Everyone is playing nicely
There has been no abuse anywhere, its a simple debate
Can you tell me why, instead of sourcing local quality ingredients for the product, do you instead source from a country on the otherside of the world, known to flout health and safety laws in regards to food production and know to have horrific pollution
Why would you go all that way to buy from such a place when you are selling a “health product”?
I would be curious to know the rationale if i am indeed incorrect in my statement of it being the cheapest
This is a remarkably arrogant and presumptuous thing to say as an opening remark to someone you don’t know, have never met, and have a teeny-tiny little bit of information on. Besides, I heap my scoops, so the numbers are closer to 500 to 1,000 calories per day. Oh, and I do IF, too, which means I have no breakfast.
Leaving the details to one side, though, years of yoga and qi gong have given me a fairly high awareness level of what’s going on with my body at any given time, what it thrives on, what to avoid - and after over two years (I should have said 26 months, not 14) using Huel daily, I know better than anyone how good it is for me.
No, I haven’t. I’ve never engaged with FB or Instagram, never had accounts with either, I don’t own a TV, and I don’t go onto the Huel site as my subscription is automatic. Can you see how your assumptions constantly trip you up?
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