Are Soylent, Huel, and Other Meal Replacements Healthy?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2018
- Is it the future of eating or just a bag of processed foods? An in-depth look at the ingredients in three meal replacements: Soylent, Huel, and Ka'Chava.
- Links and Sources -
/ micthevegan
/ micthevegan
/ micthevegan - @micthevegan
plantspace.org
My Cookbook: micthevegan.com/product/mics-...
TIY Tiny House Channel: / @tiytinyityourself7733
Amazon Wish List: a.co/aTEpQpK
Soylent Ingredients:
files.soylent.com/pdf/soylent-...
Maltodextrin Quote: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
5 servings soy, 4 grams leucine raised IGF-1: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
NIH Info on Iron: ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iro...
Blood Fat Spike from Canola: atvb.ahajournals.org/content/a...
Coconut Oil Raises LDL: academic.oup.com/ajcn/article...
My BCAA video: • New Report: Toxic Vega...
Calcium Supplementation and Atherosclerosis:
www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/1...
Huel Ingredients:
huel.com/pages/nutritional-in...
Airline Pilot DNA Damage and Antioxidants Study:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
Beta Carotene Supplements and Lung Cancer:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8...
Mouse Study on Retinyl Palmitate:
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/...
Ka'Chava Ingredients:
www.kachava.com/pages/ingredi...
Freeze Dried Fruit Study:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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When I was living alone, working about 60 hours per week, had a long commute both ways, and didn't get an actual lunch break, this stuff was about the only way I got any nutrition at all. I doubt it's as healthy as eating a diet rich in whole plant foods, but it's a big step up from a vending machine or a drive thru.
Similar situation with the lunch break issue and no time for prepping or batching. Not a vegan, but just got some Huel to see if it's better than my current "I can eat those chips really fast" solution. Fingers crossed it tastes OK.
@@elizabethcohen1035 how are tou going ti find out if it's any healthier?
@@elizabethcohen1035 I just ordered some, how did you like it?
@Novasity Your body needs solid food, not just macro/micronutrients; for fibre, so your digestive juices start to flow when you chew; so saliva can start to break down food; so nutrients are absorbed at different stages of the digestive process; not just in the lower intestine. No doctor would recommend living on soylent.
@@Superfantastictop10 soylent is definitely a joke but huel seems to be making progress. It is separating itself into having low carb products and original products so hopefully as time goes on they will stay away from the bad things. I just started huel working 7 days a week but I also eat a variety of berries and fruits and salads throughout the day as well. I'm doing this more for weight loss. I tend to eat my meal prep way to quickly and end up with 200-500 more calories per day than I need. I'm just that type of person that if I restrict myself to one type of food I will stick to it. But again I work 56 hours a week. I also thing many of the issues people point out are less of an issue...like there being to much omega 3...which is needed for ALA conversion rates.
I have two soylents/huels (both bottled) per day. I eat real food for two meals and have small healthy snacks if I get hungry, which I rarely do. I did it as a way to get control of how I was eating and it's a great way to keep track of calories and nutrients. Here's what I can tell you. I started at 380 pounds. 16 months later I am at 235. When I started my cholesterol was 320 and is now 172. I no longer have type 2 diabetes or apnea. While neither of these products are weight loss products they have absolutely helped me get control of my eating. I do appreciate what you're saying and this video taught me some things, not knocking it. Just offering a different perspective. These products have been a part of my success. hard for to be mad at them. I am on the go, it helps.
I have Huel for lunch during the week while I'm at work. It hits the right balance between low effort and reasonable nutrition - before I started Huel I was having instant noodles
I know you’re vaccinated
@@goodinternetuser1943 Duh, how else am I going to top up my autism?
@@goodinternetuser1943 why does that matter?
@@stellarorbit1341 It shrinks your brain like veganism, which you also take part in which explains your ghoulish appearance with an abnormally high blood pressure
@@goodinternetuser1943 What are you talking about? Is there any peer reviewed articles you can link to support that ridiculous claim?
Why eat your lunch when you can snort it?
IS COCAINE VEGAN IM ON A 1000% COCAINE DIET
haha.
Isn't health so much work..? ;)
Would you please consider doing a video about the fast mimicking diet developed by longevity researcher Valter Longo? He was interviewed by Rich Roll a while back, and, while they clashed a bit over Longo’s general dietary recommendations (not strictly vegan), Roll seemed impressed by the fasting data.
Many are put off by Longo’s involvement in packaging and selling an FMD kit (at an exorbitant $250/kit), but I understand his share of profits goes to charity. And there is no shortage of DIY versions out there for those who prefer to approximate the tested version and save a chunk of change.
Anyway, I would be interested in hearing your opinion. Thanks.
What was “Soylent Green?” It was a movie starring Charlton Heston where he discovered it was made from humans. That’s how I view omnivores btw-a piece of flesh (cow, dog, human) can look the same if it’s prepared a certain way. Not interested in drinking any mystery powder, nor am I interested in consuming any flesh. But one day, when resources are scarce, omnivores will turn to eating their fellow species as regular sustenance.
A very short summary of my opinion:
It's healthier than skipping meals/eating junk food.
It's worse than eating a variety of plant based whole foods.
Simples.
Agreed :-) Kinda like healthy fast food ! If your too busy to have a nice meal these will do better than a McDonald's !
where does he say or provide evidence that skipping meals is worse
Deicidium 🙄 are you suggesting that eating nothing at all will somehow make your life better than having one of these products?
@@jotty2451 have you heard of intermittent fasting?
It’s there for people on the go or at work who can’t get lunch and are sick of getting machine junk food. So I’d rather drink Soylent as a meal when I’m at work than snacking. Whole plants foods will always be best but we can’t always bring the stuff wherever we go
Response from the Huel creator himself:
He’s incorrect on so many points:
MCTs - Huel is low lauric and high capric and caprylic acid
Huel has a GI of 27 - so his oats being digested quickly comment is moot
Defending Soylent here: he’s incorrect on isomaltulose which is not a sugar; it’s a low GI polysaccharide
Leucine - I couldn’t disagree with him more. You need a reasonable amount of leucine per meal to activate the mTor enzyme to kick start protein synthesis. Inadequate leucine relative to carb intake, is one of the reasons contributing to obesity
If he thinks we’re trying to appeat to keto diet, he doesn’t know what a keto diet is!
Not sure of the relevance to slating added vitamin A to either Huel or Soylent
It’s a shame he didn’t spend an hour or so more checking out some facts before making the video.
@boson96 The owner of Huel has a forum called MuscleTalk, a thread was made about the video and he responded.
Isomaltulose composed of glucose and fructose, so yes it is a type of sugar...
He isn't even looking at the facts- soylent has more algal oil than canola oil, but he skims right over algal oil on the nutritional label. 2:47
@@cinthiavasconcelos9979 In biochemistry, I recall learning anything edible that has a name that ends in "ose" is a sugar. Hence, fructose, glucose, maltose, sucrose, lactose, galactose, etc. These ingredients are all sugars.
@@1houndgal The owner is not completely correct in saying it's not a sugar. However in this video Mic gives the impression of it just being glucose and fructose in disguise. It's a disaccharide meaning your body needs to expend energy and time to break it down (slow releasing) so it is not the same and it's misleading to infer otherwise.
"I am just turning down money, left and right. All for you guys." 😃😃 Mic, seriously I love you man, I support you through Patreon and will continue to do so!
To me, your videos are as important as Nutrition Facts and Plant Based News. Keep it coming!
Agreed. The information in Mic's videos is what led me to a vegan diet, and looking back now I think it was his sincerity on the topic that won me over.
@@melissashoemaker386 Agreed. The information in Mic's videos made me want to become a vegan later in life after I move out
And don't forget the sense of humor and bad puns...
Yup. At least as important. Nutritionfacts is absolutely amazing to reference, but as a regular education source, it is too scientific in that it just takes all information that is established, and analyses it. With there being more explanation and informed opinion-forming done on channels like this one here, it offers a more context-adequate input to the regular viewer.
Thank you for making this video, it’s been really interesting to hear your thoughts on it. I’ve been using Huel as a replacement for 2 or 3 of my meals a day for about 6 months now. It definitely isn’t ideal but between working, studying, travelling and training I just don’t have the time to prepare balanced, whole food-based meals. I also find it helps me keep my IBS under control which is a huge bonus. I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, or even most people, but it works for me right now.
This is the only video about Huel that feels honest. Every. Single. Other. Video. is an obvious plug. Thank you!!
Mic's videos flow so nicely and are always jam-packed with tons of great info. I appreciate the legit research and effort to make these videos as unbiased as possible as far as the literature is concerned.
Check the critical threads in the comments and you'll discover your comment isn't exactky the case for at least this particular video 😕
Yea the owner of Huel debunked the shit out of this video you should cross reference these “facts” before encouraging poor journalism
@@robertorodrigueziii5574 thanks, can you link the Huel debunking? Couldn't find it after a casual search
I concur
A couple of years ago I had a period of the most severe depression that I'd ever experienced. I had completely stopped cooking, so I was subsisting on total junk food and hardly eating. I decided to buy some Huel and I found it very useful in so far as it meant: a) that I was eating, and b) that what I was eating contained at least some nutritional value.
I appreciate this video for being ostensibly quite fair-minded - it's prima facie unlikely that meal replacements are going to be either complete panaceas or fatally toxic sludge. I also appreciate Mic for his hardline advocacy of the notion that the best possible health is something worth making a serious go at attaining. It's a dysmal feature of our culture that it is considered unusual. However, given the very real constraints sometimes imposed by the complications of life or even simple weakness of will or preference, many of us will be choosing on occassion amongst sub-optimal alternatives; in that context, our choices shouldn't be measured by the yardstick of optimality. I think these sorts of meal replacements can sometimes play a very useful role for standing in place of worse options. Even just from a marketing perspective, I regard it as a small victory that Huel is spreading the notion that a Vegan diet can be nutritionally complete.
Great comments, thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you are feeling better these days.
I jumped on the Soylent train in 2015 and definitely consumed too much of it over the course of a year (stressful job) and I ended up developing a massive Candida overgrowth in my gut. While I can't definitely say Soylent was the cause, I've suspected it - and meal replacements in general - ever since. This was the beginning of a long, arduous journey of healing and recovery - which has led me to now (2019) where my Candida symptoms are still present - but very sparse and manageable. While I definitely regret eating poorly in the past (which seems to have damaged my microbiome permanently), the silver lining has been self education. In the past four years, I've drastically reduced my sugar intake, migrated to buying healthier foods and began cooking almost every meal I eat. This is also why I'm watching this video right now! So thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos - it means a lot to everyone here!
Sorry about your Candida and yes, there are very few successful long term easy diet fixes and fads. Every time I've tried to incorporate the same EASY meal variant several times a day, I got burned. This process help me discover food allergies (and other side effects) that were revealed if I ate them in large quantities rather than just different foods & shakes throughout the day. I pray that your body heals soon
I'm that person you are talking about in the end, I love food but I'm a real crappy eater and maker of food. Not a crappy cook, when I finally cook something it usually tastes good, I just tend to forget about food completely or just be unable to muster the energy to make some. Have been ever since I was young.
Combine that with a very active lifestyle and being a "hard keeper" you can prob discover the problem.
Wich is the reason I love a Huel, I can replace a meal or two on top of my normal food intake those days when I normally would end up skipping meals.
I'm fully aware it's not ideal and have issues, and I try to eat healthy, whole food as often as possible.
BUT it is better for me to reach for my Huel bag when I know I just won't have the (mental) energy to prep food then going without.
Instead of ending up tired and hungry later at night when my lack of food catches up with me I feel full, satisfied and have the energy I need through out the day.
I have enjoyed trying huel will re order. When you look at the average diet of someone eating fast food every day a so-so breakfast followed by lasagna for dinner and popcorn before bed, and cokes. Well replacing couple meals and saving 80 grams of fat and 1800 on salt its a big step in the right direction.
@@jeffstrains4014 huel is for sports people,lol I tried huel and it was nice lol do you shampoo with it too?it seems to me the only people that drink huel are them lesbian and gay supporters of the LGBTQ community
Quick links:
0:53 Soylent review
5:49 Huel review
8:47 Ka'Chava
11:06 Summary
They're called timestamps you boomer
@@daMillenialTrucker How you exactly know that's a boomer? sounds like personal issue.
Mic, thank you so much for NOT selling out anybody particular brand. It makes you so much more credible!
I love your informativness, which isn’t a word. I needed the realistic perspective and that’s what this is. Thank you.
I love Huel! It’s either that or I don’t eat breakfast. Smoothies require a loud blender (not great at 4am) and unless they’re in season, some fruits can be very expensive
Thanks for making this video.
I've been drinking Soylent heavily for the past 12-months and I can't say I feel it's been a best decision. For example, there were days where I virtually only drank Soylent, because I was tight on money, didn't have the time, rushing to school, or just didn't want to get out of bed. My body felt completely drained; I always would think, "But I drank a Soylent!?", but I kept telling myself the exhaustion was due to lack of sleep or mental health issues.
I know I shouldn't feel any embarrassment, but I can't help but be a tad ashamed of myself for not looking into it first. And I'm not saying Soylent is bad. I still think the caffeinated ones are a good substitute for people's afternoon coffee. It's just not good for a full day's food intake. I always knew it but didn't know why.
Thank you!
I love how simple it is to eat healthy and well. Thank you for making these videos.
Always look forward to your videos Mic! Don't ever change✌
I think you should have pointed out that Huel does NOT contain any added sugars like isomaltose like Soylent. They have an unsweetened version and one sweetened with sucralose. This causes the glycemic index of Huel to be much lower, around 27, comparable to chickpeas and much lower than standard rolled oats.
yh huel is british thats why no shit american crap
@@girlsdrinkfeck yeah because the U.K. is so healthy, lol.
@@NeverDoubtMe23 healthier thn usa
@@girlsdrinkfeck That's about the worst compliment you can get
@@axelvink9840 aids
Thanks for this. I use Kachava and Huel Hot and Savory, especially while traveling to be healthier than many travel options and when short on time. The Huel Hot and Savory is much closer to whole food being mostly dehydrated grains, legumes, etc. I know you reviewed Huel shakes but I would love to see a review on Huel Hot and Savory specifically (or other similar meal replacements if you're aware of them). Thanks.
Thank you soooo much Mic for your great review and details of the ingredients. Very very grateful people like you are out there. Cheers!
I drink both Soylent and Huel occasionally and in my opinion they should be seen as kind of a fast food/junk food replacement. They're fast, convenient and while they're not perfect is is much healthier than eating Ramen and potato chips.
What I do like about them is they're very filling and they're high in protein which is good for me since I'm physically active.
Totally agree with this. I use Huel as a snack / a fourth meal, because I wanna gain weight and muscle. Would never use it to replace regular meals.
huel isnt a junk food lol, vegan food is junk since its rammed with artificial shit and vegan diets lack vit b12 and all the amino acids etc
If you look at the ingredients you'd have to be very missinformed to call it junk food.
Sup choom! A pleasant surprise to see you here 👊😄
@@Vizzo69s Thanks choom! Preem seeing another viewer here.
I am impressed with the detail of this review! 👏👏👏
Huel actually helped me transition to plantbased eating. I have IBD and eating whole plant foods right away was challenging, it helped my body adjust as I reduced animal products and introduced more plant foods. These days I'm 2 years vegan and my disease is well controlled and taken back in progression by a few years, I mainly eat whole plant foods batch cooked, with maybe 4 junk meals a week, and something like 3 huel shakes a month for convenience.
Do u have crohns disease?
@@sepzillahd1894 I do.
What is vegan junkfood?
The junkiest thing I eat as a vegan is chips, crackers, huel, and peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat and white organic pasta or a power bar. Much better than the drive through at Carls Junior for breakfast.
@@anthonyromano8565 thanks
First time watching your video I really love how factual you are and that you credit the studies you're information is from
I appreciate your honesty and well thought out opinions, which are based on a lot of research. Thank you
I'm drinking Huel while watching this.
me too man. me too.
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I'm glad you made this video I was thinking about it for few weeks. Here in Czech we have Mana, it's basically the same thing, I ordered some because sometimes I don't have time in school and I use it as a supplement snack when I'm super busy, but I always add some fruit in it and it actually taste good that way.
How does Mana compare to Soylent and Huel?
Dobry den pane michalkova 😃😃
I was drinking soylent when this video came up! It’s great for a person always on the go! I am a busy student and I work full time, so when I am unable to cook (bc finding healthy food in america is expensive) this is my go to!
Thank you for this video. It was so packed with information, I had to watch it a couple of times to grasp all of it. I was looking at these meal replacements as a healthy option on busy days and your video helped me with a decision. Also, I might be the oddest new subscriber to your channel because I'm a meat and fish eater. But I really like how you lay out information which will help me round out my choices to include more plant based nutrition. Thank you!
Trust me, Soylent is way more nutritious for the average person than their typical meals, especially those eating frozen and fast foods.
Frozen food is not unhealthy
since when was frozen food now bad lmao
This was very educational. I was considering trying Soylent or Huel, but I think trying Kachava would be better. Obviously the 240-250 calories per meal is wtf levels of low, but I do plan to use this as a supplemental snack more than a meal replacement. I work insane hours, forever changing and never consistent, and I needed something I could drink and not eat. I know this video is from 2018 so I'm not sure if you've don't an update on these replacements, but if there is one I'd love to see what they've changed over the years.
This video was and is well beyond its years. Amazing video! Amazing info! I can't say thank you enough also!! 🙌
Hi, I have enjoyed your informative content for over 5 yrs now. You helped me make the transition to a plant.based diet. You provide value and thank you.
I have been using Huel for 4 months now and can tell you that it has made a big difference in my like. I can manage my macros simply and don't have large kcal deficits and binges. I feel satiated always and have no urges. I also have been saving about 35% on my food bill and have zero food waste. It is good/whole food, when you look at the product its simply powdered versions of the food. Like when I made smoothies. They have a full line of food including Meals, Protein powder snacks and bars.
I also travel alot and now always have a healthy option. No more best of bad choices when I am really hungry.
When you sum up all the benefits, IMO, it's a simple decision and makes a consistent/long tern based diet much more sustainable.
Keep up the great work and thanks again.
I used Huel for a couple of months and yes of course it's not a replacement for a well balanced real plant based diet. But I am a chemistry student and it's pretty hard to get enough to eat per day sometimes, so shakes like these are pretty good if you're in a hurry. And it's still healthier than the fast food ( even vegan) you would eat otherwise if you don't have other options
Well... Huel is made from real plants. I don't really understand what you mean by that.
@jshowa o they are like 400 calories a serving and you can drink multiple servings at a time, I drank 800 calories worth of Huel this morning (I blended a couple of bananas into it so it was probably closer to 1000 calories total)
Just ordered Huel today after reading through their website, and figured I needed a second opinion so I knew what I was getting into. I've been vegan for a little over two months now and have been too lax about planning meals recently. Many times I've ended up without lunch at work and either survived off gas station potato chips or had to eat something non-vegan just to keep my calories up (I work construction so this is vital). I think using Huel to replace one to two midday meals and eating whole foods for breakfast and dinner could be a healthy route to go, and it is definitely going to keep me from cheating my diet two or three times a week like I have been recently. Great video, thanks for the info!
dont want to be that guy but if your eating non vegan food, even rarely, then that doesnt make you vegan. it makes you plant based. No vegan would ever eat anything non vegan on purpose
@@logitech2010100 this is like telling a recovering addict that they’re not sober because they’ve had relapses previously, despite their detailed explanation of how they are actively following the steps to prevent that from happening in the future.
@@elijahgavin6706 i get you buy I would still say he is more plant based rather than anything else.
@@logitech2010100 why do you care about the label? Vegan or not the man is simply trying to eat healthier. You are part of the problem and that’s why people hate the vegan community.
@@ShocKkOne00 just made a statement. Relax brother.
Today on Thanksgiving, I am thankful for "Mic the Vegan"!! Mic, I went Vegan last Christmas after you showed us the myth of bone broth. I was literally looking for how to make bone broth from deer bones when I stumbled on your video and haven't looked back. Your videos build an important bridge between science and the average person. Thank you so much!
I bought a package of Soylent yesterday so the timing of me coming across this video is great. Definitely going to get my act together with the batch cooking!
I’ve been using HUEL for months now, and it’s been pretty great. My bloodwork has been normal and I’m going to get another test done soon.
J P hey JP how is it going on your HUEL journey i am curious!
He prolly died.@@voodouche
@@Banane3 yup... Stuff is great for a die it.
Update?
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I'm considering one of those as a new regime to combat my eating disorder...
I'm not sure about this. I'm more or less recovered from an ED and I really would like to try Huel, so that I don't have to cook for myself, but I'm really afraid it might trigger my ED again because it makes calorie counting so easy
I tried to find away to get a personal level with you without it being public, without success Mic.
Much love & Light on your journey.
Very well put into perspective and with the right dose of humour! Had some proper laughs and learnt a lot along the way. Agreed on everything 🙏🏼💕🌱
Here's a quote from Huel's Registered Nutritionist (who, interestingly, also defends Soylent too),
"He’s incorrect on so many points:
MCTs - Huel is low lauric and high capric and caprylic acid
Huel has a GI of 27 - so his oats being digested quickly comment is moot
Defending Soylent here: he’s incorrect on isomaltulose which is not a sugar; it’s a low GI polysaccharide
Leucine - I couldn’t disagree with him more. You need a reasonable amount of leucine per meal to activate the mTor enzyme to kick start protein synthesis. Inadequate leucine relative to carb intake, is one of the reasons contributing to obesity
If he thinks we’re trying to appeal to keto diet, he doesn’t know what a keto diet is!
Not sure of the relevance to slating added vitamin A to either Huel or Soylent.
It’s a shame he didn’t spend an hour or so more checking out some facts before making the video."
This is the truth but people preffer listening to what they want to hear rather than the truth. And I eat (drink) neither of those two meals
I thought activating mTor would stimulate IGF-1, which can lead to cancer.
Hm interesting makes me feel better about eating huel every day edleast 🤣. Personally I cant afford to eat 3 meals a day before huel I'd bassicaly just wait all day until the end of the day to eat a single meal with huel I can afford to eat two 500 cal bottles during the day before that and obviously i feel alot better now doing that. But I genuinely couldnt survive without huel 🤣
Is this quote from another video? Would you mind linking the source?
@@freemarketswork IGF-1 is essential to the muscle building process. Fact is, everything is going to kill you in one way or another. But when the risk is so low, it's negligible.
I use soylent on a daily basis and I love it! I work and go to school, and don't have time to prepare a lunch without feeling extra stress. I don't get home until almost 3a.m most nights... So I love soylent! It gives me nutrients and is plant based. It's easy and I don't have to think about it.
this was incredibly informative. You know your stuff!
I like this a lot. It helped me out, I was considering using meal replacements until I watched this. Thanks!
with the casual referring back in forth in the video it's basically
Soylet from 0:56
Huel 06:40
Kachava 08:45
Huel 5:50 actually! Bu thank you
Without huel I’d be eating only ramen with fast food or Oreos as a treat for myself
It may not be the healthiest but it’s a huge step up from what most people eat normally
I hope we can make a world where no one has to work so much they can't find time to eat, and no one is so resource poor that there aren't healthy options for nourishing ourselves. Eating space food won't make up for the damage working 40+ hours a week does on our physical, social, emotional, mental and spiritual health. That said, I respect y'all and your hustle and doing what we have to survive in this apocalyptic hellscape. I am personally looking for meal replacement options for a chronic gut illness, the medical options covered by insurance are either (a) loaded with industrial animal and big agro products or (b) prohibitively expensive. I ordered Huel to give it a try as it's less than half the cost of my current medical meal replacement with similar specs. I eat half my calories from meal replacements and mostly pureed whole foods for the other half. Good luck everyone on your health journeys!
With all the choices out there for protein drinks and meal replacements, I'm not sure why anyone would choose the first two options considering the ingredients. I love the way you broke things down for us, though. It's really important to see how some ingredients can be out of balance like that. I love what you do. Thank you!
I disabled add blocker to get you and my other subscriptions revenue. It's only a couple seconds I have to tolerate video and you are worth it!
Great video Mic! I always worry when the ingredient list gets too long.
Or the ingredient names on the list are too long, haha
Thank you for your information. Very helpful to me. I’m not a vegan but I’m interested in eating much less meat than I do now. I can use a healthy meal replacement because I do get too busy to always eat a good meal. So your information on Ka’Chava was very helpful to me.
That is the video i've been looking for! Well done
Ugh, was drinking a soylent when I clicked on this. WHY DO I DRINK SOYLENT?! I’m a busy PhD student and I do NOT have time to cook all the time. Many times I love that I can just chug a soylent and continue working, rather than taking a long break. Cooking and chewing are chores for me. If I could take a pill 3x a day and get everything I need, I WOULD! Soylents the next best thing.
Congrats going for your PhD! Check out meal prepping 😁 and snack prepping too. Saves me from grabbing junk food. Good luck!
Alysia Wilson thank you! I should really get more into meal prepping. Many times I’ll just throw some tofu and broccoli into a pan to be extra lazy
Another option is to buy some vegetables, and whenever you want a candy bar, take a cucumber, some broccoli stalks, or a bell pepper. Then for a meal, a hot tea, baked potato in the microwave over frozen kale. Who needs cooking?
Green smoothies work. All you need is a blender :)
why were you drinking humans, you cannibal!
Is that 4 gram of leucine per meal or per day? Because I get to 4 grams in a day +- by just eating lentils and buckwheat
First video that I've watched from your channel. Seemed like a very unbiased review and I just subscribed. :)
Great presentation. Tried Soylent and Huel. Was considering Ka'Chava. Is there any resource you would advocate to planning meals? I find it is my toughest challenge. Especially for workdays. I typically eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at the station. However, due to calls I sometimes either skip meals or "combine" them calorie wise.
Thank you for your time.
Just a question, coming from Italy: why are you so OK with Canola oil? Isn't Canola a GMO variety of rapeseed? People from Canada and US seem to think of it as the best kind of oil, while in Europe we swear by olive oil (which is cold pressed and doesn't require any processing).
Cheers
Irvin depends on how you cook the oil. Olive oil isn’t the best when it’s heated too long. I used both oils based on the food I am cooking. And not all GMO is bad per se.
Dont heat olive oil lol
Due to my medication (that affect hunger), and our tiny kitchen (which means i cant premake meals) i am thinking about trying this out to have a more balanced diet. That way i could have this during the day and a proper meal in the evening.
I'm in the exact same situation. My medicines lowers my hunger so I forget to eat during the day. How did it turn out for you? Did it work?
I'm not a Vegan, but I really appreciate someone finally online actually talking about nutrition from meal replacements in very plain terms, using the proper names for the nutrients at play and what they do and then backing your opinion up with studies and then even showing them on screen. It's incredibly hard to find legitimately informative content on nutrition that isn't either a thinly vailed ad or click bait title, you not taking the sponsorship was the right move that not many others would make. Thanks for making this stuff it's really important
Thanks for the Video Mic!!!
I generally follow a whole food vegan diet but I have been having one flask of Huel a day for about a year just to fill in any nutritional gaps I might be missing and I think I feel better for it. I think trying to organise your diet to try and hit all 26 essential vitamins and minerals is a pretty big task, especially when you’re a broke student like me.
Frozen vegetables, dried beans and lentils, oats nutritional yeast and flax that you ground yourself will get you very far. Sunflower seeds are also alot of nutrition for your bucks, loaded with vitamin E.
Try using chronometer while eating like this for day, and check the micromutrient ratios.
Jonatan Olsén thank you, I’ll give this a try. 👍
Śūnyatā Eight cheers for the advice, I’ll certainly look into it 👍
Potatoes (both sweet and regular), are a perfect food. Augment with some vegetable you like, and some fruit, and you're all good. You don't have to worry about getting 26 essential vitamins constantly.
lydiaD777 yeah, that sounds more or less like the diet I follow. Maybe I’m a little OCD when it comes to diet. Would love to get some blood work done if I could spare the money just to see where I stand.
A video drops just as I'm about to go to bed? Meh, sleep can wait
Good video; thanks for covering this Mick!
What I need is a way to get these needed items while traveling and living in hotel rooms for work. I’m having a nightmare of a time figuring out a healthy diet in my situation. This was helpful with what I have been trying. Explained some issues.
Does the calcium still have a noticeable, negative effect if your LDL cholesterol is below 70?
Since plant milks are fortified with calcium.
Good question. But I doubt there are any studies on this.
It's probably better when it's fortified rather than a pure calcium supplement, which most studies talk about. However, there is no conclusive evidence in which circumstances calcium supplements cause atherosclerosis, or if they do cause it. I would just stay away from calcium supplements and fortified foods, and if you want to supplement for your bone health, like many do, then just stick with a healthy diet and possibly a vitamin D supplement. Vitamin D is essential for being able to utilize the calcium you have circulating in your body.
I bought Huel, unfortunately I had to order 2 giant bags. It was really useful on a mountain trip, where I had virtually no access to any store, let alone one with vegan food or fresh produce. Can't say it was the best, but I was fine, definitely had energy and was feeling satiated. It also has a very long expiration date (12 months).
On the other side Huel is really powdery, quite bland (had to add a sweetener of some sort anyways) and can be chunky (and using a blender destroys nutrients even further). It's great in oatmeal in the morning and that keeps you full forever. It's fine as a meal enhancer, but not replacement, especially every meal. I can't see myself buying it again, it's just not for me, I love cooking, whole foods, texture of any sort, spices etc.
I looked at Huel for some of my mountain trips but after reading about them I decided against. Reading your comment made me glad about my decision. @marcus24000, cans add weight and take up too much room. I recommend dehydrated foods, lightweight, easy to pack and you can filter and boil water from the mountain.
@marcus24000 You think canned vegetables are a viable backpacking food?????
Are you...
I just....
@marcus24000 3,000 calories a day backpacking, easy.
How many calories in a can of carrots? What's it weigh?
@marcus24000 Beans take a long time to cook.
Couscous and oats can both be cold-soaked. Peanut butter is loaded with energy for weight. Quick cooking rices are great.
You can't carry a ton of fuel.
@marcus24000 400 calories to a one pound can.
I don't think you "get" backpacking.
I started with Huel and switch to Kachava about 5 months ago. It tastes much better and makes me feel much better. It sits better with your stomach 100% and you can tell that it is better for you. I use it for a morning snack and it has helped me a lot in terms of energy and helped me stabilize emotional/mental state. I couldn't recommend it enough for a quick and pretty healthy snack.
i Just Subscribed with Huel & Ka'Chava for me & my mom. :) thanks for the Review! I work 2 full-time jobs so these will help me a lot as a vegan.
I'll stick with rich roll smoothies, minus the coconut oil.
Love his podcast :)
Blue berries! Always delicious, always nutritious!
Never heard of any of them. Appreciate the information.
Thanks Mic ! What are your thoughts regarding drinking coconut milk / coconut cream in your “coffee/or cacao superfood “ 1-4 tines per day instead of milk. Usually using canned non organic or canned organic , or “fresh organic (still containing emulsifiers etc) - should we cut this out if we have crystalized cholesterol in our liver ?
I used Huel an my smoothies for 2 months, great taste, but it fuckes my stomach up. Got severe acid reflux from it. First thought it was the Coffee. I will never blame you again, old friend :(
I've had huel for breakfast for two weeks. Been feeling awesome every day, eating less throughout the day and having more energy. Also it's cheaper faster easier and healthier than how I was eating breakfast before. So I'll take the marginally higher risk of cancer. It's better than hot dogs or cereal or canned soup.
Yes, I am lazy.
How's it going two years later?
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100% agree. There are some circumstances it’s necessary. My husband is in the navy and is at sea at the minute on a submarine. The navy are getting better, buts sometimes he literally gets the craziest unbalanced meals with no access to anything else for months, therefore he can only remain “healthy” and on a vegan diet with a bit of huel. I wish I had heard about the last one you mentioned and thought about freeze drying fruits! Next time! Thanks for the tips! X
I use Huel and Soylent to help stay on a vegan diet when traveling. I travel very regularly from everywhere around the US to remote villages across Central and South America and Africa. I do not always have the ability to cook or to even have food in these situations. It can be extremely difficult eating vegan, especially healthy and balanced and enough calories in the circumstances. I’m so grateful for these products and hope they continue to develop further. 😊❤️
So, the moral of the story here is: just eat real whole food! Plant-based of course.
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not only... make sure you meat your rdi when doing so.
@@AmetReloads If I was raised in a factory farm I rather not be born at all, rather than be tortured my whole life untill they kill me. Maybe small family farms are ok, but people would still have to eat less animals because it is not sustainable for our worlds population. I personally cannot imagine raising an animal and then 2 years down the road killing it for food. I just keep imagining that these animals love the farmers, consider the farmers family, and then they are betrayed by them.
@@AmetReloads Everybody won't become vegan overnight, the numbers will go down over time through supply and demand or rather a lack of it.
Healthy Species I put the 50th thumbs up on your comment 🖒
I am having huel since 6 months and since 3 months i am having it atleast 4 times to max 5 times a day targeting 2000 calories per day. I had my blood test done past week, all my levels look normal in fact much better than last year. Huel is a great product. I would love to continue it for my whole life.
I have 13 days being vegan!!! And I'm so happy and feeling great , plus I fallow this channel to have good resources to not do it in the wrong way
I'm a Long time fan, Mic! Love the info, keep it up! Just want to get your opinion on veggie sausages. How bad do you think they are health wise?
I do a lot of sport, and I use Huel instead of taking Whey.
It works amazing.
I’m just wondering if Huel is not too much expensive compared to whey. But contrary to it, Huel not only gives proteins but also a lot of vitamins.
Lucas Kapi yeah well I got 2 packs of huel with some other stuff for 50€ and it comes down to 1,70€ per meal. I think this is amazingly cheap and I am really looking forward trying it out the next days
250 calorie meal?
*Eating disorder intensifies*
Besides freeze dried berries would you recommend anything in particular to add to huel if someone is consuming it for every meal?
I'll try it, but not giving up meat for it. I'll use this as a tool to help get myself healthier. I appreciate the information you provided on huel.
I had the best day ever drinking soylent. Must have been the sugar spike, lol
Bro do a video on minerals in today’s soil
Yesss absolutely yesss !!!!!!
Thanks for this video it really helped me form a better opinion.
recently for a very personal health reason i became interested in, well, health. my readings on that went well until i hit the question of diet. be real, very intelligent and well meaning people exist from no plant food at all, to no animal food at all. you are very clearly, and your honesty is appreciated, in one of those camps. its also kinda the most popular camp. so in any case i just want to say that i , like most people, just wanna do whats right, excuse the extremely bad use of the english language here. in any case i saw with almost no excercise worth mentioning because i tore an abdominal muscle that basically precluded it, i lost about 85 pounds, from 265-270 to 180 stable, regardless of how much i eat. the biggest changes in my diet were no sugar, no alcohol, and no junk food. at one point i was losing weight so fast that it was visible on a day to day basis. literally i would wake up and look at myself and see i had l ost weight. beyond that my liver markers as per a blood test all went normal, my heart rate dropped from the 90s to 60, my blood pressure is ideal ... and the diet that seems to have caused this was neither vegan or keto. its a bowl of whole oats every morning, no fruit at all except a few berries, a massive amount of vegetables over the course of the day, and usually one meat thing in the evening. 85 pounds and a complete normalization or better of all things even in the absence of an ability to exercise. I write this simply to ask where is there a forum full of intelligent people that i can talk to, debate, argue with, etc to try to understand what happened in my own body.
thank you so much for all of this good info, as always. Definitely not trying to criticize, just inform... As a massage therapist, I noticed that you lean your head and gesture with your head towards the left the most. Asymmetry is very typical, very normal and human... But if you are not already getting massage, I recommend that you find a therapist near you to help counteract this. you seem very healthy, and very attractive, and I wish the both of you well... but I would be remiss if I did not recommend this! Best wishes, and keep up the good work!
Is there any reason why this is a problem?
Calcium supplementation is bad? So no Soymilk with extra Calcium?
Good question, I'm confused as well.
just dont drink a shit load of it
There is no problem if it comes from sea weed.
Only synthetic Calcium is bad.
probably not a problem see how much the study used.. if im not wrong it was not fortified foods but with a calcium supplement, compare the amount if its much lower it shouldnt be a problem maybe even good if youre not getting calcium from where you should
The amount from that is quite small compared to replacing the calcium from entire meals with supplements.
Thank you so much Mike!
Much appreciated! However, i use huel as a recovery drink after i work out (i eat 3 normal meals a day) as i figured its better than whey protein etc. Do you think that its suitable for this? thanks.
Yeah I’ve had soylent. Didn’t know it was entirely GMO soy at first. When I found out, I was done. Supplementing with real food based powders is all I do and it’s just there to round out my meals.
Had never heard of soylent or all those meal replacements. Like to eat mostly real warm cooked food no matter how busy I am.
That's an awesome way to do it :)
Alice, me too, have a free vegan cookbook, th-cam.com/video/yzXXv9Gtnf8/w-d-xo.html
i drink it when i need to get my weight down a bit
This comment does nothing to add to the conversation for people curious about the contents of the meal replacements they're using, lol
Alice does not live in a food desert, and does not work two 30 hour "part time" jobs while traveling by bus.
Isn't it lovely that she finds time for real warm cooked food.
Awesome info ❤️ can you also do one for HUM nutrition? Especially their Daily cleanse and Raw beauty powder. Thanks mic!
I watched this because I was wondering what huel was and this was the only video that came up without a clickbait-y title. Thanks for the info!