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There's a lot of shaker-meals these days, like Huel, that you can easily bring anywhere and prepare on the spot. Including meal-bars.
by tmikaeld 3y ago
There's a lot of shaker-meals these days, like Huel, that you can easily bring anywhere and prepare on the spot. Including meal-bars.
- voytec 3y agoHow does Huel help avoid processed food?
- traveler1 3y agoI think the distinction between "processed food" and "ready food" is important here. Not all processed foods are bad - I am not paid to say this, but after doing a lot of preliminary research into Huel some 3 years ago, I've lived off it for weeks at a time when time-constrained or lazy. I usually feel better overall for it (fuller, prolonged energy), which for me, meant less snacking. On account of the higher carbs, I can't speak so much to their "instant meals", but the powders are a pretty even split of carbs/fats/protein, with the black powder being primarily protein for a slightly higher cost.
- senectus1 3y agothe poison is in the dosage. Processed foods are great and small amounts at infrequent times. But we tend to see them as a fast easy way to fill a hole.
- vintermann 3y agoWe can't live on raw food. I read a catalog from an "alternative" magazine once, which listed an enormous number of diets and self-help therapies. All raw diet was one of the extremely few (even) they warned against. It's damn near impossible to not harm your health with an all raw diet.
- ildon 3y agoFor me, it solves the "problem" of getting nutrients fast and effortlessly. When I don't feel like cooking, it allows me to get the energy I need, while avoiding fattening or, generally speaking, poorly nutrient food.
- Theodores 3y agoThis sounds like a circular problem. Cooking is not that hard, even if it is just for you on your lonesome. Really, if you can't be bothered to cook, that should be the time you start scrubbing potatoes and putting together a wholesome and satisfying meal, to actually enjoy it and be incentivised to cook some more.
- gruez 3y ago>Really, if you can't be bothered to cook, that should be the time you start scrubbing potatoes and putting together a wholesome and satisfying meal, to actually enjoy it and be incentivised to cook some more. This makes no sense. We already established that the person doesn't like cooking and your solution is to... cool anyways? Has it occurred to you that some people simply don't like cooking and/or doesn't place high value on food?
- MrPatan 3y ago"Processing" is not the issue. Food seeing the inside of a factory is not what will make you sick. It's what gets put in it. It's the sugar. I'm pretty sure at this point that the word "processed food" was also a stroke of marketing genius by the shit suggary food lobby. Avoids putting front and center what is it that makes the food bad (it's the sugar), and replace it with a generic scary-sounding word that can be applied to everything, so it diffuses responsibility and hides the actual problem ("See, this shit food uses unprocessed brown cane sugar as its addiction additive. Healthy!")
- nomorewords 3y agoWell it's not just the sugars. Processed food gets a lot of preservatives (some natural, some made in a lab) which make the food last longer and "look better". In Bulgaria (I think this is an EU directive though) you can see the preservatives on the nutrition info and they all have an ID (E###). Typically the more Es that something has, the more processed it has been and is seen as less healthy.
- d1sxeyes 3y agoAlthough that’s typically true, a lot of very natural ingredients also have “E numbers” (as we call them in the UK). For example, E164 is saffron, E290 is carbon dioxide, E901 is beeswax, E913 is lanolin. Loads of others are also extracts of natural products.
- cinntaile 3y agoIt means it was added to the product.
- gruez 3y ago>preservatives (some natural, some made in a lab) which make the food last longer and "look better" Any reason to think they're bad aside from a vague sense of "ewww chemicals"?
- lubos 3y agoThat's not entirely true. Processed food requires less energy to digest and absorb. Nutritionally it can be exactly the same food but the net calorie intake will be higher for food that has been processed. We should eat food that our pre-industrial ancestors would recognize.
- anonyfox 3y ago+1 for Huel. Using black edition for breakfast, hot&savory for lunch, for many months now. Basically all body needs in terms of nutrition are taken care of, including high fiber and protein, in a vegan way, quite cheaply (5-6€ per day). 900kcal in total, nearly zero effort/time spent. Then I can freely do „whatever“ for dinner that I enjoy. Nutrition basically solved.
- mupuff1234 3y agoI would never solely trust a VC backed company to supply me with all my required nutrition.
- lr4444lr 3y agoIs big agra really any better?
- macNchz 3y agoThere’s a lot to dislike about industrial agriculture, but ultimately a potato is pretty much a potato: you know what you’re getting.
- anonyfox 3y agoExcept there might be chemicals from the environment in there that the plant absorbs, or bacteria infections or salmonella depending on the food. Or like cheap greenhouse veggies, it’s mostly water with only a fraction of the nutritional profile the food used to have in the past. I like to have some standardization on the baseline input without much thinking - but everyone is different here I guess!
- gruez 3y agoWhat's the threat model here? That they'll one day make a "Our Incredible Journey" post on their company blog and you'll go hungry?
- jonplackett 3y agoBetter than a chocolate bar I guess. But that’s setting the bar very low
- pasc1878 3y agoI am English Huel is an extremely off putting name for food. There is no way that you would say you are eating Huel.
- go_prodev 3y agoDoes the word mean something different in England?
- Tsiklon 3y agoI think they may be correlating it with the similar sounding word “hurl”. Huel on the other hand is readily available in shops in pre-made form, and I’ve seen it in vending machines in Heathrow.
- ricardobeat 3y agoMaybe it's because it sounds like 'gruel', or the sound of vomiting.
- naoru 3y agoFor a Russian Huel is even more off-putting, "ohuel" (охуел) is a swear word which roughly means "out of his mind", derived from "huy" (хуй), which means "dick". I don't want no dick in my food, thank you very much.
- dep_b 3y agoWe do breakfast by mixing frozen fruits and spinach with some extra powders like protein, collagen, Macca and add some vitamins separately. It's fast, it tastes pretty good and you know you get a base amount of essential nutrients every day.
- siva7 3y agoYou folks must be joking. Clever marketing doesn't make extremely processed food healthy.
- vintermann 3y ago"Processing" is way too general. It includes boiling, frying, stirring, cutting, freezing, drying, soaking etc. Most food requires some sort of processing to be edible. I never saw the point of reducing all this into a single thing and declare that too much of is it bad.
- macNchz 3y agoThere is a spectrum of processing, from minimal chopping or boiling that you might do at home, to more involved processes that significantly transform the food, which changes how your body processes it. Meal replacement shakes like Huel would be considered “ultra processed” because they contain various industrially produced ingredients (artificial sweeteners, gums, extracts etc). The evidence seems to suggest that less processed are healthier, particularly when it comes to these ultra-processed items, not just boiling/frying/cutting etc. Personally I see these meal shakes being marketed as healthy/for athletes and think of how everyone 50 years ago though margarine was so much healthier than butter.
- withinboredom 3y agoBecause people want to eat unprocessed bread? /s
- bartonfink 3y agoThey do, to a certain extent. It's called whole wheat.
- withinboredom 3y agopeople eat plain wheat seeds?