You don’t realise just how good food is until you lose it.
Earlier this year, I stopped eating for a week. I wasn’t fasting, or on hunger strike — I was trying out Huel, a far-out food-replacement drink that promises to give you all the nutrients and vitamins you need to stay alive.
You don’t need to stop eating food to drink Huel, and many users use it to supplement existing diets when they can’t be bothered to cook, or don’t have the time to.
But some customers swear by a more extreme 100%, Huel-only diet — so I wanted to put it to the test.
The rules were simple: No food, ever. (Other drinks were okay though, occasionally.) No additives not made by Huel. I could have as much Huel as I wanted, or needed. One week. That’s it.
Read on to see how I fared, but here’s a spoiler: It really wasn’t fun.
(If you want a condensed version, you can also watch a video about my Huel-only week here.)
Huel is developed by a UK company of the same name. It’s pretty similar to Soylent, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup that also makes a meal-replacement drink.
It promises to offer you everything you need in a drink. Protein, vitamins, carbs, minerals, fibre — it’s all in there. A typical serving is about 500 calories.
It comes as a dry powder that you then mix with water, much like a protein shake. You can also bake it into fancy recipes, and add all sorts of extra ingredients, with Huel enthusiasts sharing recipes online. But I wanted the hardcore, "pure" Huel experience.
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