# My experience with Huel

**URL:** <https://discourse.huel.com/t/my-experience-with-huel/4823>\
**Category:** Experiences\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.huel.com/t/my-experience-with-huel/4823 "2019-02-05T02:47:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![OrangePeel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@OrangePeel](https://discourse.huel.com/u/OrangePeel)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.huel.com/t/my-experience-with-huel/4823/1 "2019-02-05T02:47:11Z")

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I bought a couple packs of the vanilla about a year and a half ago. I thought it was pretty good when I first started taking it. I immediately noticed extra trips to the restroom as many others claimed would happen while you adjusted to the extra fiber in your diet.  
After about a week though, it started becoming a struggle to drink it due to all the sweeteners and the vanilla. I started to loathe my time with Huel. Then I started noticing my skin felt like it was getting a rash immediately after my Huel meals. Ultimately, I never finished my second bag. The ultra-sweet taste and the rashy skin feeling was just too much to handle.

Now I’m back and I was reconsidering Huel, perhaps the chocolate version. I decided to take a fresh look at the ingredients and the one ingredient that really sticks out to me is the sucralose. Sure, there are mixed studies about sucralose - but who am I to trust? I could go with the unsweetened version. But my trust is already shaken from seeing sucralose in the other flavors. What other ingredients were inserted that I don’t understand well? What are the risks?

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Huel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.huel.com/alex_huel/32/1196_2.png) [@Alex\_Huel](https://discourse.huel.com/u/Alex_Huel)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.huel.com/t/my-experience-with-huel/4823/2 "2019-02-06T19:51:12Z")

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Hey @OrangePeel. I’m sorry to hear Huel didn’t work out for you in the past but I’d love for you to give it a whirl again!

Here is a guide to the sucralose used in Huel: [https://huel.com/pages/guide-to-sucralose](https://huel.com/pages/guide-to-sucralose)

If you want more of an analysis of the Huel product, here are a couple of nutrition articles you might be interested in: [https://huel.com/pages/information-articles](https://huel.com/pages/information-articles)