{"id":221297,"date":"2025-10-17T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221297\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:52:10","slug":"a-huel-fans-reaction-to-the-recent-expose-on-lead-in-protein-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221297\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huel Fan\u2019s Reaction to the Recent Expos\u00e9 on Lead in Protein Powder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has the protein powder bubble<\/a> been punctured? On Oct. 14, Consumer Reports published an investigation<\/a> into the heavy metal levels of 23 popular protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes, reporting that many of them contain concerningly high levels of heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and arsenic.<\/p>\n

Of the brands that were evaluated, two contained enough lead that the experts CR consulted advised against ever consuming them: Naked Nutrition\u2019s Vegan Mass Gainer and Huel\u2019s Black Edition. Per the report, the former contained 7.7 micrograms of lead per serving, or roughly 1,570 percent of CR\u2019s \u201clevel of concern\u201d for the heavy metal. And the latter contained 6.3 micrograms of lead per serving, or about 1,290 percent of CR\u2019s determined daily lead limit.<\/p>\n

Both brands have since defended their products. Naked Nutrition said<\/a> that after reviewing the available information and verifying results through independent third-party testing, it \u201cconfirmed that no heavy metals exceeded FDA reference intake levels for adults.\u201d Meanwhile, Huel claims<\/a> its data<\/a> \u201ctells a very different story from the one presented in that article,\u201d and that all of the company\u2019s products \u201care independently tested, and the results consistently show that the naturally occurring minerals found in our formulas are well within globally recognised food safety standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the CR revelations sent shockwaves into the ever-growing ranks of proteinmaxxers<\/a>. Especially those who happen to have consumed quite a bit of the aforementioned protein brands. We got on the phone with Huel customer Adam Cross on Thursday, minutes after he got out of a blood test for lead and a urine test for a spectrum of heavy metals.<\/p>\n

Cross caught wind of the report\u2019s findings not long after it was published. \u201cI did hear about it, oh man, maybe two days ago or so,\u201d says the 36-year-old Philadelphia resident. \u201cI didn’t really think too much about it, but suddenly somebody had posted a picture of Huel’s lead content and I was like, \u2018I eat that every single day, sometimes twice a day.\u2019 So, that kind of got me worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cross discovered Huel through his hobby of powerlifting<\/a>. To gain muscle<\/a>, he was aiming to eat between 3,000 and 4,000 calories a day\u2014no easy task. Huel offered a solution. He\u2019d eat it raw, put it in a morning smoothie, or add it to a mix of yogurt and granola<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has the protein powder bubble been punctured? On Oct. 14, Consumer Reports published an investigation into the heavy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,538,1295,137,64099,532],"class_list":{"0":"post-221297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-life-advice","14":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}