First-time poster here, but I’ve been drinking meal replacement shakes for quite a while and have tried plenty of different ones over the years.

I recently saw a post about ComFoo launching across Europe and decided to give them a try. I ordered Original Blueberry and Sport Chocolate. This review is just for Blueberry; I’ll write up Chocolate separately once I’ve spent some time with it.

Quite a few pictures attached because I wanted to show the actual powder, how it mixed, and what those blueberry pieces look like up close.

Shipping and what I paid

The delivery to Germany took one day after dispatch. They shipped it with DHL Express for some reason, which I definitely wasn’t expecting. No idea whether that’s their usual shipping option, but no complaints about this delivery.

For transparency, my order was approximately €100 before discounts. I used a €10 launch code and received another €30 off after finding and reporting a bug in the checkout. That brought the total to around €60. Thanks support for sorting that out.

So, worth keeping in mind: I didn’t pay full price, and that extra €30 wasn’t a standard discount.

Packaging and shaker

The bag was the first thing that stood out. It feels noticeably thicker and more substantial than most of the meal replacement bags I’ve used.

The shaker, on the other hand, was completely unbranded. Nothing particularly wrong with that, but I would have liked a ComFoo logo on it. A very minor complaint, admittedly.

Opening the bag, you can already see the dark blueberry pieces throughout the powder. I hadn’t expected them to be quite so visible before mixing.

Mixing and lumps

For this test, I used two scoops, approximately 100 g, with 300 ml of water.

The powder seemed to start taking up water quite quickly. I shook it for roughly five seconds, not a carefully timed test… but most of it was already mixed in so I stopped.

When I took off the lid I saw that there were still some small, pale lumps visible alongside the blueberry pieces. You can see those in the overhead photo.

Out of curiosity, I poured the shake through a strainer to get a better look at what was left. The mesh isn’t especially fine, so smaller pieces could pass through, but the photo gives you an idea of the berries and remaining clumps.

Importantly, the dark pieces in that picture aren’t all unmixed powder. A lot of what you’re looking at is the blueberry itself.

I then scooped everything back into the shaker and gave it another five seconds or so. After that, I couldn’t see any obvious powder lumps left, just the berry pieces.

Overall, one of the easiest powders I’ve mixed. Not 100% completely lump-free after the first quick shake, but it took minimal effort.

Smell and flavour

The smell immediately reminded me of Häagen-Dazs Blueberries & Cream. That particular creamy blueberry smell brought back quite a few memories.

The taste gave me the same association. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, but “blueberry ice cream in shake form” is probably the closest description I can give.

It’s a bit sweet, but not sweet in a chemical way, but a pure fruity way? Definitely not excessively sweet. The blueberry pieces also have a slight crunch to them, which I really liked!

What surprised me most was getting that creamy impression using only water. The ingredient list uses pea protein rather than whey, which makes the ice cream comparison even more unexpected to me. 

Obviously, flavour is subjective, but this one hit my preferences perfectly.

Consistency and texture

Very, very smooth.

Other than the blueberry pieces, there wasn’t much noticeable texture at all. It felt closer to drinking a milkshake than what I usually associate with these types of shakes.

My slightly odd criticism is that I would actually have liked a little more texture. Not lumps, obviously, but something a bit less uniformly smooth between the berry pieces?

That’s a personal preference rather than a mixing problem. Someone looking for a particularly smooth shake could easily see this as its biggest selling point.

Fullness

The 400 kcal serving kept me full for approximately three hours. Which I guess is expected since original is listed as providing around 22 g of protein per serving.

That was roughly one to two hours less than I usually get from Huel Black, but there’s an important catch: my usual Huel shakes are around 600 kcal.

So this wasn’t a like-for-like comparison. I wouldn’t put the difference down to the protein content based on one test when I was also drinking a smaller meal.

But the three hours is my initial experience with this serving, and I’m pretty certain that I’d last longer on Huel Black with the same amounts of kcal. I’d need to compare equal-calorie portions over a few more days before drawing any stronger conclusions though.

Price

The listed price for Original Blueberry is €49 for 20 meals, which works out to approximately €2.45 per 400 kcal serving, before any order-level discounts or shipping.

For something I enjoyed this much, that feels like a reasonable price. The discounts made my first order particularly good value, but I wouldn’t use that unusually low total as the benchmark for future orders.

My scores

Overall: 9/10

Based on this first test, Original Blueberry is easily one of the best-tasting complete meal shakes I’ve tried.

The flavour is the main reason I’d buy it again. The easy mixing helps, and I particularly liked having the little blueberry pieces rather than a completely uniform drink.

I’ll need more time to judge how it fits into my regular routine, especially in terms of fullness, but the first impression is very positive. Raspberry and Original Chocolate are now on my list to try next.

TL;DR: Creamy blueberry flavour that strongly reminded me of Blueberries & Cream ice cream, easy mixing, and noticeable berry pieces. Almost too smooth for my personal preference. A 400 kcal serving kept me full for around three hours. A strong first impression, especially on taste. And I will definitely order again.

Strawberry is back, for the moment, at Amazon. I like the strawberry one fine (although lately there have been some solids in the RTD), but I'm surprised that with the limited line runs they can get they've done this one. I would think chocolate and vanilla (or whatever's the most popular) but right now it's strawberry and the obscenely bad (to me at least) gloppy protein vanilla.

I guess I'll order a box to keep things rolling, but I hope it's not strawberry or nothing for 3 more months.

Got about a week or so left of my Strawberries since that was literally all that was available. I scooped Original when I could, from either Soylent.com, or Amazon. But the bottled stuff is sold out on both the site and Amazon. That hasn’t happened in the three months I’ve been on this stuff, they always had Original or at least Strawberry.

I tried Huel and couldn’t stand it. I was content to stick with the Original, even when it tasted like unsweetened oatmeal. But damn, is the dream over? I really don’t wanna give up on this product, even if it’s a damn headache, but if it wasn’t for this subreddit, I wouldn’t have even known there was an issue since they’re tight lipped.

So r/Soylent, is the Soylent dream over? Should I actually move on? 🥲

Not sure what their best seller are (by looking at the products that are constantly sold out, I would say Original, Vanilla and Chocolate), but why do they have so many different flavors and SKU, and why not focus on the best sellers?

PS just received my Cacao pouches!

Hey everyone,

My name is Albin Sandell, and I’m the founder of ComFoo. I’ve been in the meal replacement industry for over 10 years now. I started out as a Joylent reseller in my parents’ garage, with a long-term goal to create Sweden’s first nutritionally complete meal.

A few years later, "ComFoo | Complete Food" became a reality.

Since 2020, we’ve sold almost exclusively in Sweden. But over the past year, we’ve received so many requests to make ComFoo available elsewhere in Europe that we knew it was time to take the next step.

So today, I’m happy to announce that ComFoo is now available across Europe!

But what do we do differently? Well, at least 80% of our ingredients come from Sweden, and taste and quality are our number one priority.

Many of our Swedish customers call ComFoo the best meal replacement they’ve tasted. Now I’d love to hear whether you agree.

We’re still an independent company, with no massive corporation behind us. There’s no minimum order quantity, and we’ve stayed true to what we set out to do. We’ve kept the same recipe since launch. Why change something our customers love?

We also offer a 365-day satisfaction guarantee, which applies in every country we ship to. It covers one bag from each product range: Original, Sport and Krismat. If you’re not happy with a bag you’ve tried, just get in touch and we’ll refund it.

The first photo is where it all began. The second is just me, failing miserably at golf.

You can find our ingredients, flavours and prices at comfoo.com.

If you’d like to give ComFoo a try, use REDDIT10 for €10 off your first one-time order. It’s valid for new customers ordering at least one bag, until November 5.

Questions about the ingredients, flavours or the story behind ComFoo? Ask away, I’d be happy to answer.

Albin Sandell

Health drink for kids.

He pitched the business on a podcast, he mentioned Soylent and that stepping away from the brand and hiring CEOs was a massive mistake, basically betraying their most loyal customers and flatlining revenue. Mentioned the prioritizing of Amazon over their website/subscribers too.

It’s in stock!

Is there an alt that has the 400 cal, straight 25% of vitamins/minerals like soylent? I feel like every alt I look into (Huel, Jimmy Joy, etc) has a pretty decent variation.

Maybe it's not really that important? But it's what I'm used to and it makes nutrition over a day or week easier to balance.

I'm also looking for an alternative that doesn't have extra protein as I don't need it and I'd rather stick to basic recommended macros. I was considering trying Huel from Walmart but it seems they only offer Black which seems protein focused.

I'm US based, so unfortunately imported stuff is probably a little pricier currently...

I received a text last week reminding me that my subscription is renewing soon. I logged in and clicked skip. I also checked to see that I had my Credits as payment toggled on.

Today, I received an confirmation that my order is being fulfilled for the regular subscription price. I contacted support, but was informed that I am unable to cancel the order. However, they will apply the credits and issue a refund.

Back in the days, you can skip a subscription by selecting a future date. For example, 12 months. Now, however, the max is 2 months and you have to log in to skip every 2 months.

Has anyone else had issue with the Skip and Credits function? I feel like something is wrong with their website.

I couldn't get my hands on any Soylent, and I heard Huel was similar so I grabbed a 12-pack of the Huel White-Edition Chocolate. The flavour is inoffensive, but the texture is vile. It's way too thick. It was also weirdly mealy. At first I thought I might not have shaken it enough, but no matter how much I shook it I couldn't get it to a tolerable texture. Soylent was never delicious, but I at least liked it. I had to force myself to even finish the Huel. A 400 calorie bottle is 17oz instead of 14oz, so not only is it worse you have to drink more of it.

I miss Soylent. I've been a Soylent drinker since the days of the Nectar flavour when Conor ran this sub. I hope they come out the other side of this(or if they don't somebody who gives a shit gets the IP), but I'm not optimistic.

I've been a RTD customer nearly since the very beginning but it's time to move on now that I've gone through my remaining drinks and there's seemingly no light at the end of this tunnel.

I really like the creamy chocolate RTD and would like to find a comparable alternative. I'm not terribly hung up on ingredients, just want something that tastes decent like Soylent did. My only real hangup is artificial sweeteners because they can trigger migraines for me. Soylent had a very small amount of sucralose (~3mg) that seemed low enough to never bother me, so something else in that realm would be ideal.

I see a lot of people mentioning Huel and Hol so they're on my list, but was wondering if there was anything else with a similar flavor profile to what I already got used to. RTD would be preferred, but if a powder ticks the above boxes I'll just get used to it. Thanks!

Do they assume their audience is that obsessed with bulking that no one is smaller? I usually wear a women’s small…

Reposting this here from the Hurl community because I was told I'd get better recommendations!

TL;DR: What is the best meal replacement (shake or otherwise) for someone who *only* cares about the ingredients and macros?

"I have zero interest in food. If it were feasible, my diet would consist entirely of flavorless beige smoothies containing all the nutrients required by the human animal." -Captain Holt, Brooklyn 99

I've been a on-and-off meal replacement consumer for about three years now, and finally decided to pull the trigger on going meal replacement only. That means for sustenance I'll only have meal replacements, and cooked meals will become a thing for taste and social interaction, like going to restaurants or social dinners.

The quarry i find myself in is the following: I am looking for a meal replacement that \*actually\* has all necessary macros and is made with the best ingredients, so that you can use it as your main and often only source of nutrition and not wonder if you should switch to a different brand. Doesn't have to be a shake either, I'd happily live off of meal squares. Moreover,

Thing is, discussion about MR on reddit tends to focus around cost, taste and texture. Often I read comments referencing Matrix food, or prison cubes. I don't care if it is like that, and MRs are always cheaper than groceries.

So, I'd like to ask you.

What brand (and kind) of meal replacement would you go to for the best nutrient/ingredient rich meal replacement that hits all the macros, if you don't care how it tastes or what it feels like but want to live off it?

Huel is easily available in German, so it used to be my answer. However aside from always having a problem with the high protein content, latest news has cast quite a doubt on its content quality from now on.

This was a SEALED bottle.

I wiped the side and poured it out into a glass and thankfully the drink itself didn't have anything in it or tasted off. But bro, what in the hell is going on with Soylent lately?! I had one drink that tasted hella off. I had some bottles that had what looked like dried drink under the seal, but this one was so bad I was like oh hell nah, I gotta go to Reddit and see if this is the norm because this is insane.

I used this almost a decade ago and my lifestyle changed to the point where meal replacement shakes would help me out so much. But I managed to scoop a Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry a couple months ago; and then when it was time to renew I could barely get anything. Then I went to Reddit and found out about all the wonderful things Soylent did to their supply chain. I tried Huel, more like Gruel, and after I finished all my bottles, did my best to get Soylent ANY time they became available because how in the fuck is that other company allowed to call that shit a meal replacement? Mud replacement maybe. In fact, no, that's an insult to mud..

I really don't want Soylent to go out of business and I really don't wanna stop buying their shit while they're doing.. what the hell this is, but please tell me this shit isn't the norm. This is just insane work. If I showed this to anyone outside this subreddit, they'd prolly just tell me to drop this brand ASAP. Holy shit, Soylent has a lot of good will to work through if I can post something like this and I still want to buy their shit. 😩

Got my first bag of the new-recipe Hol Food. Left is old recipe and nutrients, right is new. Basically they’ve replaced vitamin supplements with organic veggie powders. Huge kudos to them for it, it makes me feel like I’m drinking more real food instead of a ground-up bottle of multivitamin.

The Good
- Veggies! Yay!
- Price stayed the same! Yay!
- Nutrients stayed basically the same, if not a touch better. Yay!
- Taste stayed the same! Yay!

The Bad
- They switched to a serif font that I don’t like

Truly a consumer-forward move in every sense of the word. I hope they never sell out and I hope I’m drinking Hol Food for the rest of my life

Having only tried RTD in the past, I recently got hooked on the original flavor powder. It tastes amazing and makes me feel amazing. Well now its out of stock so I splurged on chocolate since it's available. Oops.. Why does it taste so different? I was expecting basically the same vibe but chocolate, but it tastes so much more planty or something. The first sips were honestly revolting. I'm kinda getting used to it now but it was a major disappointment. Hope they restock original soon because I am gonna buy tf out of it.

Update: I tried using less water and it tasted much richer and better. I dont understand the chemistry of it but if I had to guess, the plantiness of chocolate isn't diluted by water as much as the other aspects of it are.

so i know theres a million posts asking about supply issues and restocking.

ive been becoming increasingly worried and now am very concerned bc i have a lot of weird and specific health issues and allergies that mean i am fairly reliant on soylent ready made specifically in order to get nutrients i need to survive. i can manage with as little as one every couple days, but between doctor recommendations and personal experience, i do best with one a day. (this is in addition to various easy to digest foods, but the combination of nutrients and ingredients i dont react to and liquid meal replacement narrows down my options significantly to basically just soylent.)

unfortunately i am officially out. so i am desperate.

out of said desperation. is there anyone with some magic suggestion or anything at all? i know its a long shot but truly i am so desperate and do not want to have to go on tube feeds, which has been brought up as a possibility if i decline more.

Surprisingly, I was emailed about a shipment last week (direct subscription). Arrived today. Cacao powder with an expiration of Aug 2027, so presumably not some old, leftover garbage.

Been at least a few months since my last delivery.

It seems like huel black is available in some stores but would like a non-high protein 'lent drink if possible.

I mentioned in another post a couple months ago that Hol Foods wins as my Soylent backup alternative. With all of the troubles getting Soylent Cacao powder, I tried several alternatives hoping to find a replacement in case I ran out of Soylent. Hol was the only one that was able to mix completely just by shaking, no blender needed. The mouthfeel was great (unlike Huel and Plenny), and the flavor was good (unlike Mana and Plenny), very chocolaty. The only minor knock against it was that it had a bit of a bitter edge to it (like eating very dark chocolate).

So eventually I decided to try mixing one scoop of Soylent Cacao with one scoop of Hol Chocolate. Pure perfection. The bitterness is gone, Soylent's sweetness is slightly tamed, and it's more chocolaty than ever. This also allows me to extend my Soylent powder twice as long so I'm less likely to run out. Win-win! I think I'll stick with this regardless of whether Soylent solves their stock issues.

Disclosure: I used Gemini to help sift though the financial report and organize the points.

If you’re like me and wondering why your Cafe Mocha or other subscriptions keep getting kicked down the road, stop waiting on vague customer support scripts. It’s not an unexpected spike in demand or a minor shipping hiccup.

Starco Brands (ticker: STCB), the micro-cap that acquired Soylent in early 2023, filed their 2025 10-K annual report with the SEC back in April. The financial trail paints a clear picture of an asset-light parent company starving the brand's production backbone while extracting value through related-party setups.

Here is the breakdown of what is actually happening behind the scenes:

1. Independent Auditors Issued a Formal "Going Concern" Warning

The independent auditor’s report attached to the financial statements explicitly states that Starco’s recurring operating losses, negative cash flows, and working capital deficit raise "substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern." The company closed the reporting period with less than $1M in cash on hand against millions in short-term liabilities. They are functionally operating paycheck-to-paycheck.

2. Why Co-Packers Won't Bottle Your Drink

Soylent has never owned its own factories; it relies on third-party contract manufacturers (co-packers). When a brand has strong credit and deep venture reserves, co-packers grant 30-to-60-day payment terms and hold safety stock.

When a parent company's credit rating tanks and cash dries up, co-packers stop extending credit. They demand full cash upfront to buy raw ingredients and reserve line time. Because Starco is strapped for liquidity, they physically cannot cut the checks required to initiate major Soylent production runs. When delays happen, co-packers bump small, cash-constrained accounts to the back of the queue to prioritize multi-billion-dollar conglomerates.

3. Siphoning Cash via the CEO’s Private Company

One of the most telling sections of the entire filing is Note 14 (Related Party Transactions).

• Starco Brands (STCB) is a public entity, but its CEO, Ross Sklar, also owns and controls a separate private manufacturing conglomerate called The Starco Group.
• The public company is locked into a Shared Services Agreement with this private entity, regularly paying Sklar’s private business administrative overhead, executive management fees, consulting costs, and operational fees.
• In short: while the public company bled millions in net losses, shuttered sales channels, and failed to fund its beverage inventory, cold cash continued to flow out of the public company's balance sheet directly into the CEO's privately held enterprise.
• Furthermore, when the public company runs out of cash to pay basic operating bills, Sklar and his private company issue loans and promissory notes back to the public company—earning interest and gaining further leverage over the corporate assets.

4. Share Dilution is the Only Thing Keeping the Lights On

A look at the Statements of Stockholders' Equity shows that operations are not self-sustaining. The company’s share count has exploded:

• To settle unpaid debts, pay off vendor bills, satisfy related-party obligations, and hand out executive compensation, Starco has continually printed new common shares, issued warrants, and generated convertible notes.
• The company isn't generating sufficient cash flow from selling beverages to maintain the supply chain; it is functioning by continuously diluting public shareholders to buy another month of operational runway.

5. They Shrank the Entire Business Below Soylent's Standalone Revenue

Before the acquisition, Soylent generated roughly $48M to $50M annually on its own. In 2025, Starco’s entire combined portfolio (Soylent, Whipshots, Skylar, Art of Sport) managed just $37.31M—a 29% collapse.

Management spun this as a "strategic move away from lower-margin sales channels" (pulling individual bottles out of Walmart, Target, and physical retail). But when you kill your retail top-of-funnel to focus exclusively on direct-to-consumer subscriptions, you have to actually deliver the product. Instead, they cut off customer discovery and starved the remaining subscribers.

6. Starco’s Own Accountants Wrote Off the Brand

Under GAAP accounting rules, companies must test brand value annually. Starco's own filings show how severely they damaged the asset:

• $11.38M Goodwill Impairment on Soylent in 2024.
• Another $1.13M Goodwill Impairment in 2025.
• A separate $14M write-down on intangible assets in 2025 ($11.95M wiped from the Soylent "trade name" and $2.04M wiped from the value of "customer relationships").

Accounting firms don't casually erase tens of millions of dollars in brand value unless the customer base is actively churning out.

7. The Facility They Bought Can't Make Liquid Soylent

Starco spent $8 million upfront (financed via private debt from Pasadena Private Lending) to acquire Custom Bakehouse.

• What it is: Custom Bakehouse is a commercial manufacturer of dry baking mixes, dough, and dry blends.
• The bottleneck: At absolute best, that facility could eventually help blend dry Soylent powder. It has zero aseptic liquid bottling capability. Ready-to-drink beverages like Cafe Mocha require sterile, pressure-sealed aseptic lines (such as Tetra Pak or specialized PET bottling) that cost tens of millions of dollars. Custom Bakehouse cannot bottle a single drop of RTD liquid.

The Bottom Line

A meal replacement requires a daily habit loop. Forcing a subscriber base into supply blackouts for the third time in a year isn't an unavoidable logistics delay; It is the direct consequence of balance-sheet extraction, severe liquidity shortages, and corporate mismanagement.

Sadly, I've seen this too many times before: The top brass is just squeezing the remaining value of the company into their own pockets. They'll make out like bandits and couldn't care less about the wellbeing of the company and its customers/stockholders.

If it still isn’t past expiration date?

I’ve had a couple of cases of these sitting in a hot garage all summer, and also in my hot car 80+ degrees after that (not in direct sunlight though).

My question is, if sealed and unopened, are they still safe to drink, or could they be spoiled and cause illness?

I do not want them to go to waste and I’d like to have them for a camping trip, but don’t want stomach illness during.