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“Heavy Metals in Huel” by Kashvi Mulchandani 🔹


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This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. 

Commenting and feedback guidelines:

  1. This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome.
  2. This is a Forum post that I wouldn't have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual)

Thank you to @Jian Xin Lim 🔸 for encouraging me to post this as part of Draft Amnesty Week.

Introduction

So, today I heard about the Consumer Reports study to do with lead in Huel (and other drinks). And I was pretty concerned about this as I drink it regularly, so spent most of today reading and discussing this. However I am a full time student, co-chair of [...]

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Outline:

(00:17) Introduction

(00:50) Safety thresholds of heavy metals

(01:38) Huel tests and stats vs CR

(01:43) Consumer Reports

(03:33) Huel

(04:31) Chocolate

(05:09) Lead levels in Fruit and Veg

(07:05) Conclusion

(07:27) Further conclusions:

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First published:

October 15th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HLbATPd5GcQSEkndG/heavy-metals-in-huel

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