Read sourced guides on meal shakes, ingredients, costs, preparation and history. Understand product categories and choose using clear personal criteria.
The difference between a complete meal, protein shake and total diet replacement.
Foodshake is an umbrella term on this website. We separate complete meals from protein shakes so that products with similar purposes can be compared. High protein content alone does not make a complete meal.
A practical order for finding something that fits your day.
Do you need a ready-to-drink product, or can you mix powder with water? Choose format and delivery country first. Unknown shipping means we need a source, not that delivery is available.
Pack price, 400 kcal, shipping and subscriptions without hidden assumptions.
We compare price per 400 kcal. A cheap pack may contain fewer servings or less energy. Pack price and energy content must therefore be considered together. Protein products without a complete meal profile do not receive a comparable meal price.
Practical questions to check for your exact product.
Powder, water and scoop quantities can differ between products and recipes. Adding milk or other ingredients changes the prepared meal’s nutrition and allergens. Catalogue values do not include your additions.
From Soylent’s Silicon Valley experiment to Sweden’s ComFoo and MËTTA. How the meal in a shaker developed into a category with many forms.
Products that let people drink their nutrition existed long before the modern foodshake wave. Abbott dates the introduction of Ensure to 1973. The idea of nutrition in liquid form therefore did not begin with a technology company in the 2010s. These products do not automatically belong to the same category. A nutrition drink with a particular intended use, a diet product and an everyday meal powder may look similar in a glass while differing in formulation and purpose. This history mainly follows the modern wave of nutritionally complete everyday meals.