Long-term Supply

We’ve been making healthy food affordable since 1955.

Our shelves are stocked with your health, the health of your family, and the health of the planet in mind and priced so your pocketbook can afford them.Our team of food quality experts reads every label, weeds through the minutiae of labeling regulations, and keeps the concerning stuff, the not-so-good-for-my-family stuff, the fake stuff, the what-in-the-world is that stuff, off our shelves so that you can get your shopping done in a snap, and provide yourself and your family with simply the best. (Now, the only thing you have to do is figure out what to do with all that extra time you’ve saved not having to scourer every label.)

We read the labels, so you don’t have to.

Food quality is not only about what is in the product but about what isn’t.That’s why we have an extensive list of the things that we won’t allow in the foods we sell but are found at other grocery retailers and online.See the list below for the foods and food ingredients we won’t carry because after all,your health is our number one priority.

Grandmothered& Limited Ingredients

As new research becomes available, an ingredient that might not have been considered problematic may now be an ingredient of concern or unacceptable.

Our GMO Policy

Our underlying philosophy is that food should come from real sources and undergo as few modifications as possible. We work rigorously to keep our food as clean and as simple as we can. New items with ingredients that are high-risk of coming from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)must be organic or must be verified as non-GMO. If a company cannot provide confirmation, we will not carry the product.

Food Ingredients We Won’t Carry

2,3-butanedione (aka diacetyl)

Please see "Artificial flavors"for more information.

2,3-heptanedione

Please see "Artificial flavors"for more information.

2,3-hexanedione

Please see "Artificial flavors"for more information.

2,3-pentanedione

Please see "Artificial flavors"for more information.

Ace K

Please see "Artificial sweeteners" for more information.

Acesulfame K

Please see "Artificial sweeteners" for more information.

Acesulfame potassium

Please see "Artificial sweeteners" for more information.

Acetoin (aka acetyl methyl carbinol)

Please see "Artificial flavors"for more information.

Acetyl methyl carbinol (aka acetoin)

Please see "Artificial flavors"for more information.

Acetylated esters of mono- and diglycerides—Grandmothered & Limited

Please see "Chemically modified fats" for more information.

Active Agave™

Even though Active Agave™ has a lower fructose content than traditional agave nectar, all agave is highly processed.

Please see "Agave--Grandmothered & Limited" for more information.

Advantame

Please see "Artificial sweeteners" for more information.

Aerosol sprays with chlorofluorocarbon

• Chlorofluorocarbons, also known as CFCs, destroy the ozone layer that protects the earth from harmful UV radiation.
• Federal regulations, including the Clean Air Act and EPA regulations, have restricted the use of all consumer and most other CFC aerosol products made or sold in the US.
• To protect our ozone layer, we only carry aerosol products that use safer, non-CFC propellants.

Agave—Grandmothered & Limited Ingredient

• The sweetener agave is composed of 75% to 85% free fructose. This is higher than the amount of fructose found in high fructose corn syrup which comes in at around 55% fructose.
• When fructose is absorbed, it goes directly to the liver where it is converted into fat (aka triglycerides). This translates into elevated blood triglycerides (a risk factor for cardiovascular disease), increased visceral fat, and, over time, increases the risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
• Unlike other carbohydrates, fructose does not suppress the production of the hunger hormone ghrelin but still stimulates reward in the brain which leads to excessive consumption.
• Agave syrup (aka nectar) is extracted, heat treated, enzyme treated, refined, clarified, demineralized, deodorized and concentrated. It is highly processed in a manner similar to the processes used for high fructose corn syrup and refined sugar.

Allulose

• Allulose is a rare sugar that only naturally occurs in a few foods in very small amounts. We do not know the impacts the commercially available, manmade version will have on human health and, in particular, the human microbiome, in larger amounts.
• Commercially produced allulose is made through an enzymatic process with the starting materials of corn and sugar beets, both of which are commonly genetically modified. The enzymes used may also be produced from genetically modified microbes.
• Allulose is known to cause bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, and with increasing doses may also cause more extreme symptoms such as nausea, headache, and loss of appetite.

Aluminum ammonium sulfate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Aluminum calcium silicate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Aluminum-containing additives

• Although aluminum is naturally occurring, it has no known physiological role in the human body and is known to be toxic at high levels.
• Aluminum can accumulate in all body tissues, including the brain, and in high concentrations is neurotoxic.
• Aluminum may cause reproductive issues in males and neurological problems in the offspring of females exposed during pregnancy.
• For most people, the major route of exposure to aluminum is through aluminum-based food additives used in processed foods. Luckily, there are multiple, less problematic alternatives to aluminum-based additives.

Aluminum potassium sulfate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Aluminum sodium phosphate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Aluminum sodium sulfate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Aluminum sulfate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Ammonium aluminum sulfate

Please see "Aluminum-containing additives" for more information.

Ammonium chloride

Please see "Flour bleaching agents & chemical dough conditioners" for more information.

Ammonium phosphate (acceptable in beer and hard/spiked seltzer)

Acceptable in beer and hard/spiked seltzer.

Please see "Phosphates" for more information.

Animal-free milk protein

Please see "Lab-grown milk protein" for more information.

Anoxomer

Please see "Artificial preservatives" for more information.

Antibiotic and antifungal food preservatives

• Many important human drugs are at risk of becoming obsolete due to the increasing development of resistance. Because of this, we feel strongly that antibiotics and antifungals should have no place in our food supply since regular consumption of them contributes to this resistance.
• There is evidence to suggest that fungi and bacteria exposed to natamycin and nisin (the antifungal and antibiotic currently approved for use in the food supply) could become resistant.
• Some antibiotic and antifungal preservatives are produced using genetically modified bacteria, but because current US regulations don’t require products produced by genetically modified bacteria to be labeled as GMO, there is no way to know the source of these preservatives.