Your Organic Wholefood Shop

Nut butter should be one of the simplest foods in the shop: nuts, blended into a jar. Yet walk down the aisle and you will find jars bulked out with palm oil, sweetened with sugar and stiffened with additives. Learning to read the label is the difference between a genuinely good, wholesome nut butter and a processed spread pretending to be one. ...

Walk past the bags of dry, pale chunks and mince labelled TVP and you might have no idea what to do with them. Yet textured vegetable protein is one of the cheapest, most useful and most protein-packed plant foods you can buy. If you have never cooked with it, or you are not quite sure what it even is, here is a clear, honest guide to TVP: what ...

A keto diet is far easier to stick to when your cupboard is working with you rather than against you. The shops are full of processed products stamped with the word keto, but the best low-carb foods are usually the simplest ones: whole, natural ingredients with nothing added. Stock these, and you will always have the makings of a low-carb meal o...

Stand in front of a shelf of salt these days and it can be baffling. Pink, grey, black, fine, coarse, flaky, cheap and expensive, all promising something a little different. The truth is that most salts are chemically very similar, but they vary in crystal size, mineral traces, how they are made and, above all, what they are best used for. Here ...

Those golden flakes of nutritional yeast, or nooch as it is affectionately known, are one of the most useful things you can keep in a plant-based kitchen. With a savoury, cheesy, umami flavour and no dairy at all, they can add depth to all sorts of dishes, if you know how to use them. If you already have a tub and are wondering what to do with i...

Carob has quietly been a favourite in health food shops for decades, often described as a natural alternative to chocolate. But what exactly is it, how does it compare to cocoa, and is it any good? If you have spotted carob powder on the shelf and wondered whether it is worth a try, here is a complete, honest guide to this naturally sweet ingred...

Prunes have something of an old-fashioned reputation, but this humble dried fruit is genuinely one of the more useful things you can keep in the cupboard. Behind the wrinkly appearance sits a fruit that is rich in fibre, naturally sweet, and backed by real science, particularly when it comes to digestion. Here is an evidence-based look at the he...

Most of us think of prunes as something to nibble straight from the bag, and they are lovely that way. But this soft, sweet, dark fruit is a genuinely brilliant cooking ingredient, at home in both sweet and savoury dishes. If your prunes only ever get eaten by the handful, you are missing out. Here is how to make the most of them in the kitchen....