Your Organic Wholefood Shop

We’ve all been there: it’s 6:00 PM on a Wednesday, you want a proper, healthy dinner, but the idea of peeling ginger, pounding lemongrass, and balancing spices feels like a mountain you’re not ready to climb. Usually, the "quick" option in the UK is a supermarket jar of curry sauce, but those are often loaded with sugar, modified starches, and c...

In the UK, we throw away roughly 6.6 million tonnes of household food every year. A huge portion of this waste happens because of a simple misunderstanding of the dates printed on the packaging. We’ve become a nation that trusts a factory stamp more than our own biological equipment: our eyes, nose, and taste buds. At Whole Food Earth, we want y...

Whether it is the satisfying "snap" of a dark chocolate bar or the way a rich body butter sinks into your skin, you are experiencing the unique molecular physics of cocoa butter. Known botanically as the fat of the Theobroma cacao (literally "Food of the Gods"), cacao butter is one of the most stable and highly prized fats on Earth. At Whole Foo...

Walk into any UK high-street shop today, and you’ll see rows of colourful bottles labelled "Kombucha." It has become the go-to drink for the health-conscious, but few people actually know what it is. Is it a tea? Is it a cider? Is it just fizzy vinegar? At Whole Foods Earth, we like to look at the biology. Kombucha is a fermented tea, but unlike...