Diet Staples

Nutritional yeast is a popular food to add onto or into vegan meals but it can be tricky to know why you’d want to add it in the first place if you are new to vegan and plant-based eating. In

Yes! Smuckers uses fruit pectin instead of an animal based gelatin to help its jelly and fruit spreads congeal. Therefore, Smuckers jelly and jams are vegan. Not sure what the difference is between jelly, jam, preserves and more? Check out

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 –  MaraNatha started with two entrepreneurs in 1982 who distributed dried fruit from California to local natural food stores in Oregon. They started to develop their own products along the way including small batch peanut

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 –  Santa Cruz Organics started back in the early 1970s when founder and nature lover John Battendieri began revitalizing orchards in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He started with natural organic apple juice in 1972 and

Equal Exchange Fairly Traded Organic Baking CocoaEqual Exchange is an employee owned company that aims to improve sustainable partnerships between farmers and consumers. In 1986, the founders of Equal Exchange started with fairly traded coffee in Nicaragua. Today the company

LiveKuna was started by two entrepreneurs, Ecuadorian Carlos Gutierrez and Canadian Santiago Stacey. Carlos and Santiago have a passion for bringing ancestral wholesome foods from small Andes mountain farmers to the worldwide market. The word “Kuna” means “to give” in

Rating: 4.9 out of 5 –  Hello and welcome fellow vegans (and wanna-be vegans). This is going to be my first product review under a new category called “Diet Staples”. Every diet, whether vegan or not, has its staple foods.