There are a lot of scams in the bulk rawfoods market!
There is no way for you know exactly how the food was grown, and there's no one you can ask. Since the commercialization of organic foods...the quality has went down. for every dollar you spend in a grocery store on a tomato shipped from far away, the approximate benefit to the farmer who grew the fruit is 9 cents.
The actual cost of the foods are a fraction of what they retail for.
We have dealt with dozens of farmers and tried each of their foods. We have not chosen the farmers based on price. We chose the best quality sources. We could easily sell cheaper by buying cheaper quality but we don't.
Some farmers are better at some things just like some chefs are better at some things. Just because you are buying an organic goji berry doesn't mean it's nutritious. Learn about Brixxe theory and you will see what we mean. One goji berry can have 5 to 10 times as much bioavailability of nutrients as an inferior goji.
It just amazes me how different a goji berry can taste depending on which farm it comes from, and how tender and sweet it is....and compared to the mass-farmed stuff....it's like the difference between irradiated supermarket ground pepper verses whole, fresh, organic pepper.
We also don't recommend buying prepared dehydrated snacks from stores selling them. They are not as fresh as you might think. In the rawfoods business a lot of times, if they are making large batches to sell wholesale to stores they tie in their profits to cutting food costs and creating lower price points.
If you wanted better ingredients in these prepared snacks you would have to pay much more to the
point that the price would be unaffordable to the customer. It would be up to the store who sells to the end user to show a customer why it's more expensive and that would even require even more time and money to pay employees to explain why its better...and then.. no one will buy them because the price is too high.
If the manufactor of a raw food was going to not cut every corner the price would be significantly higher. They would have to throw slighty, partially rancid nuts and seeds away from time to time. They would have to throw herbs that are starting to wilt away instead of putting them into the foods. There is just a lot of corners that I have seen raw chefs do and I do not like it. It is not that they are trying to lie or get away with something...it's that the foods are expensive and they cannot afford to throw foods away that are less than 100% optimum.
Most of the bulk foods today are grown from huge agribusiness. We buy ours from local farmers who do not sell to huge corporate chains. We support local farmers.
There is a lot to be said for the ingenuity of direct supply. In an era when food is subject to issues of safety, health, and morality, it's comforting for us to know exactly where our next meal comes from, who grew it, who prepared it, the cleanliness and environment it was prepared in, and that the people involved cared for the food every step of the way and not just an employee who can't wait till the minute he or she gets off work. If we buy from a distributor we have lots of questions before we every buy from them. We get calls every day from rawfood distributors and turn about 99% of them down. They are just out to make a dollar on us and that is not going to happen unless they have a good product. We always sample any product or foods before we buy. And it is sampled by all of our staff...not just the owner or one or two people. If one person in our company doesn't like a food we don't sell it. We all work together and are not going to sell a product we all don't believe in. There are too many choices to just settle for something inferior.
Remember, the food, depending on how it's grown and prepared, literally affects our day-to-day experience of the world as beautiful, bland, or ugly!
Pricing on all living foods:
We have chosen not to advertise our pricing on our raw living foods due to complaints from other retailers. . We are not in the foods business. We do not like
how the living foods movement is expanding into the most profitable business. It is very hard for people to buy food these days. Even as the owner of the my store, I still go to grocery stores and get the pineapple cores and watermellon rinds and even the cantoulope seeds they throw away. I am all for getting free food. I also go to mexican restaurants and get the avocado pits before they throw them away. I also go to juice bars and get the pulp at the end of the day. I use the pulp in many raw dehyrdated recipes including mock tuna salad and raw carrot cake and raw cookies. I put pineapple cores with it and I can make the most wonderful recipes practically free. I use my 3HP+ blender to make cantoulope seed milk. It's free and it's the sweetest seed milk and so nutritious...and it's free!
The stores also throw out any bruised or slightly damaged or molded fruit or vegatbles in the garbage. I have seen cherymoyas that are over $5 each just thrown in the garbage just because it was getting over ripe. I see golden delicious apples with bruises on them thrown in the trash too. There are trash cans in the produce section...you just have to look for them. The produce employees are told to throw out anything that does not look sellable. What bothers me is...the grocery store is not allowed to donate the produce or "tell" someone its ok for them to have it because they can get sued. There was a durian that cracked open which must have been dropped on the floor and I asked the manager if I could have it since it was damaged. They told me they ar required to throw all damaged food in the garbage. They threw it away before they would give it to me. This happens all the time. Now I just grab it myself from the garbage. (The garbage bags are clean. The only thing in them are produce. It's not the garbage cans that everyone throws trash in). Once it's in the trash and I picked it out they really can't say anything to me. I go to the farmer's market usually on Sunday evenings and you would not believe how much produce is thrown away. Now, I pretty much know the employees and they call me when they have a big bag of slighty damaged produce and I am there in about 10 minutes!! I always give them a little gratuity and everyone is happy!
I hate wasting food and I usually have a 20% off coupon and I buy all my groceries with my coupons. Now that I sell foods, I now have total control over the pricing on the foods I sell. We buy our foods in 2,000 pound containers thanks to the investors that have helped us. I am the last person that is going to make organic raw foods unaffordable. Because our prices are cheaper you might think they are lower quality. Our foods are the highest quality but we are bypassing the middlemen- the stores, the distributor who buys from the farmer, and even us. The farmers still make the same profit that they normally would when they sell in bulk to us.
$100 minimum order on our bulk foods page.
Email us for our wholesale price sheet.
Note: If you buy from us we respectfully ask you not to buy our foods for resale purposes. Our goal is to help the consumers...not resell to a business who is going to do just the thing we are trying to avoid. Our prices are low for the consumer...not to be re-sold.

Cacao Drink - This drink is a great way to start the day. An excellent alternative to coffee, cacao is brimming with antioxidants and energy. Try your own variation by adding vanilla, cinnamon or other superfoods - ice in summer and warm chocolate in winter. (Serves 1 to 4 people.)
3 tbsp. Cacao Nibs
1 tbsp. Cacao Powder
3 tbsp. Hempseed
2 tbsp. Artisana Coconut Butter
1 tbsp. Maca Powder
3 to 4 cups water (unsweetened fresh coconut water is the best, if available)
2 - 3 tbsp. Agave Nectar, or Manuka Honey, or Honey Dew Honey (my personal favorite)
Blend all the ingredients well. Sprinkle a few nibs to float on the top of each glass. Enjoy.

Raw Organic WoW Chocolate
1 cup melted Coconut Oil
¼ cup Cacao Butter
1 cup Cacao Powder
¼ cup Tahini
¼ cup Cashew Butter
¼ cup (or to taste ) Agave Nectar, Honey Dew or Manuka Honey
Pinch of Himalayan salt
Melt the coconut oil in a glass bowl set in hot water or at room temperature over 80 F. Grate in the cacao butter and stir until melted. Stir in the cacao powder. You can soften the nut butters in the same hot water and then fork blend them into the mix. Mix all the ingredients well.
Pour spoonfuls of this liquid chocolate on slices of fresh organic pineapple (or dip whole strawberries into it) and harden in the refrigerator. Or as an alternative, pour onto a teflex sheet in a glass pan to about ¼ to ½ inch thick. Add thin slices of a favorite fruit like straw berries or whole blueberries plus crumbled macadamia nuts or walnuts. Refrigerate for an hour, then peel off teflex and bite into the Best Chocolate you have ever tasted!

Cacao Coconut Candy
Empty the contents of an 8 oz jar of coconut butter into a mixing bowl. Mix in ¼ cup of cacao nibs and ¼ cup of Agave Nectar. Mix well. Spread out in a glass pan, score to the desired size pieces and refrigerate. Remove when hard and enjoy. You can also add mint, goji berries or other favorites.

Coconut Goji Fudge
½ cup Wild Crafted Goji Berries, chopped in a food processor
2 cups Artisana Coconut Butter
¼ cup (or to taste) Agave Nectar, Honey Dew or Manuka Honey
Mix thoroughly, then chill until the fudge sets.

Raw Hummus
Soak 1 cup Raw Organic Almonds overnight, drain and rinse well
1 cup Artisana Tahini
½ medium onion, chopped
1 clove garlic
1 lemon, juiced
Shake of Himalayan salt
Put all the ingredients in a good blender (like a Vitamix) with just a little water, only adding the minimum amount of water needed to blend it into a smooth medium-thick paste.

Anyaa's Recipe for Raw Chocolate Smoothie
1 Tblsp Cacao Nibs (ground in coffee grinder)
1 Tbsp Flax seeds (ground in a coffee grinder)
2 Tblsp Raw Hemp Seed
1 Tblsp Maca
1 Tblsp. Cacao Powder
1 Tbsp green powder like VitaMineral Greens
(ALL THE ABOVE INGREDIENTS CAN BE MIXED TOGETHER IN A CONTAINER IN LARGER AMOUNTS AND REFRIGERATED for future use-this mix also travels well)
1 oz sweetener agave or active NZ honey or to taste
1 Tblsp organic raw Coconut Butter or coconut oil (melted in a bowl of hot water)
1 cup coconut water. (Coconut milk kefir and/or milk kefir or water)
1 heaping Tbsp goji berries plus a little of the soak water
½ banana and ½ pear or a few strawberries or other fruit combo in season.
Blend and enjoy!

NO BEAN HUMMUS
2 medium zucchini, chopped
2-5 garlic cloves
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup lemon juice
1-2 tsp. Himalayan sea salt
1/4 tsp. cayenne
1 1/2 tsp. paprika
Blend above ingredients unitl smooth. Add 3/4 cup Hemp Seed. Blend again until smooth. Add 3/4 cup Tahini and
blend again. Garnish with parsley and paprika. Serve with celery sticks, cucumber slices or what ever you desire!
Free one on one 15 minute consultation to anyone who wants to learn how to make these wonderful foods.
We will teach you how to make raw living foods from your juicer, blender, and dehydrator.
Ask how to make raw living cookie dough from a single or dual auger juicer. (Make raw oatmeal rasin cookies)
Ask how to make raw living fudge brownies from a 3HP blender. (These are the best I have ever eaten)
You will learn why you shouldn't buy prepared raw dehydrated foods from stores and how they lose their nutrition the longer they sit on the shelf (I've seen even rancid nuts in many of the raw snacks on the market). I have bought raw trail mixes and soaked them and just to see if the almonds and other seeds would sink... but no... they floated.... they were dead even though they claim them to be raw. Just becuase it says raw and organic doesn't mean it's still living. This makes me more angry than someone trying to sell a juicer to someone who doesn't need it.
Also... you can make 1/4 lb of cookies that cost $4.50 in most stores for pennies if you do it yourself. I spend one evening a week in the kitchen. If you are organized and know the right process on how to organize your time in the kitchen you can be in an out in one evening and you don't have to spend every day in the kitchen. There IS an art to saving time and money in the kitchen. Ask for Angela. She is the one who comes up with many of the recipes. We have other rawfood chefs available if she is not in. Ask to speak to a rawfood chef or coach and they will help you. Call 1-800-578-6988 anytime from 8am till midnight 7 days a week...even on holidays!