Blender Babes Favorite 40 Natural & Organic Products Companies

2014 Natural & Organic Products Health Expo

Blender Babes’ Natural & Organic Products Company Favorites. We met these AMAZING companies at the 2014 Natural Products Health Expo, and we wanted to share our Top 40 FAVORITES with you!

Top 40 Natural and Organic Products

Stand Out Products: Where do we begin?! Of course we love and use their Vega One Nutritional Shake in many of our smoothie recipes. We are also HUGE fans of their Omega/Antioxidant blend, tossing a tablespoon into our smoothies and thanks to Brendan Brazier’s recommendation – now our salad dressings! We also can’t live without the Maca Chocolate!!! Plus, at the show we got to try some new Vega Bars that are just now being released to the public. Sooooo good! And exciting! We CAN HARDLY WAIT to share with our community with a fun GIVEAWAY!!

Why We Love Them: Big Tree Farms is the second organic product company we want to highlight. They work directly with more than 14,000 organic farmers who create sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families. They pay fair-trade premiums, resulting in an income increase of 250 percent and the world’s most sustainable sweetener – organic coconut sugar.

Stand Out Products: Coconut Sugar and their new Coco Hydro. With Coco Hydro you just add water, to create less expensive coconut water, anytime you want it. The Blender Babes team was coming down with a cold recently, out of bottled coconut water, and thankfully had some sample packets from the show! HOORAY for this new way to access and enjoy coconut water! 🙂

Why we Love Them: Navitas Naturals is an organic products company that specializes in SUPER FOODS that holds its processing facility and all of its products to a certified organic standard.

Stand Out Products: CHIA SEED Powder and their new CACAO GOJI Snack.  Navitas Naturals offers an exciting new way to enjoy chia seeds – in a sprouted, finely milled powder! The chia seed’s nutritional benefits are even better enhanced by the process of sprouting. This germination of the seeds increases the nutritional profile and enzyme content and allows the food to become more easily digested and assimilated within the body. Whether on the trail or at your desk, Cacao Goji Power Snacks provide you with pure plant energy that can power you through your day. Cacao keeps you feeling energized and boosts your mood while sweet goji berries give you antioxidant protection and important amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.

Why We Love Them: Wholesome Sweeteners is an organic products company that is committed to providing the most delicious fairtrade-certified, organic, natural and non-GMO project verified sweeteners sourced from ethically and environmentally responsible growers and manufacturers.

Stand Out Products: Wholesome Sweeteners ORGANIC STEVIA is the perfect natural replacement for artificial sweeteners. The company’s Organic Stevia is great in beverages or sprinkled over cereal and fruit. It is a multi-purpose natural sweetener that is sweeter than sugar, so less is more! It is also calorie-free and low glycemic, which makes it perfect for those managing calories and blood sugar levels. Organic Stevia has no artificial fillers and is certified organic.

 Why We Love Them: Traveling the world year-round to bring you only the most nourishing heirloom superfoods emerging from indigenous cultures and unspoiled ecosystems, Essential Living Foods is an organic products company dedicated to fair, ethical, and holistic business practices with vendors, customers, and investors. It is committed to maintaining a healthy, rewarding and values-driven work environment for employees and partners.

 Why We Love Them:  Sambazon is an organic products company that uses the worlds finest Amazon Superfoods™ to satisfy your mind, body, and spirit. The culmination of superfoods like acai, acerola, guaraná, and yerba mate are known to be some of the most potent and pure fruits and botanicals on the planet.

Why We Love Them: YES TO products work because they never compromise. Its products are always at least 95 percent natural, free of parabens, petroleum, phthalates and SLS, and made with recyclable materials.

 

Stand Out Products: Flawless MATTE FOUNDATION and the Organic SOY-INFUSED MASCARA. A seamless pressed powder can be used as a coverage foundation or finishing powder. The Flawless Matte is a mineral-based foundation that gives smooth finish to the skin without sacrificing its natural beauty. The organic, soy-fortified mascara separates, curls, strengthens, and nourishes your lashes all at the same time. Inspired by the roaring 20s’ fluttering lashes, its panoramic, fan-out effect for your lashes will make hearts flutter.

Why We Love Them: At Pacific, they believe in celebrating the natural goodness of food. That’s why they use real, simple ingredients, and not too many of them. The company verifies the origin of every organic ingredient it uses in its Certified to the Source program, then prepares everything for you using time-honored cooking methods. 

Stand Out Products: ALL NATURAL HEMP VANILLA is lightly sweetened with brown rice syrup, making it smooth and creamy with a nutty flavor. Made from the hemp seed, it’s a great source of plant-based nutrition including Omega 3 and 6 and essential amino acids. It’s suitable for vegetarians, vegans, those who are looking to reduce their sodium intake as well as those who are eating gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and wheat-free.

Why We Love Them: All of Suja’s juices are certified organic, non-GMO & Kosher and are processed using cold pressure (also known as High Pressure Processing or HPP) to kill harmful bacteria while preserving nutrition and taste. With a wide range of cold-pressured organic offerings, Suja™ is an organic products company that has a juice for every lifestyle.

Stand Out Products: Veg out with TWELVE ESSENTIALS. This 16 oz. bottle is perfect for anyone looking to load up on alkalizing greens. Not only is it USDA Certified Organic, butwe’re also impressed that it’s Non-GMO Project-Verified. That, coupled with the fact that it’s vegan, kosher-certified, dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, and without any added sweeteners, make these smoothies bottled purity. Drinking Suja products is also good for the planet; the company’s line of ELEMENTS smoothies raises money for the Suja Elements Cause Collective, which aims to bring greater awareness and assistance to the visions and missions of important causes.

Why We Love Them: Pacifica skincare and color is formulated without animal testing, animal ingredients, FD&C color, phthalates, parabens, sulfates, propylene glycol, benzene, mineral oil, petroleum, peanut oil, triclosan, or any other ingredient you do not want on your skin. Fragrances brook Harvey-Taylor personally develops all of the scents using the highest quality ingredients including essential and natural oils from all over the world to create organic products company Pacifica’s proprietary perfume blends.

Stand Out Products: Kona Coffee and Sugar detox WHOLE BODY SCRUB and their ROLL-ON PERFUMES.  A wake-up call for dull, tired skin, the innovative and effective Kona Coffee and Sugar Whole Body Scrub deeply nourishes, tones, and brightens as it removes dead skin cells, preparing skin for maximum moisture absorption and even color distribution. With super-caffeinated benefits, Kona coffee improves the appearance of skin texture as it stimulates. Fun, fresh, and fantastic, Pacifica Perfume Roll-On is made with natural, denatured alcohol and Pacifica’s signature fragrance blends with essential and natural oils. The scent is classic and elegant with Bulgarian rose, subtle violet, myrrh, and delicate fruit. 

 Why We Love Them: Omica Organics’ primary objective as an organic products company is to create natural, bioavailable products that strive to preserve the nutritive value and vitality of every ingredient.

Stand Out Products: The Green Coffee Bean & TURMERIC CAPSULES and their Organic LIQUID STEVIA VANILLA. High-potency coffee beans and organic turmeric are processed using the unique TruExtract ™ extraction method, allowing more of the active ingredients to remain intact and yielding highly potent extracts that combine to deliver superior protection against oxidative stress. Omica Organics’ Liquid Stevia™ is a naturally highly-concentrated direct extract. Created using the revolutionary TruExtract™ proprietary production method, this un-reconstituted Stevia Extract is unlike other liquid stevia products that are reconstituted from dehydrated stevia. The result is an aromatic, dynamic sweetness without the bitterness associated with other stevia products.

Why We Love Them: E&S is a vegetarian, organic products company, which means that all foods throughout their family of brands contain no ingredients derived from meat, fowl, or fish. Most of its items are also suitable for vegans.

Stand Out Products: Their Organic MANGOSTEEN and their Tamari Seaweed BROWN RICE SNAPS®. The best thing about these two products is that their ingredients are whole, natural, organic, and most importantly, vegetarian. Ingredients in the Organic Mangosteen include water, organic mangosteen, organic evaporated cane juice, and citric acid. The Brown Rice Snaps contain only whole grain brown rice, tamari (water, soybeans, rice, salt), and seaweed (nori).

Stand Out Products: The Perfect ALMOND ACAI BAR and their Perfect PEANUT BUTTER BAR. The Perfect Almond ACAI Bar has great almond taste, with fewer calories. Perfect Foods blended creamy organic almond butter and organic honey, with organic acai, naturally crisp puffed rice, and 20 expertly-hidden whole foods. With 35 percent fewer calories, less was never so much more. Peanut Butter is THE ORIGINAL bar that started it all with creamy peanut butter and sweet organic honey, loaded with more than 20 whole foods.

 Why We Love Them: Owl’s Brew is an organic products company that offers a tea crafted for cocktails. Brew Lab Tea is committed to creating tea blends that are as beneficial to the body as they are delicious. They use only whole fruits and spices in all looseleaf natural teas – this way, its clients rest assured that they are getting real ginger, blueberries, or coconut with every sip. Brew Lab’s tea cocktails – a delicious blend of tea with liquor – are flavorful reinventions of classic and contemporary cocktails and have been featured at high-profile events ranging from charity dinners to movie premieres. Visit the Where to Find Us page on the company’s site for locations where the tea blends are sold.

 Why We Love Them: COCOZIA is a new coconut water kid on the block. It’s another organic products company that provides natural hydration from Mother Nature herself. Unlike commercially produced drinks, COCOZIA is fat-free and contains no processed ingredients of any kind. It is 100 percent organic and so good for you! COCOZIA contains fresh, pure water from inside a young green coconut. It’s a clear, naturally sweet liquid that has just 70 calories. Make COCOZIA your go-to answer when you want easy-to-drink hydration, coupled with a natural abundance of potassium and magnesium, as well as other electrolytes. You’ll go nuts for the great taste of Cocozia Coconut Water.

Why We Love Them: America’s #1 Yogurt. CHOBANI is an organic products company that offers its Greek Yogurt with more protein per serving than regular yogurt using only natural ingredients with no preservatives, artificial flavors, or sweeteners. The yogurt is also made with milk from cows not treated with artificial growth hormones. CHOBANI’s yogurts are both kosher-friendly and vegetarian friendly.

 Stand Out Products: BLENDED BLUEBERRY and ALMOND COCO LOCO. The ingredients used in the Almond COCO LOCO are lowfat yogurt (cultured pasteurized nonfat milk), live and active cultures (S. Thermophilus, L. Bulgaricus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus and L. Casei), evaporated cane juice, almonds, coconut, sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa powder, honey, natural flavors, pectin, locust bean gum, salt, cocoa butter, and guar gum.

 Why We Love Them: TruVibe is an organic super food products company with a message. Their super foods are 100 percent certified organic, kosher, non-GMO, gluten-free, and vegan. TruVibe is a new kid on the block, but we see a bright future ahead of them. Who doesn’t want to “Live Your Dream” or be “Creative” with their life… or their food?! 🙂

Why we Love Them: Acure Organics is a family-owned and operated organic products company founded on sustainable principles that enable the highest quality fair-trade, natural, and certified organic personal care products. The company’s products are created with great care and are a reflection of its family and company values. Each of its products is free from animal testing, parabens, sulfates, phthalates, synthetic fragrances, harmful preservatives, and artificial colors.

Stand Out Products: MARULA OIL and their seriously FIRMING FACIAL SERUM. Their Marula is 100 percent pure, wildcrafted without pesticides, cold-pressed, and unrefined. The Marula project provides economic empowerment to the South African women who harvest and process the oil. When using the serum, you will experience concentrated and targeted results as rich antioxidants and nutrients revitalize the skin. Certified organic argan oil restores moisture to the skin’s lipid layer. Borage oil soothes inflammation, and cranberry works to neutralize free radicals for firmer, glowing skin.

 Why we Love Them: However you use it, you are sure to love the great taste and all-natural sweetness of GloryBee Honey. Glory Bee is an organic products company, and most of the honey varieties come from the Pacific Northwest and are produced by small local beekeepers. The imported organic honey is purchased from cooperatives of small beekeepers who prioritize the humane treatment of their bees and the quality of their honey.

Stand Out Products: Vegetarian BEE POLLEN CAPSULE and their PROPOLIS EXTRACT. Bee pollen contains the vitamins, minerals, amino acids (proteins), enzymes, and fatty acids needed for the human body–some call it nature’s perfect food. Scientists have reported that bee pollen has more protein than beef per serving. Bee pollen has been used to treat prostatitis and cancer, reduce LDL cholesterol, relieve airborne pollen allergies, and enhance athletic performance. Their Propolis Extract is made with 100 percent pure propolis. You can use this extract as an additive in smoothies, to mix with honey, or by taking it by itself for a rapidly-absorbed propolis boost. This extract is alcohol-free.

Why We Love Them: Nud Fud (pronounced ) is an organic products company that produces organic, raw, vegan, and gluten-free snack foods by using only the finest organic whole food ingredients. Their products are hand-made in small batches with integrity and care by soaking seeds in filtered water to increase ease of digestion. Nud Fud snacks are dehydrated at low

temperatures (less than 118F) to maintain the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and nutritive qualities of its ingredients.

 Why We Love Them: Derived from nuts and other natural ingredients, Neat is an organic products company that offers easy-to-make, great tasting replacement for ground beef. Even the choosiest meat-eater will love this healthy and quick way to serve your family’s favorite dishes.

 Why We Love Them: Homegrown Organic Farms is an organic products company that represents upwards of forty different organic growers throughout the states of California and Oregon. HGO Farms takes great pride in being able to present their organic produce to the marketplace while developing a relationship between the consumers and the growers of organic local produce.

Stand Out Growers: Father and son team Jim and Greg Haury of Haury Family Farms near Visalia, California, are second- and third-generation fruit farmers who take their storied family business seriously and to heart. It’s farms like theirs that make Homegrown Organic Farms one of the top 40 Companies of 2014.

Stand Out Products: ORGANIC SUPER TEAS and INFUSED COCONUT OILS. Just two or three pumps of Primal Essence Super Tea concentrate into hot or cold liquid yields the perfect cup (or glass) of tea, loaded with robust flavor and a full complement of precious phyto-nutrients and antioxidants. Primal Essence Infused Coconut Oils help create meals that sing with exceptional natural flavor.

 Why we Love Them: #MPWR is the first and only Certified USDA Organic products company that offers a skin care program designed for teens. It is the beginning of a skin care journey. This line has been formulated with care and consideration for the unique characteristics of teen skin. Made with only the finest certified organic ingredients available, these products are designed to keep teen skin clean, hydrated, and blemish-free. 

Stand Out Products: CHOCOLATE PEANUT BAR and their APPLE PECAN BAR. The Two Degrees Chocolate Peanut bar is loaded with crunchy peanuts, bittersweet vegan chocolate chips and blended with chunky peanut butter. Juicy raisins and just a touch of sea salt make it seductively sweet and savory, for the perfect snack any time of day or night. The Two Degrees Apple Pecan bar is a delicious combination of dried apples, pecans, and the company’s heritage grains, quinoa, chia, and millet.

 

Stand Out Products: COOKIE DOUGH and their FETTUCCINI. Cappello’s has teamed up with Primal Palate to bring to you the world’s finest gluten-free, grain-free, chocolate chip cookie dough. Containing only the highest quality ingredients, this delicious, nutrient-dense, low-glycemic, Paleo-friendly cookie dough may invoke feelings of deep nostalgic bliss; savor it raw, mix it in ice cream, or simply cut and bake. Each roll makes 13 cookies. Cappello’s fresh, gluten-free, grain-free fettuccine is carefully hand-crafted to achieve a texture and taste that is unrivaled among traditional pastas. Low on the glycemic index and made primarily from almond flour and egg, Cappello’s fettuccine has a deliciously rich, buttery flavor, and silky consistency.

 Why We Love Them: Natural Decadence is an organic products company that offers a line of baked goods that are made without gluten, eggs, dairy, or nuts. Some of their products are also made without soy, because the company understands the need for naturally decadent foods that are made to suit many different diets. Its product line includes pies, cookies, graham crackers, and shortbreads – delicious desserts that the whole family will love.

Stand Out Products: CITRUS ZEST SHORTBREAD and their CHOCOLATE CREAM-LESS PIE. Their shortbread has notes of lemon and orange as they use fresh citrus to make it extra zesty, and it’s GLUTEN-FREE, EGG-FREE, DAIRY-FREE, NUT-FREE, VEGAN, SOY-FREE, CORN-FREE. At Natural Decadence they make a delicious gluten-free graham cracker, that they transform into a naturally decadent homemade graham cracker pie crust.  They use this same signature crust for all of their pies, each filled with a rich non-dairy cream filling.

Why We Love Them: Meyer’s Clean Day is yet another outstanding organic products company that offers a collection of household products made with essential oils from flowers and herbs that smell nice, but really pack a punch against daily dirt and grime. Their garden-fresh scents include lavender, lemon verbena, basil, geranium and many others. All are earth-friendly, cruelty-free, and not tested on animals.

Stand Out Products: Meyer’s CLEAN DAY LAUNDRY DETERGENT. Gentle on fabric, powerful on dirt and grime, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day laundry products are made with natural essential oils. Now, you can clean and freshen clothes without the use of phosphates.

 

Why We Love Them: At this incredible organic products company, they have two simple goals: bake wholesome, great tasting bread and inspire healthier living through healthier choices. To help achieve its goals, the company makes bread the way they believe it should be – as simple, organic, and delicious as possible. Made with sprouted, organic whole grains, Silver Hills breads and bagels are loaded with fiber, protein, and fantastic flavor. They use pure, natural ingredients and keep out anything we can’t pronounce.

Why We Love Them: Once Again is an organic products company and a natural nut butter manufacturer and nut ingredient supplier in the small rural town of Rochester,

New York. It is employee-owned and operated, and its team is dedicated to supporting organic and sustainable farming practices that are a great, healthier alternative.

Stand Out Products: Once again RAW Crunchy ALMOND BUTTER and Once Again Organic CASHEW BUTTER. Once Again Nut Butter is milled with only the finest organic almonds and cashews available. It is raw organic and gluten-free.

 

 Why we Love Them: Since 1978, Bob’s Red Mill is an organic products company that has been bringing us wholesome, quality foods as nature intended, by using time-honored techniques like grinding whole grains in a traditional stone mill at cool temperatures, locking in freshness and preserving quality for us to enjoy. Milling, packaging, and distribution takes place all under one roof, located in Milwaukie, Ore., and they’ve become one of the largest lines of organic, whole grain foods in the country. All of their products are organic and GMO-free, and they also offer gluten-free products too! 

Why we Love Them: Simplicity, sustainability, integrity make up this organic product company’s vision for its products. This is what One Degree Organics is all about while bringing you all organic cereal, bread, flour, and seeds. Family-operated, their standard of putting you at “one degree of separation from your food” restores honesty to the food chain, allowing us to know the true source of each ingredient with their “Ingredient Truth” feature. Using their free mobile app or by visiting their webpage, simply enter or scan a QR code and alphanumeric code provided on each package, and you will instantly learn where each ingredient came from, and be transported to the websites of the farms where these ingredients began their truths!

 

Why we Love Them: Blender Bottle brought us the world’s #1 best-selling shaker cup, making it convenient to take our nutrition shakes with us on the go. They also make a sportmixer for the active lifestyle, and stacking containers to carry powders, vitamins, supplements, snacks, and more. All products are BPA-, Phthalate-, and lead-free, and are top-rack dishwasher safe. Their patented products have revolutionized nutrition on the go.

 Stand Out Products: BlenderBottle® COMBO PACKS combine best-selling BlenderBottles with the GoStak™ supplement container system for a giftable, portable, versatile nutrition system. You can choose from the Classic or SportMixer bottles.

Stand Out Product: In addition to its ORIGINAL recipe, Batter World is coming out with two new recipes: MULTIGRAIN and GLUTEN-FREE. Now even those on a regulated diet can save time in prep and clean-up while enjoying a natural, holistic way to eat an old favorite.

Why We Love Them: The best way to raise a “foodie” is to set her up with the tastiest variety of foods right from the start. That’s where organic products company Plum Organics comes in: They’re here to deliver the goodness and giggles of great tasting food, one yum-filled bite at a time. Each of their recipes combines unique, flavorful, and wholesome ingredients that are perfectly balanced to deliver a nutritious and delicious bite. With minimal processing and the purest ingredients they can find, Plum products retain the highest nutrition and all the natural taste that even the smallest foodies deserve.

Stand Out Product: JUST FRUIT is Plum’s stage-1 baby food line of 100 percent fruit blends that are perfect for introducing first foods to your budding eater. It’s made with the purest flavors from real fruit. Using only organic fruit and nothing else, the gently cooked meals are naturally preserved in a convenient, resealable pouch that’s perfect for flexible portions. Booming baby food company also prides itself in using 100 percent BPA-free packaging and a child-safe recyclable cap for baby food that is not only unsweetened, unsalted, with no artificial ingredients, but also kosher-friendly. But for many parents the most important part will be the convenient, resealable, portable feeding pouch.

 Why We Love Them: Diane’s Sweet Heat is an organic products company that is a family-owned habanero jam maker that turned up the heat on a family tradition to to become an award-winning jam-maker in Humboldt, Calif. Its jams are made in small quantities in order to control quality, integrity, and flavor, using no artificial flavors or colors.