Whole Foods Market

If this store really wanted to contribute to our wellness, they need a serious overhaul. Let's start with the bakery. All of their baked goods use conventional bleached flour. This means it's covered in glyphosate, bleach, and potassium bromate - this is the same chemical used in pesticides and fire retardant chemical spray. Potassium bromide displaces iodine in the receptor sites making our bodies bromine dominant and iodine deficient and no it doesn't matter how much iodized salt we consume. Next, let's talk about the hot bar. EVERYTHING is made with CANOLA OIL or SUNFLOWER OIL. No, it does not matter if it's organic or expeller pressed - it's a seed oil. If you have not yet learned about how seed oils are terrible and not fit for consumption - please educate yourself. Let's talk about the fresh olive bar - also all in seed oils. Unacceptable. Do you think that in Italy they harvest their olives and then put them in a seed oil? No. Let's talk about what's on their shelves. An absolute seed oil and sugar nightmare. Granola, dried fruit and even trail mix has oil in it. Bags of nuts, crackers, popcorn, veggie burgers, frozen pizza, gluten free items, "vegan" items - you name it - 95% of these foods are NOT FIT for human consumption. All a company like Whole Foods / Amazon needs to do is notify their vendors that they need to take seed oils out of their formulas in the next 365 days and magically - Whole Foods might stand a chance of actually doing something beneficial for our wellness. The next time you buy something here, read the label. And if you are not satisfied, leave a review. We vote with our dollars and can voice our opinions with reviews. This is how we make change and I would love Whole Foods to be the leader of this change because right now, it's mostly Trash Foods.

When I get out of work at the West End or if I'm downtown having to do some errands this is my go-to place to grab something to eat and also to purchase groceries for home. And when I have my women's group meeting at my house Saturday I make sure to always get them something organic and gluten-free and it's 99.9% of the time from Whole Foods.