better for you, better for the planet
True Food was founded on a commitment to promote access to organic food to people at affordable prices. We believe that organic production supports a healthier planet and healthier people and provides the highest standards of food production, including animal welfare.
Our policy is to support organic growing and production– whether that is a local grower like Tolhurst on the Hardwick Estate in South Oxfordshire; one of the many UK growers that supply Langridge, our main organic fruit and vegetable supplier; the Italian growers that supply the tomatoes and beans for our tinned products; or the international wine growers supplying Vintage Roots.
Most of our suppliers are certified as organic by one of the major certification organisations like the Soil Association. However, some of our smaller local suppliers are not certified by one of the recognised bodies and so cannot be labelled as organic. In most cases these suppliers are well known to us, allowing us a better understanding of the principles and practices they use in their production process.
For example, Greenbroom is a collective which grows produce on the Hardwick estate; it is committed to unusually strict principles which go beyond organic certification bodies’ requirements. They have been a trusted True Food supplier for a number of years.
Any non-organic foods that we sell are where:
• a producer is known by True Food not to use pesticides or artificial fertilisers and cares for the land/animals according to organic principles but is not certified for clear and understandable reasons which have been provided to us
• there is no organic alternative available to us, and the product has a specific purpose in support of use of our other organic products, e.g. dried yeast
• we have historically sold a product and there is continued high customer demand for it, e.g. loose nutritional yeast.
Any non-organic products are labelled. For more information please get in touch or speak to a member of staff in-store.
