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Check out 10 health and wellness shops to choose from!
By: Ursula Pertez | July 30, 2020
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Running low on nutritious food? Take Root and nine other shops can have them delivered straight to your doorstep!
Image: Take Root Facebook Page
A vaccine for COVID-19 hasn’t been discovered yet, but you can lessen your risk of contracting the virus by boosting your immune system. Besides doing physical activities and exercising, adjusting your lifestyle and eating healthy food are also critical components of improving your immune response. Thankfully, the health and wellness shops below offer the fresh and nutritious products you need to keep yourself healthy. The best part? They deliver straight to your home! Read on to see 10 health and wellness shops to choose from!
1. Healthy Options
How to order: Order through https://shop.healthyoptions.com.ph/
Payment options: Mastercard or VISA debit cards, and credit cards
Healthy Options was established in 1995 with a mission to promote a healthy and eco-friendly lifestyle in the Philippines.
Image: Healthy Options Website
A staple for health-conscious folks, Healthy Options stays true to its name by providing the healthiest choices for an all-natural healthy lifestyle that does not harm the Earth. Their range of products are cruelty-free and environment-friendly and also support sustainable farming.
Each of their grocery items are free from preservatives and additives. In addition, their line of supplements are made with premium ingredients, and their beauty essentials and skin care products are plant-based. In addition to these, you can have basic essentials, frozen goods, baked goods, and farm products delivered. As of writing, they only deliver to Luzon.
2. The Healthy Grocery
How to order: Shop through www.thehealthygrocery.com
Payment options: Credit/debit card, PayPal, bank deposit, and GCash
These drinks from The Healthy Grocery gives you the nutritious benefits your body needs.
Image: The Healthy Grocery Facebook Page
The Healthy Grocery helps you choose products based on what you want to do, whether it’s for detox, work and focus, train, or rest and recover. For example, if you want to detox, you can browse through their range of detoxifying drinks such as raw wheatgrass, chia seeds, matcha, raw turmeric, raw chlorella, and MSM. Expect deliveries to take around four business days in Metro Manila. Orders that are made and paid by 3:00 PM will be shipped the same day.
3. ECHOStore
How to order: Order through https://echostore.ph/
Payment options: PayPal (Payments are made to echostore@echostore.ph), bank deposit, cash on delivery
ECHOstore stands for Environment & Community Hope Organization store.
Image: ECHOstore Website
ECHOstore carries all the things you need to start a sustainable lifestyle. Their products range from baby and kids products, books, clothes, gift sets, home essentials, personal care and spa, pet care, and stationery and supplies.
Their ECHOMARKET features various kinds of chocolate and snacks; coffee, juice, and tea; cooking and baking needs; wine and other drinks; food supplements; ketogenic products; prepared food; and vegetarian options. Orders take two to three business days to be delivered for customers within Metro Manila and three to seven for those in the provinces.
4. The Superfood Grocer Philippines
How to order: Order through www.thesuperfoodgrocer.com
Payment options: Payments can be made via online bank transfer (BPI/BDO), Paypal, or credit card
The Superfood Grocer also delivers various vegan food, ingredients, and frozen products.
Image: The Superfood GrocerFacebook Page
For a longer and healthier life, include superfoods in your diet since they have exceptional nutrients and benefits. You can find some at The Superfood Grocer, which sells superfood essentials separately or by set. You can choose from chia seeds, cacao nibs, maca powder, camu camu, chlorella, spirulina, matcha, goji berries, flax seeds, quinoa, coconut sugar, coconut nectar, and vanilla-flavored protein.
Shifting to a healthier diet doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice taste. Those who are looking for guilt-free desserts can also try The Superfood Grocer’s dairy-free ice cream line, Superscoops. The flavors to choose from are coffee cashew crumbles, choco brownie madness, strawberries and cream, vanilla caramel pecan, dark chocolate, milky matcha, and choco milk.
5. The Good Choices
How to order: Order through their webstore, https://tgcph.store/collections/all, or through their Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/thegoodchoicesph/
Payment options: Bank transfer
The Good Choices sells vegan meat substitute
Image: The Good Choices Website
Camille Acosta launched The Good Choices PH in 2016 with a goal to provide accessible plant-based food. Years later, the business grew and has successfully introduced ready-to-cook plant-based meat alternatives to those who are inspired to make lifestyle changes.
The shop offers plant-based meat and condiments that are made from non-GMO and organic soy protein. They offer breakfast classics such as tocino, bacon, tapa, longganisa (sweet pork sausage), and tofu scramble. They also have a heat and eat collection which features microwavable meals such as adobo, caldereta corned beef, sisig (minced and fried pork ears), bistek tagalog (beef steak), burger patty, embutido (ground pork meatloaf stuffed with sausages and eggs).
6. The Green Grocer
How to order: Order through https://thegreengrocermanila.com/shop/
Payment options: Cash on delivery, Paypal, and bank transfer
Not in the mood to go to the market? You can get your healthy essentials from The Green Grocer.
Image: The Green Grocer Facebook Page
For all things organic, The Green Grocer Manila is your one-stop shop. They are the first shop to provide local delivery of fresh produce, fresh gourmet goods, artisan bread and cheese, organic eggs, and grass-fed and naturally raised meats in Metro Manila. With their products coming from farms in Batangas, Laguna, and Tagaytay, you can expect natural fruits, herbs, salad greens, and vegetables. Besides their fresh produce, they also deliver organic sweeteners such as cacao and coconut sugar.
7. BukidFresh
How to order: Order through https://bukidfresh.ph/shop
Payment options: Bank transfer (BPI), GCash, and COD
Bukidfresh’s offerings are naturally grown.
Image: BukidFresh Facebook Page
You can show your support for local farmers by buying BukidFresh’s array of fresh fruits, vegetables, and ingredients that are supplied by smallholder farmers. In fact, the affordable products are priced by the farmers themselves! They currently deliver to the following selected areas in Metro Manila: Muntinlupa, Paranaque, Las Pinas, Pasay, Manila, Marikina, Taguig, Makati, Pateros, San Juan, Pasig, Mandaluyong, and the southern part of Quezon City.
8. Real Food
How to order: Order through their website, https://realfoodph.com/how-to-order/, or call or text the nearest branch.
Payment options: Bank transfer, bank deposit, and PayPal
Real Food’s products came from different provinces.
Image: REAL FOOD Facebook Page
Health conscious folks can now get their nutritious favorites delivered through Real Food PH. The products they offer are vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, local, organic, vegan, keto-friendly, and free of preservatives and refined sugar. Real Food PH’s various partner farmers deliver special products from their areas. For instance, those in Mt. Banahaw deliver mini cucumbers and tart native raspberries, while Bukidnon farmers bring cherry tomatoes, gooseberries, and purple and “batik” corn. Other products you can buy include seedless lemons from Surigao, green coconuts from Batangas, and striped purple eggplants from Pangasinan.
9. Farm to Folk
How to order: Shop through https://farmtofolk.ph/store-grid/
Payment options: BDO Bank transfer and credit card
These sweet treats are made by local farmers.
Image: Farm to Folk Facebook Page
Looking at Farm to Folk’s website will make you realize that they are passionate about providing opportunities to farmers and sustainable solutions to consumers. Their range of products are locally and ethically sourced and are also non-GMO. Some of these include various types of rice, nectars, fruits, coconuts, oils, powders, grains, coffee, cacao, and chocolate. Note that Metro Manila orders will take two to three working days to arrive. Meanwhile, orders outside Metro Manila will be delivered in three to five working days.
10. Take Root
How to order: Shop through https://takeroot.ph/
Payment options: Bank Deposit, COD, cash upon pick-up, debit or credit card
Take Root’s kale chips might be your next go-to snack!
Images: Take Root Facebook Page
Want to change your snacking habits? Try Take Root’s junk-free and plant-based snacks that are not only good for your health but also tasty. These are junk-free because they do not have refined sugar or flour, preservatives, and artificial additives. In addition, all of the snacks are plant-based. Take Root has various products, but the most popular one is their kale chips which come in the following flavors: cheese, sour cream and chive, margherita pizza, rosemary peppercorn, balsamic vinaigrette, garlic bread, and dark chocolate. Other snacks include banana chewies, energy bars, granola, bliss balls, and trail mix.
In these trying times, keep calm and stay healthy! The best thing to do is to boost your immune system— which you can do with the help of these shops’ nourishing offerings.
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About Ursula Pertez
You can find Ursula Pertez at the nearest coffee shop in her neighborhood, typing fan fictions on her laptop. When she’s not daydreaming, you can find her watching adorable dog videos on Tiktok.
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