The Search for Organic Purity: What it Means to be Clean
As a Health Food Shopper, you want the assurance that your foods are clean, pure, and organic without artificial additives. However, there is a great deal of noise in the marketplace today that makes it difficult to find the clean truth. Independent, unbiased, third-party certification and verification provides your best option for that assurance. Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified seals offer our most credible means of substantiation.
Our Certifications
USDA Organic
Made from Certified USDA Organic Plants grown without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms or ionizing radiation
Non-GMO Verified
Non-GMO Project Verified is an assurance that the product has been produced according to consensus-based best practices for GMO avoidance.
Certified B-Corp
Certified B-Corporations meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, and build a collective voice through the power of the unifying B-Corp brand.
Upcycled Certified
Upcycled Certified™ highlights upcycled ingredients and products procured and produced with surplus food or food by-products from manufacturing, that use verifiable supply chains and have a positive impact on the environment.
NSF Gluten-Free Certified
NSF Gluten-Free Certification ensures that companies have a gluten-free compliance plan and undergo onsite inspections of their production and handling facilities.
Certified Gluten-Free
The Certified Gluten-Free logo represents the independent verification of quality, integrity and purity of products all held to the strictest gluten-free guidelines.
Informed-Choice
The Informed-Choice Lab works with worldwide testing experts and world governments to set the standard for banned substances and ensure a level playing field, at every level.
4ocean
4ocean exists for one reason: to protect and preserve our oceans by removing plastic. Garden of Life has partnered with 4ocean to work together to remove 500,000 pounds of trash from the waterways by 2026!
MSC
MSC certification provides the highest level of assurance that the seafood product is verified to be sustainable/responsible, is harvested legally, and is traceable back to a sustainable source.
Star-K Kosher
Star-K Kosher Certification supervises tens of thousands of food products and food establishments, including restaurants and caterers around the world.
NSF Certified for Sport
The NSF Certified for Sport® mark ensures that products do not contain any of approximately 270+ substances banned by major athletic organizations.
OU Kosher Certified
The Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division is the world’s largest kosher certification agency. As of 2010, it supervised more than 400,000 products in 8,000 plants in 80 different countries.
Kosher UDE
This symbol means the product, while not containing dairy ingredients itself, was made on equipment also used for making dairy products.
Pareve (or Parve) Kosher
The term Pareve, or Parve, refers to “neutral” foods that don’t contain meat or dairy ingredients, or their derivatives. All fruits, grains, vegetables, water and minerals in their natural state are kosher and pareve. Eggs from kosher fowl are pareve, as are fish.
Green-e® Energy Certified
The nation’s leading voluntary certification program for renewable energy. Green-e® Energy stands for verified, certified renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reductions.
LEED Gold Certified
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.
Friend of the Sea
Has become the leading certification standard for products and services which respects and protects the marine environment. The certification awards sustainable practices in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Fishmeal and Omega-3 Fish Oil.
Peta Cruelty-Free & Vegan
To be considered “cruelty-free” under PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies program, a company must not only ban animal tests but also refuse to use any animal-derived ingredients.
NSF Contents Certified
NSF Contents Certified is a third-party certification ensuring what is stated on the label is what you are getting in the bottle.
Certified Vegan
Products bearing the Certified Vegan logo must not contain any animal or animal by-products or chemical products tested on animals, keeping them in our world and out of our bodies.