About the product range at Healthy Supplies
At Healthy Supplies, we take great care in choosing our product range. Rather than offering thousands of products of varying quality, we carefully select the products that we believe to be of most benefit. This way, you do not have to wade through thousands of products that are useless, in order to get to the good stuff.
Our no-nonsense approach
Scientific understanding of nutrition and health is constantly evolving, and often there are no right or wrong answers about whether something is good for you. So it's wise to take an open-minded approach.
However, we are not gullible, and tend to reject trendy or
faddish products unless there is some good evidence that they are in some way
good for those who care about their health.
We always have a definite justification for including each product on this website, and aim to make this justification as clear as possible. As far as possible, we will try out the products ourselves and give our own verdicts on them, rather than simply repeating the manufacturers' claims. We can back up everything that we say on this site!
Careful Evaluation
We are very discerning about the products that we list, and evaluate each product carefully before deciding whether to list it. This is why there are relatively few products on the site: there is no point in stocking 10 brands of something, when one or two brands are clearly better than the others.
We reject far more products than we include.
Of course when it comes to food, people do get bored of eating exactly the same thing all the time, so we do provide sufficient variety and different flavours of things. We hope that we get the balance right.
If you do feel that something is missing from our range, please contact us and we will look into it. We always welcome opinions.
Uncompromising Quality
We endeavour to choose the products that we think are the best available. If you have any feedback about our products, please let us know by contributing to the comments for that page (see the links on the right of each page).
We will delete any product that we feel is outclassed by a similar product at the same price point. We only sell the best!
We are always on the lookout for new and exciting products, so if you see any, please do not hesitate to contact us. But remember, a product has to be really good for us to consider it worth listing...
Affordability
Though our priority is to have the best products and the best customer service, we aim to make our prices affordable and accessible to all. This means that you can afford healthy food every day.
For example, we supply fantastic value packs of spices and herbs, which are far better than the measly jars that are commonly available. We really recommend using a variety of spices for nutritional reasons (see here). In fact, many of the foods here are available in bulk quantities.
As well as this, we have a fantastic discount structure that rewards bulk-buying of cupboardy foods.
Food
Our attitude to food is that for most people, the best thing to do is to
have the most varied diet possible. To this end, we encourage a passion
for cooking and cuisine. Our product range consists largely of the unusual foods that you
are less likely to find in a supermarket. In addition, each of the foods on this website
have been carefully considered for their healthiness. We prefer products that
have as few additives as possible, and that have low calorie counts. For example:
- Our range of
fruit bars is carefully chosen to include only the ones with no
added sugar or syrup.
- Our dried apricots range includes those with no added sulphur.
- We stock a wide range of pulses, in nice big friendly economy-sized bags.
- We encourage cooking with herbs and spices, both for their nutritional value as well as the fact that eating a wide variety of world cuisines is a good way to diversify your food intake.
- We sell supplements. In an ideal world, we would get everything that we need from our diet. However, a large number of us do not, and supplements are a good way to help safeguard us from dietary deficiencies.
- Wherever possible, we cater for those who are on a restricted diet, such as wheat-free, low-sugar and low-salt.
We hope that you will find our range interesting and helpful. We do our best to research all of our products and their ingredients, and aim to offer the healthiest options wherever possible. If you are a supplier of interesting healthy food, or you know of something that you think that we should stock, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Fun
Although health is a serious matter, we don't believe that healthy living should be a sacrifice. If your diet is no fun at all, then you will soon get bored and stop dieting.
For this reason, we deliberately pick healthy foods that are fun to eat, and like we like to encourage eating in fun ways. In particular, we know that everybody loves snacking, which is why we provide fun snack ideas that encourage "safe snacking".
Food should make you feel good. Healthy, fun food promotes a feeling of well-being, as well as being good for you. Food should always be one of life's simple pleasures.
No preachiness
We focus on healthy eating and healthy living rather than politics.
Though we offer organic, fairtrade and restricted-diet
options wherever possible, we'll also balance this with affordability.
We ourselves have quite a clear green conscience, and operate in a non-wasteful manner, re-using packaging materials as much as possible.
See our no preachiness page for more.
No fads or quackery
We only supply products that we believe are beneficial.
We are very mindful of bandwagons and trendy ideas about health,
and try to stick to the science. Where there is no scientific
consensus about a topic, we will keep an open mind. See our rejected products page for products that we have rejected so far.
For further details please see here.
No exaggeration
We don't exaggerate about our products. Everything is presented in a matter-of-fact manner, with no marketing-speak. It is all our own personal opinion of the products, and we take full responsibility for everything that we say. We do not copy off the back of the packet.
All of the products here are things that, in our view, are good products. Faddish products get rejected.
Customer Reviews on Trustpilot
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