Healthy Living: 5 local shops to score healthy food alternatives
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Start your healthy living journey with these five local online shops where you can find nutritious food substitutes.
Planning a lifestyle change? Choosing the right kind of food is the best way to start a healthy lifestyle.
Consuming Plant-based meals is one option. More and more people are getting into vegan diets that's why some commercial food establishments have started to offer plant-based meat alternative to cater to different dietary requirements.
With the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila, a healthy and balanced diet is a must for everyone to stay well-nourished and well, healthy.
According to Brigham Health Hub, food alternatives can provide major health benefits, which include a steadier blood sugar level, lower cholesterol, and lesser calories. It can also lead to weight loss and lessens the possibility of acquiring health risks like diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, and other illnesses.
If you're planning to switch up your diet, you may want to try these local shops that carry a variety of healthy food alternatives.
The Vegan Grocer
This local shop offers all vegan, plant-based, meat-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and cholesterol-free products.
It also carries a variety of vegan products such as plant-based almond milk, vegan meat substitute, vegannaise or vegan mayonnaise, and vegetable noodles.
Some of their best-selling products include the fishless tuyo flakes, veggie canton, and garlicky mushroom bagoong.
The Superfood Grocer
More than just its amazing healthy products, this shop empowers every individual to become the healthiest and strongest versions of themselves.
It offers a variety of nutrient-rich, plant-based, and vegan superfoods such as chia seeds, flax seeds, goji berries, vegan quinoa longganisa, and dairy-free ice cream.
Its top-rated products are the cacao nibs coated in coconut sugar, organic spirulina, and nutritional yeast.
7Grains Company
7Grains Company offers healthy food substitutes that are low in calories, sugar, and salt. The local shop calls itself a “convenient and sustainable healthy food substitution” brand that creates the best nutritious substitutes to the food people regularly intake.
This brand's best-selling products include the yellow soybean pasta, shirataki rice and noodles, skinny seasoning, and skinny tomato ketchup.
Healthy Options
This local brand is the first and biggest shop for organic and all-natural products since 1995. This shop provides a wide range of products from food, drink, to skincare and beauty essentials.
Their food products cater to different dietary options like keto, paleo, vegan, and vegetarian, and offer organic, dairy and gluten-free, low sodium, and no-sugar-added items.
Nutritious alternatives such as organic coconut flour, quinoa pasta, and organic chips are available at their shops.
The Green Tummy
The Green Tummy offers a variety of superfoods at an affordable price and features products that are locally produced.
Superfoods such as chia seeds, flax seeds, spirulina, and quinoa, are available in this local brand.
Its top-selling products include sugar coated cacao nibs, organic dried goji berries, and organic acai powder.
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Meanwhile, here are some ways to stay healthy during the enhanced community quarantine according to these celebrities:
