The purest, most delicious superfoods available!

At Essential Living Foods, we offer the purest, most nutritious organic foods on the planet, always produced using fair trade and sustainable farming practices.

In this section of our website, you can explore the vast array of great taste and great nutrition brought to you right from the source! We specialize in nutritious Superfoods and delicious, exotic snacks because we believe everyone deserves to have vibrant food! The combination of great taste, unsurpassed purity, and super nutritious is a hallmark of Essential Living Foods. That’s why we say, “It’s more than health food – it’s Essential Living Food!”

ELF has made an unwavering commitment to true quality. We travel the world year-round in search of the most exotic heirloom foods emerging from indigenous cultures and unspoiled ecosystems. We use the purest techniques and cutting-edge technologies in growing, harvesting, drying, and packaging – all to ensure the most enzymatically-stable and nutrient-rich products available. We cut out the middleman and connect you directly to our sustainable farms.

So ease back on your computer mouse, and click your way through our high quality offerings. You can buy right here on our web site, learn more about the farms and farmers who grow our foods, and see and participate in the development projects we support. Let the snacking begin!

Raw cacao

Raw Cacao—the pure source of ordinary chocolate—was revered by ancient cultures as the food of the gods. Research is now linking the antioxidants in cacao to everything from cardiovascular health to improved brain function and longevity! Cacao even provides the same molecules our brain makes when we’re happy or in love!

Our raw cacao undergoes special handling so that it’s truly raw, totally contaminant-free and absolutely bursting with fresh nutrients, vital enzymes, and subtle flavors.

We offer this Ecuadorian superfood in several forms – whole beans, nibs (small pieces of the whole, peeled bean), and powder (great for baking, raw foods preparations, and drinks!).

Raw Chocolate

We’ve built on our years of experience supplying the finest quality raw cacao to bring you the next level in healthy snacking – raw chocolate! We sweeten our premium quality raw cacao with a variety of sweeteners – dehydrated cane juice, low-glycemic coconut sugar, and low-glycemic agave nectar. This maintains all the antioxidant qualities of the raw cacao without the bitterness of 100% dark chocolate. And the quality of the beans we source from the finest, heirloom strain in Ecuador, gives our raw chocolate not only the finest flavor of any raw chocolate you’ve ever had, but we think it tastes even better than even premium, traditionally roasted chocolates!

Check out our raw chocolate covered superfoods, and our deliciously decadent raw chocolate truffles and enlighten you sweet tooth - guilt free!

Superbars

Forget energy bars. These are vitality bars! All RAW, all organic, these delicious snacks pack a delicious flavor explosion into each nutrient-rich mouthful! Sweetened with agave, this is one snack that won't give you the post-sugar blues. To top off your vitality meter, we add a natural blend of food-derived vitamins, minerals, enzymes and flavonoids - proven to be more absorbable than the synthetic stuff most people add to their bars. So enjoy every bite of these unique snacks. It's more than health food - it's Essential Living Food.

Trail mix

Crunchy, chewy, sweet, and satisfying, our organic blend of luscious superfruits and nourishing nuts delivers a sustainable burst of energy and stomach-satisfying protein that will have you whistling all day long.

Your body will thank you for the supernutrient explosion of chewy Goji Berries. Your brain will thank you for the mood-lifting nutrients in the crunchy Cacao Nibs. Your mouth will be too busy salivating over the tangy mulberries, succulent figs, and sweet coconut to say much of anything. The whole symphony rounds out with creamy cashews and hearty brazil nuts, for a stick-to-your-ribs protein powerhouse. On a hike, or hard at work, enjoy every bite!

Superfruits

As one of the first companies to import goji berries into the US, we at Essential Living Foods know how to deliver the highest quality berries. With their high anti-oxidant levels, trace minerals, and 18 amino acids, goji berries put the “super” in “superfood,” providing cholesterol-reducing phytosterols and eyesight-protecting carotenoids.

Superfood Powders

Through years of research, we’ve found the best, most innovative ways to process superfoods while still maintaining their efficacy. We’re offering you four great blends of powdered superfoods – energy-boosting, mood-enhancing, concentration-building, and rejuvenating – a difference you can feel!

Enrich your smoothie or recipes with our premium quality raw cacao powder; start your morning off right with a hot or cold glass of our chocolate energy drink mix; get the best of maca’s hormone balancing, energy lifting and performance enhancing benefits from our proprietary maca blend; or enjoy a well balanced, satisfying, antioxidant-rich, and delicious smoothie with our superfood smoothie pre-mixed blend.

Olives

Our olives come from the first organic farm in Peru, located in a coastal desert that has never been exposed to pesticides or toxic fertilizers. Lovingly crafted by a husband and wife, these olives are cured with time-honored techniques, giving you the finest olives in the world – and 100% organic!

Nuts

Nuts are among the healthiest foods on the planet, and are a popular source of protein for vegetarians and anyone cutting down on their meat consumption. But even when grown organically, nuts have two major shortcomings: they are usually heated during processing and shipping (which damages subtle nutrients and makes them impossible to use in sprouting), and they’re often full of rancid oils (which are toxic to your body). You can rely on Essential Living Foods to provide you the purest, freshest and tastiest raw nuts on the planet.

Low Glycemic Sweeteners

Many of us are avoiding sugar these days, but why give up enjoying sweet foods? Unlike white sugar and honey, our natural sweeteners have a very low glycemic index, meaning there’s no spiking of your blood sugar level. Not only are they delicious (ranging from sweet and smooth to rich and complex), they’re great for diabetics or anyone wanting to avoid the blood-sugar crash associated with sweet foods.

Oils

We’re all familiar with the importance of having “good fats” such as Omega-3 or polyunsaturates in our diet, but the purity, freshness, and rawness of these fats is just as crucial. Health experts are warning that “virgin” and “cold-pressed” oils are anything but – most are heated to several hundred degrees, destroying vital nutrients and altering the function of the lipid molecules. Leave it to Essential Living Foods to offer you truly raw, living oils with all the nutrient density and great taste that Nature intended!