Organic Food Australia – What to eat, what is good for you

Aldi also offer some products that are not officially organic but are still healthily like their Extra Virgin Olive Oil that is below $7 for a 1 litre bottle. It has quite an olive smell to it but it is still Extra Virgin Olive Oil and at that price who cares. You may want to use another less aromatic Extra Virgin Olive Oil in your cooking where the flavour is easily detected but for many common uses it can be a great general oil to use.

If you look closely at the yogurt offered in most food shops & supermarkets in Australia then it soon becomes obvious that the yogurt offered in Australia is just fast food or junk food packaged to make it appear as healthy.These yogurts are full of dangerous chemicals, additives,artificial colors, full fatty cream and other nasty ingredients.

In fact nearly all yogurt you buy in Australia includes cream which is full of fat and most yogurts have at least one artificial agent or preservatives and nasty chemicals which the pathetic Australian Liberal party should have banned years ago. If someone that knows anything about yogurt were to try these imitation products then they would also be surprised to see this crap as been allowed to be sold as yogurt. It is just cream with chemicals in packaging that deceives.

Australians should be ashamed that our country is allowed to continue to deceive and destroy the health of our population. Yogurt in Australia is a complete joke. Yogurt is one of the healthiest products in the world in it’s true form, it is well known to be able to benefit the digestive system like nothing else can. It is eaten daily be the people in Europe who live the longest. It is one of the top five most amazing health foods in my opinion and Australia sells cream with artificial colors & chemicals as yogurt.

Well I do have some good news besides making your own yogurt, there is a brand of yogurt that is close to what yogurt should be, this is true acidophilus yogurt and it is made by Attiki (not to be mixed up with their Continental brand which looks similar) but be warned, even this contains Pectin  which I gather is some sort of preservatives? Anyway it is the best I have found that can be purchased almost anywhere including most supermarkets and stores. You can find some smaller fruit shops etc that sell organic yogurt that is better than this but they are hard to find and of course you would be able to buy from Organic specialty stores if you are lucky enough to have one in your area.

Let’s hope we see some real yogurt in our shops in the future, too many unaware people would be buying what they think is yogurt and think it is good for them when in fact it is very bad for their health. Shame on Australia!

Tim E

One food that we know is extremely good for you and is endorsed by any nutritionist is some good quality organic muesli. From reading about it’s health benefits many years ago from a European nutritionist it is  clear that muesli is a real wonder food. Our bodies need the fiber, roughage, grains and fruit the muesli contains.

I have usually had to make my own muesli as the quality of what is offered at supermarkets is a usually poor. Often the muesli they offer is not much more than just rolled oats with a few sultanas thrown in. Thank goodness I was able to find some top quality organic muesli at my new favorite supermarket Aldi earlier this year. It is another from their new line of organic products that are locally made they now sell. Gee, have Aldi come a long way recently, I used to hate going to Aldi as the only foods they had there were just packaged processed food and strange imports. Now they offer this great new range of organic products which is a huge step forward.

Anyway getting back to this fantastic muesli which they offer for just under $5 a packet comes in a white paper bag (see picture I have uploaded here). It is actually called “Just Organic Cranberry and Almond Muesli”. It contains Mixed grains, Rolled Oats, Puffed Spelt (which I presume is the honey puff like wheat), Whole Almonds, Figs, Pepita’s, Cranberries, Currents and Linseed. They are an excellent choice of ingredients. I also like to mix it up with a few other things like some more Pepita’s, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, black currents and whatever else I have on hand to bulk it up and then it is mixed and stored in a large airtight container.

This muesli tastes delicious and has no artificial additives etc and I throughly recommended this.

I hope this is helpful and I’m in no way associated with Aldi or the company who makes this muesli.

Gary L

Finding a good brand of honey has often been quite a daunting task when visiting local super markets in Sydney. I look for a dark texture, with traces of honey comb, clear but dark, rich and firm. Most honey’s in supermarkets have been heat treated, chemicals and additives added and by the time they get to our dinner table it is more like sweetened syrup than honey.

Then one day I walked in to Aldi and I came across a brand right at the front door which had the words ‘Organic” on it… I picked it up and low & behold, it was the real deal, unprocessed, unheated and pure organic honey with the honeycomb still visible which is always a good sign of it’s quality and authenticity.

When I got home I served it up with some fresh fruit and muesli and I was so happy to have found a honey in Sydney that was affordable, untreated, delicious and organic. I have taken a picture of the product below, check it out for your self, it tastes wonderful believe me..

Honey has been used for centuries as a wonder food, it is full of goodness and a great natural form of sugar and glucose. Honey contains small amounts of several compounds thought to function as antioxidants, including chrysin, pinobanksin, vitamin C, catalase, and pinocembrin .. It was mentioned in the Bible as a special food for kings, Samson found a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of a lion  and John was a strong man who ate a lot of honey. Honey is a real health wonder food that has special properties to help you with archiving optimal health.

Article by Gary L
The product reviewed has not bee endorsed but this review was the honest opinion of the author.