Take a look at the plant-based ingredients we use in our smoothie bar alone. This list does not even include the forty-plus organic fruits and vegetables we use to make our juices, soups, dressings, sauces, and prepared foods.
Smoothie Bar Açaí berry, almond butter, almond milk (homemade), ashwagandha extract, avocado, banana, beet powder, blueberries, cacao nibs, cashews, cherries, chia seeds, cinnamon, coconut meat, coconut water, vegan collagen peptide powder, vegan creatine powder, dates, flax seeds, ginger pulp, 18 greens blend, hemp protein powder, hemp seeds, kava extract, maca extract, mango, maple syrup, MCT oil, moringa, nutmeg, pea protein, peanuts, pineapple, pitaya, raspberries, raw cacao powder, sea moss extract, sea salt, shilajit, rhodiola rosea, panax ginseng, spirulina, strawberries, vanilla extract.
Smoothie Bowl Toppings Berry granola, chocolate granola, chia and flax blend, quinoa puffs, rose petals, coconut flakes, fresh strawberries, fresh raspberries, fresh blueberries.
Wellness Shots Turmeric, ginger, apple cider vinegar, pineapple, lemon, black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, plant enzymes, vegan probiotics, elderberry extract, American ginseng, echinacea, cayenne, maple syrup.
Fruits & Vegetables Açaí berry, apple, avocado, banana, beet, blueberries, cantaloupe, carrot, celery, cilantro, cucumber, dragon fruit, goji berries, grapefruit, honeydew, jalapeño, kale, lemon, mango, mint, orange, pear, pineapple, raspberries, romaine, rose petals, schisandra berries, strawberries, watermelon, zucchini.
Roots, Alliums & Aromatics Basil, garlic, ginger, leeks, onion, yellow onion, yukon gold potato.
Grains, Starches & Flours Almond flour, buckwheat, cassava, millet, oats, potato starch, quinoa.
Nuts, Seeds & Butters Almond butter, almonds, cashews, chia seeds, coconut flakes, coconut meat, flax seeds, hemp seeds, hemp protein, peanut butter, pea protein, pecans, pistachio, quinoa puffs, tahini.
Superfoods & Adaptogens Ashwagandha, E3 Live blue spirulina, E3 Live blue-green algae, green spirulina, nutritional yeast, plant enzymes, schisandra berries, vegan probiotics, 18 greens blend.
Medicinal & Botanical
American ginseng, apple cider vinegar, berbere spice mix, black pepper, cardamom, cayenne, cinnamon, cumin, echinacea, garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, super elderberry extract, turmeric.
Sweeteners Dates, maple syrup.
Fats & Oils Coconut milk (homemade), coconut oil, olive oil.
Beverages & Extracts Black tea, cold brew coffee, espresso, vanilla, herbal teas.
Bakery Bases & Leaveners Almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, buckwheat, cassava, millet, oats, pink salt, potato starch, sea salt.
Raw Cacao Raw cacao powder, cacao nibs.
Homemade Almond milk, made fresh in house daily. Never boxed, never pasteurized, never compromised.
We also stock dozens of herbs, spices, legumes, extracts, and specialty functional ingredients. Lentils, chickpeas, medicinal herbs, mushrooms, roots, and superfoods are part of our everyday pantry. We source intentionally, prepare as much as possible in house, and remain committed to ingredient integrity at every step. We are not chasing trends. We are building the kind of food company we would want to eat from ourselves.
Honey
Honey begins as a flower. That is not a metaphor. The source material is nectar, drawn from blossoms, which means its origin is entirely botanical. Bees collect it, add their own enzymes, and fan it with their wings until the water evaporates and it becomes the dense, golden substance we know. The transformation is enzymatic. No animal tissue is involved. No secretion in the biological sense that milk or eggs represent. What you are eating, when you eat raw honey, is a plant compound that has been alchemized by one of nature's most intelligent creatures into something more concentrated, more medicinal, and more alive than it was at the source.
This distinction matters, and serious food philosophers have made it. The argument that honey is not a plant-based food has always been somewhat thin when examined closely. The nectar is plant cell based. The process is enzymatic. The result is botanical in origin even if the mechanism is biological.
The ethical objection that has more weight is how bees are treated. There was a period in commercial beekeeping, and it still happens in some operations today, where queen bees had their wings clipped to prevent them from leaving the hive and taking the colony with them. That is a legitimate grievance, and the early plant-based movement was right to raise it. But the picture is more complex than the critique suggests. Responsible beekeepers have every economic and practical reason to protect their colonies. A stressed hive produces nothing. A dead queen is a catastrophe. The relationship between a skilled beekeeper and their bees is closer to stewardship than exploitation, and at scale, bees are not victims of agriculture so much as its architects. They pollinate approximately one third of the global food supply. Without them, the plant-based movement itself collapses. Almonds, berries, cucumbers, squash, most of what fills a produce section exists because bees worked it into existence. The line between using bees and benefiting from bees is not a line at all. It is a circle.
Veganism, like most ethical frameworks, was built over time and contains internal contradictions that its most rigid adherents tend not to examine. A person eating a strictly vegan diet who avoids honey on principle while consuming crops that required commercial pollination is making a distinction that does not fully hold up under scrutiny. I am not saying the ethics do not matter. I am saying the ethics are more nuanced than a label allows.
My mentor in food, Fred B., has been one hundred percent raw for sixty-five years. She uses raw honey. She has used it her entire life, as part of a dietary philosophy that is more rigorous, more studied, and more empirically validated than almost anything I have encountered in decades of working in this space. That is a data point worth taking seriously.
Raw honey is enzymatically alive. It is antimicrobial, antifungal, rich in antioxidants and trace minerals, and has been used medicinally across virtually every culture on earth for thousands of years. There is no refined or processed substitute that replicates what it does. Manuka honey has documented wound-healing properties that modern medicine has not been able to synthesize. Propolis, the resinous compound bees produce to seal and protect their hives, is one of the most potent natural antimicrobials known. These are not folk remedies. They are substances with serious biochemical profiles.
Honey is not part of my daily diet, not because I believe it is wrong, but simply because it is not something I reach for. If I feel the need, I will use it. I do not carry guilt about that. The goal of a plant-based life is not moral perfection measured against an arbitrary checklist. It is a genuine effort to eat in a way that honors the body, respects living systems, and causes the least unnecessary harm. Raw honey, sourced from ethical beekeepers, does not violate any of those principles in any meaningful way.
The enemy of good health is not a teaspoon of raw honey. It is the processed, refined, industrially manufactured food supply that passes itself off as nourishment while quietly dismantling human health over decades. Keep your focus there.