The Health Nuts
“I always go there to buy milk, Organic veggies, and other cooking ingredients.”
“You've just gotten people to spend 10 dollars on a tall glass of apple juice!”
The Health Nuts
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range Moderate
3 reviews
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love and hate. they sell more healthy snacks than whole foods. im talking about raw and gluten free cacao bites, nori sticks, kale chips etcetc. at the same time a lot of stuff here here is more expensive on sale than whole foods regular priced (e.g. califia almond milk) 🙁
props to making myself sound like a domestic goddess
Had an awesome deal for TEA, bought a lot of boxes. I wish this store was closer to me because they have a good selection of essentials.
3.5 stars. Can't give it four due to the cons.
As a health nut myself, I find that there aren't many options for healthy food in the Manhattan Valley area. This place has been clutch for me when I'm looking for my kale fix. However, I am a health nuts who actually likes REAL ANIMAL MEAT for my protein. Sure, tofu is all fine and good and I know plenty of people are all about the vegan life now, but I'm a gym rat in addition to a health nut, so some chicken, turkey and salmon in the prepared foods section would be nice. Don't misunderstand – they do sell poultry and fish, just not at the prepared foods counter.
Prices: Odd. Their produce is absurdly expensive. A tiny box of blueberries costs $7. Absolutely ridiculous. But the products that are also sold and your average supermarkets (frozen yogurt, milk, some Greek yogurt brands, etc.) are actually cheaper here. Not quite sure what accounts for that dichotomy. Prices for everything at the prepared food counter are also reasonable.
Selection: So-so. I'm here every week and I'm always aware of the snack-to-actual food ratio. It's not a good one (unless you consider hemp and quinoa tortilla chips a meal…who knows). They have a vast section of frozen food and as alluded to, aisles upon aisles of snack food and cereal/granola, but they're lacking in food with real, hearty substance. Energy/nutrition bars for DAYS. In their prepared foods counter, you can usually find items such as kale slaw, steamed mixed greens, sweet potato mash, quinoa and spinach burgers, tofu curry, chickpea salad, etc. Special shoutot to the tofu curry – it's actually quite tasty.
One thing that I love: they carry the only protein powder I'll use (Tera's Whey, if you were wondering).
Other features:
-Full juice/smoothie bar
-Lots and lots and lots of natural remedies/oils/supplements
-Very sweet employees that often get in your way, but you can't get mad, because they're really, really sweet.