With the help of many local vegetarian societies, we've selected over 500 of the top healthfood stores around the USA and placed them in our FREE City & State Guides.

The recent boom in health food stores has provided an enormous variety of high quality products that are heads above the processed junk loaded with preservatives currently sold in today's supermarkets. For those looking to live a more natural lifestyle, health food stores enable the consumer to choose delicious and wholesome products, confident that they do not contain harmful chemical additives. Healthfood prices are sometimes higher than in today's "junk food" supermarkets, but the investment in your health is well worth it for the superior nutritional value, and saving the additional cost and time by not having to read the labels for harmful chemicals.

The trend in health food stores is to move toward one-stop shopping, and many of today's stores, such as Whole Foods Market are excellent examples of large-scale centers that cater to the full range of consumer needs.

In addition to the wider array of health food products, health food stores are often a good source of milk substitutes, cruelty-free cosmetics, bulk grains, nuts and seeds, organic fruits and vegetables, non-toxic cookware, vegetarian meat substitutes, non-dairy cheese alternatives, fat-free natural pastries, and fast-food delis.

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