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Quality Standards
We’re dedicated to helping you make informed choices
Our business is to sell the highest quality foods we can find at the most competitive prices possible. We evaluate quality in terms of nutrition, freshness, appearance, and taste. Our search for quality is a never-ending process involving the careful judgment of buyers throughout the company.
Seafood Quality Standards
Whether it's wild-caught or farmed, fresh or frozen, everything in our seafood department adheres to our Quality Standards, which are the highest in the industry.
Meat and Animal Welfare Standards
At Whole Foods Market, we're dedicated to helping you make informed choices about the food you eat. It's often easy to forget that the burger, steak or drumstick on your plate was once an animal. How was that animal raised?
Unacceptable Ingredients for Food
The following list contains ingredients that Whole Foods Market finds unacceptable in food products.
Whole Body Quality Standards
Many of you are smart about taking supplements. After all, nutrition surveys consistently show that a substantial portion of people in the US fail to consume the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) of various nutrients. But are you smart about which kind you buy?
Organic Body Care Standards
For your health—and that of the planet—we've expanded organic standards to body care, we're using "greener" packaging and we're insisting on even safer ingredients.
Premium Body Care Standards
People are looking for safer, more natural body care products, but there is a lot of confusion about what "natural" actually means. So, with more than 25 years of experience and 3 years of tough scientific research review, we have stepped up to help give concerned consumers something to count on.
Organic Food
Some things are just no brainers, like knowing you can always find a lot of organic food at our stores.
