The Pantry - Kenmare.com

Henry Street
Kenmare
County Kerry
Tel. 064 42233
e-mail

Celebrating 35 years of Wholefood Established in 1973.
Whole Foods, Organic Produce and Organic Wines.

Fine Organic wines
Whole Food
Gluteen Free
Dairy Free
Organic fruit & Veg.
Veg/Vegan
Artisan Breads
Free Range Eggs

"Anthroposophic and Homeopathic Medicines and Natural Bodycare are products to restore health and maintain wellbeing. Naturally, ethically, safely, without animal experimentation and without damaging the environment."

Hugo Speykebrood (owner)

Bach Flower Remedies - Weleda Homeopathy - New Era Tissue Salts - A.Vogel Tinctures - Dead Sea Magik
Solgar Vitamines - Green People - Ecover - Burt Bee's - Jasons - Avalon Organics - Organic Cotton Clothing

"There are no definitive answers as to the origins of herbal expertise. Acute observation, coupled with trial and error,
has played a predominant role. Human societies have had many generations to record the effects of eating a particular root,
leaf or berry. Also, watching the behaviour of animals after they had eaten
or rubbed against certain plants must have added to medicinal knowledge."

A health food store is a type of grocery store that primarily sells organic foods, local produce, and often nutritional supplements. Health food stores often offer foods that attract people with special diets, such as people with wheat and gluten allergies, diabetics, vegans, vegetarians, and raw foodists.

Health food
      The term health food has no official definition. Some terms that are associated with health food are macrobiotics, natural foods, organic foods and whole foods. Macrobiotics is a diet focusing primarily on whole cereals. Whole cereals, along with other whole foods, are foods that are minimally processed. Whole cereals generally have their fiber, germ and hull intact and are considered more nutritious. Natural foods are simply foods that contain no artificial ingredients. Organic foods are foods that are grown without the use of conventional and artificial pesticides and must meet certain organic standards.

History of health food stores
      Many foods which are now commonplace in groceries first entered the market in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Efforts by early health pioneers such as Sylvester Graham, Horace Greeley, John Harvey Kellogg, George Ohsawa, Ellen White and others spurred an interest in health food. As early as the 1920s and 1930s health food stores started opening in the United States selling products such as blackstrap molasses and brewer's yeast. Health food stores became much more common in the 1960s in connection to the newly emerging ecology movement and counterculture.

Many health food stores are worker owned cooperatives and consumers' cooperatives due in part to their growth of popularity during the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s and the ability of cooperative buying power to bring lower costs to the consumer.

Over the last decade, health food, and especially organic food, has entered the mainstream.

We offer Qualified advise, Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition , Natural Life, Solgar & Weleda