College students have a tendency to gravitate towards unhealthy options while grocery shopping, but Earth Fare eliminates this predicament. Earth Fare offers a wide variety of fresh, organic, and nutritious food items, which makes choosing a healthy lifestyle easy.

Earth Fare upholds eight simple rules. These food philosophies eliminate several ingredients and processes and include the following:

• No hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils
• No high fructose corn syrup
• No artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, preservatives
• No antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones or animal by-products in the feed
• No bleached or bromated flour
• No irradiated single source spices, produce, or meat
• No animal by-products in pet foods
• No inhumane treatment of the animals providing dairy, meat, eggs

Deciding to remove these harmful elements from your diet is only the first step. You must then proactively inspect and understand ingredient labels. However, Earth Fare has already checked and double checked all the components of the items lining its shelves.

“Usually when I go to the grocery store, I pick up an item and read the label to make sure there aren’t ingredients I would find objectionable. Earth Fare is a huge time saver because I know everything provided in the store will be healthy for my family,” said Linda, an Earth Fare customer in Huntsville, Alabama.

Linda is an organic gardener and enjoys purchasing certain grocery items from a farmer’s market. She is glad that Earth Fare recently opened in Huntsville and believes customers will have a similar, pleasant experience shopping at Earth Fare in Auburn. “I am always looking for healthier choices for my family. I noticed recently that even baking powder and cake mixes can contain aluminum, which has been linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease,” she cautions.

Brad, Assistant Store Manager in Auburn, has experienced the exponential benefits from purchasing meat that assures against antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones. Brad encourages other families to adopt Earth Fare’s principles into their own diets, citing, “my family has eaten that way for the past fifteen years.” His two fourteen-year-old daughters have been able to grow and mature properly without the interference of animal hormones, harmful pesticides, and irradiation. Brad guarantees, “We truly stand behind our quality standards.”

Travis, General Manager in Auburn, allows local farmers and producers to sell their products at Earth Fare, as long as they reach the highest qualifications and are within a four hour drive. “I like it closest to the ground as possible,” Travis said. He advocates a personal food philosophy to include, “the minimally processed, the better.”

Like Brad, Travis encourages customers to create healthy meals with their friends and families, which in turn helps support the local community serving Earth Fare in Auburn. Earth Fare's grand opening is Wednesday, June 23, located at 1550 Opelika Road.

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