GMO-free foods are tough to find or, rather, it is simply difficult to differentiate between genetically modified ingredients and natural ingredients when reading the nutrition facts. Consumers are confounded by the lack of reasonable and appropriate labeling laws for GMO foods in the United States even though the vast majority of US consumers want genetically modified foods appropriately labeled.
Further Reading
- Action Alert: Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
- Take the Real Food Challenge
Rather than waylay you with information on the detriments of GMO foods or scare you into going GMO-free, this post gives you a guide to which brands of foods are GMO-free at the time of writing. Keep in mind that this list is not comprehensive.
GMO-free Brands
These brands, at the time of writing, source their ingredients from GMO-free supplies. If you’re concerned about the very real threat that genetically modified organisms pose to our food supply and ultimate health, please purchase from these companies and contact them to let them know that you support and value their decision to use non-gmo soy, corn, canola and other ingredients. Please enjoy this GMO-free food list and share it.
- Arrowhead Mills: GMO-free providers of baking mixes and flours found in both natural health food stores and regular supermarkets.
- Eden Foods: GMO-free providers of canned goods, noodles, tamari, miso, vinegar and Asian foodstuffs.
- Natural Choice Foods: GMO-free roviders of frozen dessert products.
- Purity Foods: GMO-free makers of spelt-based noodles, snacks and other goodies.
- Rapunzel: My all-time favorite chocolate company. They also sell speciality oils.
- Spectrum Oils: GMO-free manufacturer of speciality oils, cooking oils, salad oils and natural shortening.
- Genisoy: Uses only certified GMO-free soybeans for their many soy products.
- Earth’s Best: Baby food manufacturer uses non-GMO ingredients.
- Healthy Times: Baby food manufacturer uses non-gmo ingredients.
- Bob’s Red Mill: GMO-free provider of baking mixes and specialty flours.
- Pamela’s Products: Provider of luscious gluten-free baking mixes sources non-GMO ingredients.
- Whole Foods Store Brands: Whole foods has made the commitment to sourcing its ingredients from GMO-free sources.
- Cascadian Farms: Provider of frozen entrees, juices, frozen vegetables and fruit, yogurt and other foods.
- Imagine Foods: GMO-free provider of soy and rice milk as well as broth and other foods.
- Muir Glen: Source of canned goods and vegetable juice uses gmo-free foods.
- Thai Kitchen: Source for coconut milks and Asian ingredients sources gmo-free ingredients.
- Amy’s Kitchen: GMO-free source of canned soups, chilies, boxed and frozen meals.
- Nature’s Path: Manufacturer of cereals and snack bars made with ingredients sourced gmo-free.
- Annie’s Naturals: Manufacturer of BBQ sauce, salad dressings and other condiments sourced from gmo-free ingredients.
- San J: GMO-free manufacturer of soy sauce, shoyu and tamari.
- Tradition Miso: Manufacturer of miso pastes that are made from GMO-free ingredients.
- Barbara’s Bakery: Manufacturer of cookies sources from gmo-free ingredients.
- Lundberg Family Farms: GMO-free provider of rice and wild rice foods including raw rice, soups and convenience foods.
- Walkers: Provider of the best shortbread cookies ever as well as other sweet treats.
- Fantastic Foods: Provider of hummus, falafel, risotto couscous, soup and other mixes with gmo-free ingredients.
- Vitasoy: Manufacturer of soy-based foods sourced from gmo-free ingredients.
- Clif: Manufacturer of energy bars sourced from gmo-free foods.
- Kettle Chips: GMO-free manufacturer of potato and tortilla chips.
- Que Pasa: Manufacturer of tortilla chips and other Mexican foods sourced from non-gmo ingredients.
- Garden of Eatin: Manufacturer of chips, salsas and other snack foods.
- French Meadow Bakery: Manufacturer of bread and baked goods using non-gmo ingredients.
- White Wave: Manufacturer of soy products including tofu and tempeh using gmo-free soy.
- Bearitos: Manufacturer of snack foods and dips using gmo-free foods.
- Chaffin Family Orchards: Is committed to GMO-free foods and sells an assortment of goods including olive oil.
- Cultures for Health: All starters and products sold at Cultures for Health are GMO-free.
- Grindstone Bakery: GMO-free provider of wheat- and gluten-free bread.
- Pure Indian Foods: GMO-free provider of grass-fed ghee.
- To Your Health: Provider of gmo-free sprouted breads and sprouted flours.
- US Wellness Meats: Provider of pasture- and grass-fed meats free of GMO supplemental feed.
- Zukay: Provider of live cultured condiments and salsa free from GMO.
- Wisconsin Healthy Grown Potatoes: GMO-free potatoes.
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What a great list! It’s frightening to think that it’s much shorter/easier to put together a list of companies that don’t use GMO’s than to put together a list of companies that do. Thanks for doing the leg work on this!
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Julie – Tell me about it! I did all that legwork in writing the post and then I hit “publish” and the list looked a LOT shorter than I’d hoped. I’m hoping to keep it updated with continual research.
AWESOME resource! Thank you so much for posting this.
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Check out CHEESESLAVE’s last post: Healthy Soaked Oatmeal Cookies.
Thank you so much for posting this super helpful list!
Check out Nicole’s last post: Fat, Fat and more Fat.
Thanks for posting this as I’m starting to freak out about GMO’s and have been wondering how to start avoiding them and working it into my budget.
Jenny,
Hope you’ll add Essential Eating to your list We have organic Sprouted 100% Whole Grain Wheat and Spelt Flours. We are GMO free!
Thank you for this great list! I wonder how it is possible for some of these companies – thinking out loud here – who sell some non-organic foods to be also non-GMO? What springs to mind (and what brought me here) is Bob’s Red Mill Masa Harina, which is not organic. Perhaps I have been ignorant all along, but for many months now I have believed that any corn which is not organic is likely GMO. What do you think? I appreciate your input and hope my question was clear.
I own a health food store and research all products I carry to assure that they don’t contain GMOs. The Bob’s Red Mill has become employee-owned, and the company has assured me that they don’t use GMO ingredients, including the corn in their Masa Harina. In fact their Masa Harina is the only GMO-free brand I can find unless I want to purchase fifty kilos of the stuff.
Hey Jenny,
Thanx for your great works!
We all need to connect and take a stand against gmos. If “we the people” don’t want gmos, why are they in the system? I’ll tell you why! Because “they” are “POISONING US FOR PROFIT” and “they” don’t give a —- about us or our health. This includes the government, whos’ only job is to protect and serve “we the people” not their “power and profits”!
Sorry…I just had to rant. I am sooo frustrated (to put it mildly) about gmos being intentionally put into our food system against not only our knowledge, but against our will!
We must band together and fight this attack on our most basic right…pure, healthy, chosen, foods!
Thanx for letting me rant and rave about your good works:)
Shaman Phoenix
thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much
GMO free foods are one thing, but I’m concerned about the water also. How can we find out if anything from these crops is seeping into the ground water? Is that possible? I know the pesticides do. Just wondering.
Thank you so much for publishing this list.
Who Ever made this list THANK YOU!!! 80 % of the corn grown in the US is GMO!!! 80% Dude! We must not take this as US citizens we need to fight this…. I Use to eat 100% corn scoops, so I called them to check well let me tell ya what they said ” We can’t confirm or deny about our corn” What the hell is that
Bad News Bears = GMO Corn
We must stop the monopoly of monsanto from buying all of the seeds!! This is an EARTH travesty no one owns nor can they own seeds. It is like saying a corporation can also own the Atlantic Ocean. Do all of you guys know that MONSANTO has bought over 11 thousand seeds and has patents on them. Watch The Future of Foods and become very concerned!! These guys are nutz!!!
Did you hear about the farmer in Canada that had Monsantos round up ready seeds fly onto his fields by another farmer using the Monsanto seed? Monsanto filed a lawsuit against the farmer saying that the FARMER violated the Mansanto seed patent and he had to pay the company and destroy his seed!!!!??? The Canadian whacko judge ruled in favor of Monsanto!?? This just goes to show everyone that JUDGES HAVE HIDDEN AGENDAS. $$$$! Vote out bastard hippocrate judges and put them in prison.
Thanks for your hard work! I live in the USA & there is NO food labels listing GMo ingredients! I have some cans of Great Value corn & I refuse to eat it until I know if it’s genetically modified. (Great Value brand comes from several major brands, so it’s hard to tell.) I am slowly waking up to this GMo nightmare! I should probably toss the cans, eh?
Rockie
Rockie -
I’d probably toss the cans. Even if the corn in them wasn’t derived from a GMO crop, chances are it contains citric acid or another processing agent that does was derived from GMO ingredients. Incidentally, if you oppose GMOs, please consider expressing so in a public comment to the USDA as they are considering deregulating genetically engineered alfalfa (read more here: http://nourishedkitchen.com/genetically-engineered-alfalfa/)
- Jenny
Great list, thank you!!
according to Trader Joe’s website, their store brand foods are also gmo free as of 2001!
http://www.traderjoes.com/action_issues.asp
Thank you for this list. I too wish it waas longer. It is scary what is happening to our food. I was curious if Silk milk should be on this list. It claims to be GMO free. Is their claim not true?
Thank you so much for posting this list! I just watched Food Inc. last night, so I’ve hoping to find a list like this one of GMO-free products. Thanks again and Happy Easter!
Firstly I just wanted to say- great list- great job on spreading the awareness. I did want to mention however that as a big fan of Kettle brand chips that I recently noticed to my dismay that only CERTAIN varieties were certified GMO free. My favorite flavour for example actually says that it “CONTAINS GMO FREE INGREDIENTS” and thus is not GMO free. That made me wonder- “Organic” being such big business and the economy being as it is- how many other “non GMO” companies feeling the pressure to compete in the economy have gone this route of carefully wording the info on their products to make them seem GMO free when in fact they only have “GMO free ingredients”. Something worth looking into perhaps…?
PS: I just wanted to second an earlier post about the great film “The Future Of Food”. This is by far one of the most understandable and comprehensive films on the topic of the threat to our food supply and explains exactly what GMO foods actually are and deftly explains the perverse politics involved.
You can download a very helpful non-gmo shopping guide with the link supplied at this site:
http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com/SG/Home/index.cfm
Thanks for the list! I encourage folks to contact food producers & ask questions – that way they know we care about having non-GMO.
I emailed my local supermarket (Wegmans) about their frozen corn to determine if it was non-GMO. I got back an email right away and then got a paper letter from the supplier of the store-brand. Answer – not GMO and they said they would consider my suggestion to label things non-GMO!
Great news about Trader Joe’s.
Awesome list. Thank you so much for it.
Hello,
Nice list, now if you check out some of these companies on this list, you will see a lot of them use HEAXANE to process their products, which is very toxic, I hust thought I’d mention that, you can google which companies use HEXANE. Also check out Wegman’s getting stuff from China, that was non Organic, but labeled and priced as Organic, the bottom line is money, so sad!!
God Bless
Gary
http://www.cornucopia.org/2009/05/soy-report-and-scorecard/#more-1375
i think of the favorite restaurants i patronize it makes me think of
possible gmo products they are using. no wonder we have so many health
problems in our great country. I am beginning to modify what I eat.
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU
Your information is Invaluable to us who wish to avoid GMO’s as much as possible.
THANKYOU
Over the past new weeks Whole Foods caved in to Pro .GMO Mr. Vilsack AT the USDA who with Whole Foods endorsement made GMO alfalfa completely deregulated in the USA . Whole Foods say they will co exist with GMO. i Boycott them now and sure they will be in the uses GMO list shortly. Shame on them ,2 faced company… Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm also joined up with whole foods to go pro Monsanto and Bio tech. All off my list of things to eat.
Here’s the article for the “whole” story….
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22449.cfm
I Have a quick question. If it is organic, is it non gmo.
Cyndi, if something is certified organic, it is supposed to be GMO free. But because genetically engineered crops can cross pollinate with organically gown crops easily, some organics have now been contaminated. So even buying organic doesn’t completely protect us from GMOs. It is very frustrating, especially now that big organic firms like Stonyfield have decided not to fight against GMOs.
Bob’s Red Mill
A friend recently gifted me with a bag of Bob’s corn meal. I burned the contents, didn’t want to ‘flush’ it. The product was not organic and the package made no mention of GMO status. I had to assume that it was standard mutant corn.
Thanks for the list!
Billy
http://www.drbillyhealth.com/category/gmo/
I just called the Vitasoy company last week and they told me that their tofu is genetically modified. I asked the questions several times and she gave me the same answer. Consumers should always be aware and know that just because a company may carry healthier items, it doesn’t mean that they carry non-gmo products.
On October 16, 2011 (World Food Day) I asked my “natural” food co-op in Minneapolis, The Wedge, to stop selling unlabeled GMO food. General Manager Lindy Bannister responded “We have no way of knowing if [GMOs] are in our products since they are not labeled.” She also said that labeling is “activist theater” that “does not actually work to inform consumers.”
When I asked “Have you asked manufacturers and suppliers whether their food products contain GMOs?” I got no response.
The Wedge is one of the largest and wealthiest natural food grocery co-ops in the U.S., and no doubt has the resources to research which food brands are GMO-free, just as Nourished Kitchen has done here. They lack only the will to do so.
Thank you Jenny of Nourished Kitchen for compiling this list. Thanks also to Gary for reporting that some of the companies on the list use toxic hexane to process their soybeans, and to Priya for reporting that Vitasoy now says their tofu is GMO.
Hopefully Jenny will keep her list updated with continual research, as she said she hoped to do in May 2009.
Great list! Saving it for reference. Is there any way to find out if Augason Farms… specializing in emergency food supplies is GMO-free? We bought their pinto beans and rice and before I use them I want to make sure they’re safe.
Thank you!
this is a great website to find non gmo foods awesome
Before reading this article, I did not know what GMO was or what was going on in the food production lines. Reading this article made me research a little on the way they process the food that we eat from the stores and I feel that it is unethical. I appreciate the help on picking healthier choices of food brands.
Reading this gave me a lot of knowledge on what GMO foods were and how to aviod them. It is hard to believe that people add things to the food that they know are harmful to our bodies . Now that I have this information I will be more careful in picking my food to make sure that it is GMO free.