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All About Our Products & Facility

Discover what makes Philosopher Foods products so unique!

Allergen Statement

Allergens. Our production facility is 100% free of gluten, eggs, dairy, soy, fish, and shellfish. We process almonds, cashews and peanuts using shared equipment. To mitigate the risk of cross-contamination, we use Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) testing

Vegan and Gluten Free? You bet!

Vegan and Gluten Free? You bet!. Yes, all of our products are vegan and gluten free. They always have been and always will be. Even our vanilla is made with cane sugar alcohol so that it is gluten free!. We have a vegan and gluten free manufacturing

Difference between Sprouting and Fermenting?

Many people conflate fermented with sprouted. They are not the same, and we would say they are not even competition, at least not directly ... because they are quite different, qualitatively and quantitatively. Our fermented almonds and cashews are f

Philosopher Foodie Recipes ... Nom!

You can make your own organic almond milk using 1-2 tablespoons of either Naked Creamy or Creamy Alchemy Almond Butter blended with 8 oz of water ... It makes the most perfect, nutrient-dense, recyclable jar, guilt-free almond milk!. Start with our N

Will Heat Affect my Product?

If your package is exposed to high temperatures during shipping, or before they make it into your cupboard, not to worry!. Jars getting heating up due to high temperatures is no issue for our product, its shelf life, or nutritional profile. This is b

Discontinued Products

Cocotella Coconut Butters. Sadly, due to poor sales our coconut butters have been discontinued and we will not be making or selling them again. Chocolate Almond Butter. We are not currently producing Chocolate Almond Butter. That being said, if this

Safety of Sprouted and Fermented Foods

Fermented Gut Nuts. There is literally no safer nut that you could eat than a fermented one. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) fermentation is one of the oldest and safest methods of food processing and preservation known to our species. LAB achieve sterili

Are the Almonds Raw or Pasteurized?

We use Regenerative Organic Certified California almonds. California almonds could legally be considered raw, though they are in fact steam-pasteurized, which to many means they are not actually raw according to colloquial understandings of the word.

Why We Use Regenerative Organic CA Almonds

For 7 out of the 11yrs that Philosopher Foods has been in business we used raw dry-farmed almonds, which were imported from Spain. Now we use Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) Almonds from Northern California. Regenerative Organic Certified® (ROC)