Last year, I had the honour of speaking to Michael Potter, the man at the helm of Eden Foods, to find out more about their BPA-free cans. I was truly impressed by the man at that time and the company as they gladly paid an extra few cents a can to make their product as BPA free as possible. While this sounds like a small amount, most food producers, including organic food companies, work off of such a small margin that this would be a profit-killing move for most food producers, but not for Eden Foods. They make it work.

If you have ever drank soy milk or eaten any quantity of organic food, you have probably heard of Eden Foods. Eden offers organic tomato products, organic pastas, beans and traditional Japanese imported foods, as well as many other products. Their 2010-2011 catalogue features over 250 foods. Where did it all begin?

Eden Foods Company was started in the 1960s. Natural foods weren’t widely available at the time and a group of young people decided they would start a company that produced foods produced from natural whole grains and food grown without any harmful toxins and additives.

As word got out, Eden Foods grew into a natural food store selling whole grains, beans, soy foods, sea vegetables, cereals, nut butters and much more. The store soon expanded and added a cafeteria and books, inviting their customers for a longer stay. At the time, it was one of the few places you could get natural, organic and macrobiotic foods.

Soon enough, stores from all around called Eden Foods asking how they could get the food they were selling. They wanted to carry the same natural foods as Eden Foods did.

By 1972, Eden foods opened its first warehouse where they would establish relationships with Japanese food makers; they would import the sea vegetables, teas and most of their rice vinegar from there. Eden soon become a major natural food company distributing to the United States and Canada.

Eden Foods is cleansing the environment by:

• Becoming the Champion of organic family farms – Society’s brightest hope for positive change
• Using ‘Local first’ purchasing
• Purchasing All soy and other beans from USA organic places
• Making EDEN organic beans in custom cans with bisphenol-A (BPA) free linings
• Making EDEN organic pasta boxed in 100% recycled paperboard
• Packaging EDENSOY milk is non-refrigerated, recyclable Tetra Pak aseptic cartons
• Using natural pest management practices at all facilities
• Being Committed to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building technologies
• Using trucks that are ecologically designed, configured, and operated
• Using pallet wrap when recycling and reducing total landfill output by 50 percent
• Using post consumer recycled materials and biodegradable packaging materials used in shipping
• Becoming a member of the U.S. Department of Energy Clean Cities Coalition
• Having a company-wide commitment to reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink practices!

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