Cape Town has great health shops around every corner. The goal of this article is to help you find a few of the best. Buy your supplies at health shops, fix your diet, and be healthier in general. In this way, you waste less money in the medical doctor’s office. Rather get better fuel for your body.
Especially within the context of the unscientific medical tyranny since 2020, we really should support holistic health businesses. Don’t fill the pockets of corrupt big pharma and the corrupt establishment. Moreover, do boycott companies forcing experimental, dangerous, fake “vaccines” on their employees, under false guise of fighting a “virus”.
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Wellness Warehouse
Wellness Warehouse is a health shop chain omnipresent in all Cape Town shopping centers.
The branch in Kloof Street used to be the largest wholefood store or “warehouse” in Cape Town. They down-sized this store in December 2022. Now in 2023 only a smaller health shop remains on the first floor of the Lifestyle on Kloof Center. It’s too bad that the local wellness scene is shrinking. But as you’ll see in this article, many other great options remain.
Wellness Warehouse stocks most essential natural health products. Any of their branches are a good option for health foods, supplements, or chemical-free cleaning products.
Some branches, e.g. at Cape Quarter in Greenpoint, or at the Waterfront, tend to be quite small as rent is higher. But it’s still decent. While e.g. Cavendish and Kloof street is around medium-sized.
Komati Foods
Komati Foods, in Lower Main Rd Observatory. is a great choice if you want good prices by buying e.g. nuts in bulk. They also have a lot of variety in their relatively small store space. As you can derive from their name, they specialize in foods. So there’s no medicine on their shelves. However, it’s great for unique wholefood products. Plus, they’ve got uncommon, but useful culinary ingredients, for both amateur- and pro wholefood chefs, alike.
In addition, they stock African herbal products such as:
- Sceletium: Calming effect as discovered by the Kalahari Bushmen.
- Cancerbush: General herbal health tonic with a very bitter taste.
- Hoodia Gordonia: Appetite suppressant, originally used by the Bushmen.
- Baobab: Powder made from the anti-oxidant rich tree fruit growing in countries like Zambia.
- Rooibos: The most famous tea of South Africa.
Soaring Free Superfoods
Also known as Rawlicious, they used to have a physical shop in Tokai. But nowadays, their products are sold only online on their webshop (along with being stocked in health shops). It’s a good online option for quick delivery, as they’re based in the Cape.
Rawlicious are superfood specialists focusing on products like Goji, Maca, Lucuma, Hemp, Cacao, Mulberries, Chia seeds and Baobab. They source organic ingredients for everything they’re selling. So you pay a premium for high quality.
They were one of the first companies to popularize the South American superfoods here in South Africa, through doing talks, presentations, and health workshops throughout the country. Nowadays there are more options available. But they remain one of the best, while expanding into other product lines like Kratom and medicinal mushrooms.
Their Rawlicious raw vegan cookbook (available on Amazon) remains one of the local classics on this topic. Although I’m not vegan, it’s nice to mix up your diet with some of these recipes.
By purchasing through this link you’ll receive a discount off your first order on their webshop. According to Superfoods, this is a massive 30% discount for NEW customers’ first orders only.
Faithful to Nature
Faithful to Nature has physical branches in Muizenberg and V&A waterfront. They started out as an online shop, which is still their main business. Thus, go online if you want a wide variety of natural local goods to pick from. The brick and mortar stores simply stock a few of their most popular products. You could order online, and pick up the goods at their physical stores. Especially the Muizenberg branch, in Capricorn business park, is right next to their shipping warehouse. Thus, it’s a way to save on shipping costs.
The prices at the online shop is generally 10% more expensive than buying in a physical shop. However, what you get in return is convenience, saving petrol, free shipping above a certain amount, and the large variety of products online. In their physical shop, prices are at the same level as e.g. Wellness Warehouse. Thus, they don’t compete on price. Instead, more on convenience and variety. check out their online store with this link.
Nowadays in 2023, Faithful to nature is no longer simply an owner-run small business. With corporate money backing them, they promote the “Man-made Climate Change” fear-mongering scam. However, man-made climate change doesn’t exist. It’s a globalist communist hoax where they e.g.:
- Shut down the small owner-run farms in Netherlands (but corporate farms stay open).
- Increased surveillance of general population.
- Implement “climate-change lockdowns”.
- Ridiculous claims that cow farts are somehow suddenly a threat to humanity’s existence. Thus we should eat chemical fake meat, soy meat, or Bill Gates’ Insect Meat.
- Climate Activists fly with their private gas-gulping Boeing jets to the far-left commie “climate change summits”. But they don’t want you, as ordinary man to own a car, nor to fly economy class flights without guilt-tripping.
- More taxation under false pretense of fighting another fake “invisible enemy” (“covid”, “iraq weapons of mass destruction”, “global warming”). The globalists fooled you once with “covid” & “lockdowns”. Will you let them fool you twice, like a donkey, with climate change now?
Nude Foods
Shop healthy wholefoods without polluting the environment. This is a packaging-free innovative shop in an up-and-coming part of Cape Town, near the CBD of the city. They briefly had a second branch in Newlands, but it closed down at the end of 2022. In their central CBD shop, which is still open, they have a small café to sit down and get a drink or snack.
They stand for zero pollution, plus chemical-free and healthier products. Thus, fill up a couple of the provided brown bags, then pay-by-weigh.
Examples of products include natural cleaning solutions, various nuts, organic coffee, cacao beans, whole flours, and healthy cooking oils, for which you can bring your own glass bottle of any size. Also bring a jar for fresh nut butter. First, weigh your empty jar, and write the weight of your jar with the black provided pen underneath the jar. Then fill it up.
Organic Zone
Typical of these smaller health shops, they’re a little on the pricier side, but with good variety of products. Find organic fruits, vegetables, ready-made meals, etc, on display. Their specialty is the great mix of organic and free range products.
The meat in the freezers are apparently all free range. Plus, try the organic coffee beans or free range biltong (by Farmer Angus). This is one of only a few brands of biltong I’d eat in the Cape, thanks to transparency with regards to ingredients. The shop also sells freshly baked sourdough and whole-wheat breads.
The original branch is in Lakeside (near Muizenberg) and its still open in May 2023. While the Rondebosch branch, closest to the Cape Town CBD, closed down March 2023.
Organic Zone recently underwent a business rescue procedure to save them from bankruptcy. Thus do some good for your own health and for the larger community by supporting their remaining Lakeside branch, instead of simply spending your money at the big corporate retailers!
Proactively stock up with healthy foods, eco-friendly cleaning and toiletries.
Back Area Gardens
This is an organic specialist shop at the Oude Molen Eco Village in Pinelands. It’s reasonably close to the CBD if you have a car. It’s not that large a shop, but it has a decent amount of quality organic fruit and vegetables. Obviously it’s a little more expensive than regular fruit and vegetables. But that’s the price you pay for food grown without chemical pesticides.
Back Area Gardens mostly differentiates themselves by stocking healthy, organic products. These goods are otherwise hard to find in Cape Town and usually unavailable at the larger chain stores and supermarkets.
Apart from fruits, herbs, and veg, they’ve also got freshly baked breads. Plus, a lot of regular health shop products, with emphasis on organic, e.g. organic coffee beans, instead of the same-old regular beans you find everywhere else.
They grow some of the herbs in their shop, pesticide-free, at their own “backyard garden” next to the premises.
If you want organic vegetables and fruit in Cape Town, then you’ll find 3 or 4 online delivery services which delivers a fresh box once a week to your doorstep. However, if you like to go to a shop and pick whatever you want, yourself, then Back Area Gardens is a solid place to check out. They’re not open every day of the week – currently only from Wednesdays to Saturdays.
An added bonus here is the store managers are knowledgeable about their products. Thus, you can ask them any questions that comes to mind while browsing their shop. This is not always the case with all health shops.
Lastly, the biltong kept away in the cupboard is top quality made with clean ingredients.
Simply Natural
This is a small health shop on the bottom floor of Canal Walk (large shopping centre next to the N1 at Milnerton). I usually only pop in there to buy some Yerba Mate tea – sold in 100gram boxes. This Argentinian tea is generally very hard to find in Cape Town. The only other place to find it is Mischu Coffee in Sea Point.
Simply Natural also stocks quality Sceletium capsules. Strangely you often don’t find this at the large health chain stores.
Apart from the above 2 products, it’s simply a small regular health shop. Another reason to support them: They’re not corrupt big corporates, heavily pushing the scamdemic fake “virus” narratives.
Organic Route
This small health shop in Hout Bay has a decent range of health products, free range meat, and natural organic supplies. Green juice is sold at R35, but bring back the bottle for R8 refund. Thus, if you drink it immediately you only pay the small price of R27 for the actual juice. For other products, their prices are on par with small organic shops elsewhere in the Cape.
The Organic Route is an asset to Hout Bay, which is otherwise a sleepy residential suburb of Cape Town.
Eirene Health Shop
Great small health shop based in Durbanville. Although they’re a little far out from Central Cape Town, they’re very knowledgeable about natural health and wellbeing. Instead of competing with large floor space and wide product range, their specialty is insight into staying disease-free naturally, along with live Blood Analysis consultations.
In business since 2000, their website proves their passion to stay healthy naturally. By supporting them, you’re not funding corrupt Big Pharma. But rather an honest small business, serving the public with real health information, instead of corporate scare-mongering and misinformation.
Conclusion: Health Shops of Cape Town
Nowadays even the original tyrants who pushed the lockdowns initially, admits suddenly that the “cost is too great” to the lives of ordinary people. As they need to earn a living for food and accommodation. But the people you can trust, like my own site, and Eirene Health, told you up front that it’s purely a communist agenda to lock everyone down. Plus, to steal our rights for their fake “virus”, which actually doesn’t even exist.
Don’t trust the corporates who now suddenly change their tune to fit the latest official “narrative”. Instead, spend your money with those who exposed the commie narratives since day 1. For people like myself, the price has been social media bans and censorship. But at least we guarantee to speak the truth. Spend your money with caring smaller health shops, who oppose the prevailing medical tyranny of the day. And don’t take the jab.
My 2023 Top Cape Town Health Shop Choices
- Back Area Gardens: Winners. Pick your own fresh organic supplies, within driving distance of Cape Town CBD. I prefer them to the Organic Zone branch below. The Organic Zone (in Lakeside) cashiers sometimes don’t know much (if anything) about the products they sell. But in Back Area gardens you’re buying directly from the managers, which is good.
- Organic Zone Lakeside: Runners Up. Easy to drop by after surfing in Muizenberg, with good variety of supplies. Some items are heavily marked down if it’s at the expiry date, which is obviously at your own risk to consume.
- Komati Foods: Bronze Medal. Like heaven for nut lovers, plus other unique culinary ingredients. For buying nuts, I also recommend Eden factory shop in Woodstock, and Whalecoast Nuts in Gardens.
Above Top 3 stores are obviously also judged by what’s close to me and the routes I drive etc.
Nude Foods in Cape Town’s CBD wins the Innovation Prize for Cape Town’s Health Shops, with their packaging-free business model.
Further Cape Town Articles
- Cape Town Gym Guide
- Cape Fruits
- Cape Town Food Markets
- Cape Town Wellness (original guide published in 2018)
Cape Town Organic Boxes
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What’s your favourite health shop in Cape Town? One of the above? Otherwise drop a comment below with further suggestions or questions.
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