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EarthKosher prides itself on providing kosher certification to companies creating diverse health products all over the world. Komal Herbals is one of those long standing distinguishable companies.

Komal Herbals is focused on offering highest quality Ayurvedic herbs and various other health product to our customers. We are always striving to source our herbs, spices, grains and other ingredients from trusted suppliers with full traceability to farms. Sustainable harvest practices combined with Good Agriculture Practices and Organic certifications are some of the criteria we look for in our suppliers, both, international and USA. We are working with cooperatives of small farmers in India promoting sustainable and organic farming. We buy steam treated spices and herbs when possible.

Komal Herbals offers delicious ready to cook Indian Risotto and Quinoa Khichadi, cold pressed oils, organic Ghee and many health products to help keep you healthy and enjoying life!

Komal Herbals created the first Chyawanprash- Praas- to be made in USA.  Komal Herbals Praas is certified organic, and has kosher certification from EarthKosher.  Their Praas is specially formulated, using a complex traditional recipe as described in the ancient Ayurvedic text. It helps stimulate metabolism and strengthen the immune system and is believed to improve concentration, memory and help balance stress levels.

In addition to so many other qualities, this product, helps enhance digestion and absorption, promotes detoxification and invigorates the liver.

Komal Herbals has an impressive and inspiring line of naturally caffeine free herbal teas made with 100% Organic certified ingredients.  All Komal Herbals teas have kosher certification from EarthKosher.

Vata AyurBest:
Delicious minty and cooling blend.
Helps balance fiery ‘PITTA’ dosha.
Help digestion and regulate metabolism and appetite.

Pitta AyurBest:
Stimulate Appetite and Digestion.
Promotes upper respiratory health.
Helps stimulate and balance ‘KAPHA’ dosha.
Helps increase energy and staomina.

Kapha AyurBest:
Stimulate Appetite and Digestion.
Promotes upper respiratory health.
Helps stimulate and balance ‘KAPHA’ dosha.
Helps increase energy and staomina.

Lymph AyurBest:
Unique blend of Ayurvedic herbs and spices help in reducing lymph stagnation.
Relieves temporary water weight gain which may also improve skin health and breast health of women. It may also help improve PMS symptoms.
Promotes healthy lymphatic system and healthy immune system.
Healthy lymphatic system is necessary for a healthy body.

Weight Loss AyurBest:
Helps in maintaining healthy weight.
Supports healthy digestion and metabolism while maintaining healthy appetite.
Helps improve circulation and reduce excess fluid which may also help in maintaining healthy weight.
Helps build greater energy and vilatlity.

Detox AyurBest:  
Supports Immune system and improves energy.
Promotes gentle detox and improves circulation.
Supports healthy lymphatic and respiratory system.
Pleasant and Smooth taste.

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Organic cold brew coffee made with purified water, 100% organic Arabica beans, all organic ingredients.

EarthKosher provides kosher certification to companies who pride themselves on the care and attention they put into their products, using only the finest quality ingredients that are both good for you and the environment.  Lucky Jack, is one of these companies.

Lucky Jack discovered the method for infusing nitrogen in their coffees making Lucky Jack the very first bottled cold brew coffee to pour with a head of foamy and silky smooth nitrogen bubbles.

WHY ORGANIC

The term “organic” is popping up more and more these days. But what does “organic” really mean? For coffee beans “organic” means the beans are grown and processed without the use of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers. This is significant when you consider that coffee is one of the three most chemically treated agricultural crops in the world.

Organic means great care is needed to raise coffee crops by using well proven methods of clean agriculture, biodiversity, soil maintenance and crop rotation, instead of chemicals.

Organic means the people who work every day to bring you your cup of coffee from this miraculous crop can do so year after year without sacrificing their own future quality of life.

EarthKosher is thrilled to provide kosher certification to the following Lucky Jack products:  Lucky Jack Double Black, Lucky Jack Espresso Concentrate, Lucky Jack Lean Bean, Lucky Jack Mary Jane, Lucky Jack Old School, Lucky Jack Slow Brew

HISTORY

In 1990 Richard Karno opened the Novel Café, a rare book emporium and coffeehouse in Santa Monica, California. Recognizing the rapidly changing world of both books and coffee in the 1990s, Karno began searching for a coffee roasting system and soon found himself in the Oregon woods trading barbs with a cranky septuagenarian chemical engineer and probable genius, Michael Sivetz, who built near mythical coffee roasters in a converted church located on the main street of tiny Corvallis. Soon Karno was roasting his own organic coffee beans in a Sivetz fluid bed roaster and by 1992, his company, Gourmet Coffee Warehouse was supplying coffeehouses, supermarkets and specialty shops throughout Southern California with certified organic coffees. His was the first and largest certified organic coffee roaster in LA and Karno’s retail stores, operating under the name Groundwork, became synonymous with quality and community outreach.

In 2013, Karno sold Groundwork to focus on developing an innovative line of cold brew coffees, espresso extracts and gourmet coffee concentrates. As a believer in expediency and challenges, Karno decided to locate his production facility in the Nevada desert because, what better place to make and sell cold brew coffee than in the desert.

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EarthKosher has the unique lens of discovering fresh new innovative companies, that shine from the inside out.  Fresh Origins is one of these companies.  Fresh Origins combines the sustainability, green thumb skill with a perfectionist eye and highest quality outcome. It’s hard to imagine the creativity and detail, Fresh Origin puts into each package of Flower or Herb Crystals- all naturally beautiful and all with EarthKosher, kosher certification.

Combining the benefits our great weather with a deep passion for quality and innovation, Fresh Origins has become the number one source of MicroGreens and Edible Flowers to America’s top restaurants and resorts. The farm was founded by David Sasuga, after growing flowering plants for 20 years.  David always wanted to grow fresh produce and the opportunity came unexpectedly.  Back in 1995, a local chef came to our greenhouse and got excited when he saw some basil seedlings growing there.  He wanted to try using them to accent his plate presentations and although it did not make a lot of sense at the time, it was then that David began producing these and other varieties of tiny, fresh-cut seedlings destined for restaurants in Orange County California.  Fresh Origins has come a long way since then, and David and his family produce a wide variety of MicroGreens, Petite™Greens, Edible Flowers, and related items for chefs throughout North America.

David Sasuga and daughter Kelly, of Fresh Origins
Fresh Origins’ MicroGreens have exceptional color, are bursting with flavor and have outstanding keeping quality due to the care and attention we give to our growing, harvesting and packing methods.  These MicroGreens are hand harvested daily to order, at the peak of freshness.  With Fresh Origins, there is no reason to settle for those lower quality locally grown, stringy Micro-Greens that lack color and flavor, and go bad after just a few days.

EarthKosher is proud to provide kosher certification for Fresh Origins unique Herb Crystals® and Flower Crystals®.  These products are as beautiful to look at as they are to enjoy.  
At Fresh Origins, innovation is a way of life.  We are continually working to imagine and develop the latest ideas in MicroGreens and edible flowers.  Our innovative Herb Crystals® and Flower Crystals® are gaining in popularity with chefs, Mixologists and Chocolatiers.  We have several products in development and introduce these new ideas regularly. Our product list is extensive with over 400 items, most are available all year.

EarthKosher Kosher Certified Herb Crystals® and Flower Crystals®

Herb Crystals® and Flower Crystals® are an innovative original concept from Fresh Origins! With dazzling, all-natural colors, an exciting crunch and incredible flavors of fresh flowers and herbs, these are spectacular new flavor ingredients. The pure color and flavor comes only from the fresh whole herbs and flowers with no added flavors or coloring! All are Kosher Certified. We start by growing the most flavorful fresh herbs, and edible flowers. These are carefully hand harvested at the peak of flavor and color content, then combined with pure cane sugar to create these beautiful and flavorful crystals. These taste amazing and will add an enticing and distinctive finishing touch to any culinary creation from desserts to savory dishes and even beverages. They are shelf stable and are best used before 6 months. They can be frozen for longer shelf-life. Very versatile and easy to use. Sprinkle on some magic!

These crispy granules with their concentrated flavors can be dissolved in any cocktail for a touch of garden fresh taste. They can even be used alone as a kind of instant, all natural “cocktail mixer”: Just mix Crystals with components such as water and vodka to create an amazing drink! Another application is to toss the Crystals into a poured cocktail for the ultimate finishing touch with a sparkling dazzle of color and flavor at the bottom of the glass adding dimension and texture to be savored in the last sip! Of course these flavorful Crystals can be used to brighten up salads, pair well as ingredients for savory dishes, soups, add crunchy flavor to fruit, pastries and other desserts such as sorbet, yogurt and chocolates. No added colors, flavors or preservatives. For Sweetening Tea: These colorful, flavorful Crystals dissolve readily in tea. Sweeten tea in a distinctive and delicious new way.

Our farm is certified for food safety by Primus Labs and we are a signatory to the California Leafy Green Handler Marketing Agreement.  Fresh Origins is a small family farm that is proud to be accountable for food safety.  We are puzzled by the many small, local and organic farmers across the country who are fighting against improved food safety regulations.  They feel they should continue to be exempt from having to follow food safety guidelines; instead their preference is not to be accountable for the cleanliness, sanitation and safety of what they produce- they just want you to take their word for it!  It just does not make sense; for example, all restaurants large and small must pass health department inspections, nobody should be exempt because of their size.  Our small family farm is audited several times a year by third party USDA trained inspectors and major restaurant companies.  We hope we are an example to others as Fresh Origins is one small family farm that is leading the way in this area.

We also strive to be efficient and continually improve the way we run our farm.  Sustainability is a major buzz-word these days, and a lot of people are trying to profit by greenwashing.  The fact is; farming by nature is a sustainable activity and always has been.  When farmers do not work hard to conserve natural resources, reduce waste, and maintain the land so that it will continue to be productive, they don’t survive.  These days, farmers are pointing out many of the things they have always done, except now it is called sustainable.  This makes it suddenly something very special. Fresh Origins can also claim to be sustainable.   For insect control, we utilize special screening to exclude pests from our greenhouses.  We use miles of sticky tape insect traps to minimize the need for spraying.  Whenever spraying is necessary, we choose safer materials such as Garlic, Clove, and Rosemary oils.  Our growing medium and growing trays are recycled and re-used.

 We carefully hand water over 120,000 trays of greens every day in order to conserve water.  An intricate drainage system captures any excess water, including rainwater in our reservoir. We have our own three acre bird and wildlife preserve with dozens of species of native flora and fauna.  This area is actually un-level ground and difficult to farm, so we leave it aside purely out of economic reasons, but these days we can proudly proclaim it as part of our green-greatness.  Our farm seems to be overrun with honeybees all the time, so they must like what we are doing here.  Our flower harvesters get stung a few times every year.  Many of our varieties are from heirloom seeds.  We don’t grow inside a plant factory warehouse building under artificial lights.  Electricity to run those lights, fans, cooling etc., is very expensive, so this kind of production is not sustainable. Because of our mild climate, the need for heating and cooling our greenhouses is greatly minimized.  Therefore, our energy usage or “carbon footprint” is significantly less than if we were producing in harsher climates such as the mid-western or north-eastern U.S. where it takes a huge amount of fossil fuel to heat greenhouses.

While it is fashionable these days to claim that we are sustainable, in reality, we do these things out of a common sense need to minimize wasted resources so we can sustain our business now and into the future.  It is hard to imagine a farmer who wants to waste expensive fertilizer, insecticides, and water, or
who would ruin the very land they depend on for their crops.  Since we don’t do these things, it seems we are now called sustainable!  Also, don’t forget, the carbon dioxide that we exhale is used by the plants to keep our planet green and happy, so really, as long as you are breathing, you too are sustainable!

Part of the new halo of so-called sustainability is to say we take good care of employees.  At Fresh Origins, our employees are a top priority.  We offer good wages and benefits including paid health insurance (we have done this for 20 years, long before it was mandated), life insurance, vacation, and holidays.  We provide steady employment all year, there are no seasonal layoffs.  We have an excellent facility with excellent working conditions.  Our outstanding staff takes great pride in the quality of produce we grow.  In reality, it is not easy to find good people, so when we do, it makes sense to do everything we can to take good care of them.  If not mistreating our employees makes us sustainable, we are all about it!

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Summer is in the air, and with summer comes the sweet scents of fresh fruits, berry picking, farmers markets and fruit pies baking.  EarthKosher prides itself on going the extra mile to find and provide kosher certification for health minded companies, that pioneer in the art of good quality food products, suitable for a variety of dietary restrictions that taste as good as they feels.  Breads from Anna is one of these amazing companies!

Anna Sobaski’s passion for helping people enjoy a gluten-free and allergen-free lifestyle led her to create her amazing bread. She is continuously developing her mixes and traveling the country, teaching gluten-free and allergen-free cooking classes and workshops.
Anna experienced first-hand the debilitating discomfort and fatigue associated with Celiac Disease, and the difficulty in finding a tasty and nutritious gluten-free bread. With the double whammy of having type-1 diabetes, and being a lover of all things food, her personal goal was to develop gluten-free bread with both the taste and nutrition of a whole wheat bread.

When we say a product is “free from,” we mean it.

We package all of our mixes in our own, dedicated gluten, soy, rice and nut free facility to have the ultimate control. Our facility is USDA and Kosher Certified. To ensure quality and safety we regularly submit our mixes to lab testing.

We source from high-quality ingredient suppliers that do not use equipment shared with wheat/gluten. Because many of us at Breads from Anna are celiac and have severe reactions to gluten (and we love to eat our own products!) we take every possible measure to ensure we are allergen free. We care about our customers and welcome your questions.

All of our mixes are gluten-free, soy-free, rice free, and nut-free. Many of our mixes are also free from corn, dairy, yeast, and potato. We do use corn and dairy in one of our mixes but this mix is segregated from the eleven mixes that do not contain corn and dairy. Please check the specific mix you are interested in for its complete allergen listing.

EarthKosher provides kosher certification to all varieties of Breads from Anna products.  We have discovered twelve inspiring mixes: Yeast Free Bread Mix, Pumpkin Bread Mix, Banana Bread Mix, Original Bread Mix, Black Bean Brownie Mix, Dairy & Corn Free Bread Mix, Maple Pancake & Muffin Mix, Pie Crust Mix, Pizza Crust Mix, Apple pancake & Muffin Mix, Classic Herb Bread Mix, and Cranberry Pancake & Muffin Mix.

Gluten Free Peach Blueberry Prize Pie Recipe – Breads from Anna 

Pie Crust Ingredients:

1 package Breads from Anna® pie crust mix
¼ cup milk or water (or non-dairy drink)
¾ cup oil
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten + 2 teaspoons water, for brushing over the crust (optional)
Filling Ingredients:

4 cups peaches
2 cups blueberries
¾ cup sugar organic cane sugar
¼ cup cornstarch or arrowroot (add up to 3T more if the filling is very jucy)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
A pinch of nutmeg
1 Tablespoon lemon juice
2 Tablespoons butter (optional)
Gluten-Free Pie Crust Directions:

Combine wet ingredients (milk, oil, vinegar) into a large bowl.
Add dry mix and gently stir until well combined. The crust will be oily but do not worry – this is how it should look.
Press bottom crust into standard 9-1/2 inch glass pie dish.
Roll out top onto a cutting board between two pieces of wax paper.
Place crust top in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. Once the crust top is chilled it will allow you to remove the wax paper easily.
Filling Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients: sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Whisk until well combined.
Remove peach skins and pit, and cut fruit into thin slices. Combine peaches, blueberries, and lemon juice, and stir into dry ingredients until well combined.
Pour mixture into the pie shell.
Remove wax paper from rolled out top crust and place on top of pie. Seal around the edges and cut small slits in the center to allow steam to escape.
Brush egg wash all over the top crust.
Bake for 15 minutes, then place pie ring or foil around the edges to prevent over browning.
Bake an additional 60 -70 minutes or until bubbly and crust is golden.

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EarthKosher kosher certification agency is always excited to discover new products that are as good for your health as they are for your taste buds.  EarthKosher provides kosher certification to many companies that pride themselves on using the finest ingredients, not only feeding your body with nourishment, but also feeding your soul.  Doc’s Tea is one of these amazing companies.

Doc’s Tea is healthy tea created by a health professional and micro-brewed with your health in mind. We blend Rooibos tea leaves with only the finest organic ingredients we can find. Each flavor has its own unique flair; from Organic Coconut water in our Island Coconut Tea to Organic Lemongrass blended into our Lemongrass Tea. We deliver on the promise of a healthy tea that is good for you and tastes good too!

Naturally Caffeine Free
There is a new super-beverage in town, and its name is Rooibos. The herbal tea called Rooibos (pronounced ROY-boss), also referred to as “red tea”, is becoming quite popular in Western countries, particularly among health-conscious consumers. The Rooibos plant is a South African flowering bush used to make a mild-tasting tea that is naturally caffeine free, has very little tannin and significant amounts of polyphenol anti-oxidants. We crave research on exotic superfoods and rooibos met our needs. No caffeine and no calorie herbal tea met the strict guidelines we require at Doc’s Tea.

Doc’s Tea, is also made with Monk Fruit.  Monk Fruit, otherwise known as
Louhan guo, is grown in Asia within it’s mountains.  This special fruit provides low- calorie and delicious sweetness to the tea.

Better tea = Healthier for you

Doc’s Tea (Formerly Doctor B’s Tea) is handcrafted to be the best possible beverage. Our great-tasting, good-for-you tea is made fresh in small batches at the craft microbrewery Dr. Kenneth Banks had custom-built.

Doc and his family – including his son, fellow dentist Christopher Banks, and daughter, dental hygienist Sarah Langford – take care to use only premium, wholesome ingredients, starting with heart-healthy Roobios tea (high in antioxidants and minerals, and naturally caffeine-free), monk fruit (a natural, low-calorie sweetener) and filtered water from local organic springs.

You’ll find real flavors in our teas too, from the lemongrass in our lemongrass variety to real coconut water in our Island Coconut.

You can rest easy knowing this drink is made by health professionals with your good health in mind. Free of artificial colorants, naturally low in calories (just 10 calories per bottle!), Doc’s Tea is certified organic, with nothing genetically engineered added. We’re also gluten-free and certified kosher.

Doc’s Tea is naturally the perfect choice for the whole family.

Handcrafted for you
We have no interest in making a mass-produced drink where quality is not a concern. Instead, we’ve enlisted many of the tools and techniques that are standards of the microbrewery industry to make Doc’s Tea your new favorite.

We hand-brew our tea in small batches at the facility we had custom-built. There’s no co-packer, no outside bottling company, no middlemen handling any part of the process.

From start to finish, we oversee every step of the work to make sure Doc’s Tea is the best possible drink.

Our standards are strict and unwavering, from taking time to filter our local spring water with a double charcoal system to brewing our tea at the perfect temperature.

For best taste, we brew our tea in stainless steel tanks and keep our batches just the right size to make sure every drink tastes fresh. (We’re a small operation but our methods are streamlined and efficient, so if we need to make a lot of tea quickly – no worry, we can do that. We just don’t want a single drop of Doc’s Tea languishing away in a warehouse).

Doc’s Tea has kosher certification from EarthKosher, is Certified Organic, Non GMO and available in six tantalizing flavours:  Pomegranate Acai, Island Coconut, Lemon Grass, Mango, Orange ginger and Apple Cinnamon.

L’chaim from EarthKosher!

EarthKosher kosher certification agency believes in nourishing the body and the soul.  EarthKosher provides kosher certification for small, grass roots, mind and body conscious companies all over the world. Earth Mama Angel Baby, is one of these dynamic companies.

Earth Mama Angel Baby offers EarthKosher, kosher certified, organic herbal teas for pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding and beyond. Each Earth Mama Angel Baby tea is USDA Certified Organic, certfied Kosher, and Non-GMO Project Verified, and formulated to safely and naturally address the discomforts of the entire journey of pregnancy and childbirth, and even monthly “female troubles.” In easy-to-brew tea bags, and eco-conscious packaging, effective and delicious, with the safety that you expect from Earth Mama Angel Baby. Trusted by doctors, midwives, lactation consultants and, most importantly, mamas.

Who Is Mama?

Mama is not just a marketing logo. She’s Melinda Olson, a nurse, herbalist, and real mother who believes mamas, babies and families have a right to safe, herbal, zero toxin products. Mama’s mission is to constantly research, test and refine her products, and educate people about the safe use of herbs and ingredients in personal care products.

Melinda began formulating organic herbal remedies for friends in her Oregon kitchen many years ago. Her love of organic gardening, passion for herbs and desire to find safe products for mamas and babies led to founding Earth Mama Angel Baby, an industry leader in safe, natural and organic herbal products. Melinda is an expert in the benefits of plant medicine, and continually balances her trust and care of traditional herb wisdom with evidence-based research. Since 2002 Earth Mama Angel Baby has been supporting mamas and babies through the entire miraculous birth process, offering nature’s perfect solutions to perfectly natural pregnancy discomforts.

Earth Mama believes in the natural process of birth, and the healing power of nature. Our mission is to provide safe, herbal alternatives for pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, and babies of all ages, and to help educate people about traditional plant medicine and safe personal care. We manufacture natural and organic products that work, combining generations of women’s wisdom and traditional plant medicine with the safety and assurances of contemporary evidence based research. If it doesn’t measure up to Mama’s standards, it doesn’t leave the building.

The next time you are looking for an EarthKosher– kosher certified, beautifully healing, peaceful tea- look no further than Earth Mama Angel Baby.

Life is naturally beautiful, with EarthKosher.

Earthkosher Kosher Certification Agency provides kosher certification for some of the finest natural foods companies all over the world.  Earthkosher provides small grass roots and family oriented companies with affordable and reliable kosher certification.

One of these exceptional companies is Tessemae’s All Natural.  

As the mother of three athletic boys, Tesse had to figure out a way to get them to eat their veggies while staying healthy. Because serving a dressing full of artificial ingredients was not an option, she created and perfected her own all-natural recipe. When her oldest son, Greg, realized how great it was, he said, “Mom, let’s go into business together and make this for the world!” As Tessemae’s All Natural grows its product line around the globe, the commitment to healthy eating and healthy living remains the core of the company’s mission.

Tessemae’s All Natural is a family owned company, producing some of the finest sauces and dressings available in the natural food market.  In addition to so many organic and natural choices of sauces and dressings- Tessemae’s All Natural offers a special Paleo Pack– these six carefully crafted creations all natural, vegan, certified organic, dairy free, gluten free, sugar free and of course certified kosher by Earthkosher kosher certification agency!   Imagine having so many sauces at your fingertips, pleasing taste buds with every meal: Organic Southwest Ranch, Organic Zesty Ranch, Organic Lemonette, Organic Cracked Pepper and Organic Ketchup.  There is nothing better than knowing that the food you prepare for your friends and family is filled with love and healthy mindful ingredients. The next time you reach for a special sauce to accompany your meal preparation, think no further than Tessemae’s All Natural’s.

Two things… make dressings with only the highest quality ingredients and always deliver phenomenal taste. As we New to the paleo lifestyle or just looking to spice up your current shopping list? We’ve picked our top Paleo approved sellers and bundled them together.

Life is about growing, with Earthkosher.