Super-premium, real food ingredients are the beginning of each Organic Bistro Whole Life Meal.   Flavorful, colorful and nutrient-dense ingredients make up each recipe.  Selecting organic vegetables, whole grains, legumes, fruits and oils is the beginning.  We balance each meal with wild-caught, sustainable fish or lean, vegetarian-fed, antibiotic-free poultry.  Finishing with organic herbs, spices and nuts for flavor brings our ingredients together to become tasty meals.  Real foods, creatively combined make our meals delicious and healthful.

Meet some of our Ingredients:

• Quinoa – a grain native to South America.  We buy from a California organic ingredients supplier who buys from either Bolivia or Peruvian quinoa growers that are certified organic.
• Wild Alaskan Salmon - certified sustainable and rich in heart healthy Omega 3 fat; we only buy wild-caught salmon, never farmed.
• Extra-virgin olive oil – ours comes exclusively from a wonderful family-owned Spanish company.  We buy in small batches to ensure freshness.
• Cranberries – delicious dried cranberries add tartness and sweetness to our rice pilafs.  They come from Massachusetts or California and are USDA certified organic.
• Natural Poultry - Our chicken and turkey breast meat is minimally processed and then roasted with a little water and sea salt. Nothing artificial is added.
• Legumes - edamame, black beans, canellini beans, lentils, green beans and sugar snap peas are rich in protein and fiber 
• Ginger – we use pureed ginger in a few of our sauces and love the hot, sweet bite it adds.  Our ginger comes from a farm in Hawaii on the "Garden Island"  of Kauai. 
• Rice – our meals have many different varieties of this familiar whole grain.  All of our rice comes from California and is USDA certified organic.
• Sundried tomatoes – these delicious additions to some of our meals come from Turkey.  The climate is just right for growing and drying tomatoes with lots of flavor.  These tomatoes are USDA certified organic from farm to our kitchen.
• Walnuts - we use California-grown organic walnuts.  Their delicious flavor, healthy fats and fiber rich nutrition make walnuts a perfect addition to our pilafs.
• Matcha Green Tea - our certified organic green tea comes from Japan where a centuries old process makes it into a fine powder that we use in a dressing on our vegetables.

Seafood sourcing policy

Our health and enjoyment of food is something we cannot take for granted when it comes to fish and seafood.  The world’s oceans show many signs of overfishing and environmental degradation.  If you eat fish, you have a voice, a choice and a say in what happens to world fish stocks over the next 50 years.  At Organic Bistro, we have taken a proactive stance and choose to source our fish and seafood from Marine Stewardship Council certified fisheries only.  The Marine Stewardship Council is an international non-profit that reviews fishing practices from applicant fisheries and certifies them after extensive review of management practices.  Buying seafood from MSC certified fisheries is how we do our part to make sure there is enough delicious seafood for everyone decades from now.  Vote with your pocketbook and ask at your favorite fish counter if their seafood is MSC certified.