Meet the founder
Plant-based, before it had a name.
In 1986, Mary-Ann Shearer started making halva balls in her kitchen — frustrated that South Africa had nowhere to buy real food without preservatives. By 1991, that frustration became Mary-Ann’s Wholefood Emporium in Craighall Park.
Forty years later, Mary-Ann is one of South Africa’s most trusted voices on natural health, the author of bestseller Perfect Health — The Natural Way, and still the person tasting every product before it earns a place on our shelves.
Our promise hasn’t changed: real, plant-based food, the way nature made it.
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