'Know Your Source' has been at the heart of Organic Burst since day one!
We know exactly where our ingredients come from, including the beautiful surroundings they’re grown in and the wonderful people who harvest them.
We do this through our Direct Trade relationships, helping us create products we're incredibly proud of while caring for both people and the environment.
By working this way, we can ensure:
- You receive the most effective, highest quality, purest, and safest ingredients, ensuring unadulterated products for your health and wellbeing.
- By using your Bursts, you're contributing to positive social and financial impacts on small farming communities and indigenous growers in some of the poorest regions of the world.
- Our commitment to sustainable farming and harvesting practices protects natural surroundings, ensuring that nature is never exploited, giving you peace of mind with every product.
Our founders have travelled across 5 continents to some of the most remote, and even dangerous, places on earth to find the best of the best ingredients.
They’ve experienced severe altitude sickness, limb-numbing insect bites, driving for hours on stomach turning bumpy roads - but have also shared meals, laughs and unique stories with some of the most remotely located, interesting and loving people on Earth!
Discover the inspirational stories behind some of our Bursts
Our Co-founders Dimi and Katya with our Maca farming community 4,260m above sea level in Peru.
Our Maca
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Supporting indigenous communities in the poorest region of Peru
Organic Burst Maca is cultivated on a land fully owned and harvested by a community of 120 indigenous families, direct descendants of the Inca who still speak the ancient language - Quechua - and have preserved their unique traditions, culture and national dress.
They live at extreme altitudes of 13,000-14,500 ft (4,000-4,300 m) above sea level in Huancavelica, the poorest province of Peru with very few opportunities.
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Creating hundreds of jobs, improving diets and reuniting familes
Maca cultivation has provided an incredible support for this community, creating over 300 jobs, improving their diets and livelihoods and reuniting families as the younger generations are coming back here to work together with their parents.
There is still so much barren land around that many more jobs are set to be created here as well as nearby communities wishing to join too!
The life-changing improvements to this community are possible thanks to our Bursters like you, enjoying the goodness of your Maca!
Together we can help change more lives!
Our Co-founder Dimi, digging up some Turmeric with Ariyapala our Turmeric harvester, in Sri Lanka
Our Turmeric
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Supporting indigenous community affected by civil war
We source our Turmeric directly from the Ampara district in Eastern Sri Lanka, an area that was harshly affected by the civil war.
Our Turmeric community is made up of 92 organic family farmers who grow Turmeric on their own lands.
Unlike commercial products, ours is never grown on large farms or plantations but always directly sourced benefitting the local people.
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Contains 3.4x more curcumin than average
Our Turmeric is naturally higher in curcumin (5.1%), the super powerful compound that scientists have been researching for years.
This is a whopping 3.4x more than other Turmeric products where the variety, growing conditions and processing don’t match ours!
We use more fresh Turmeric per kilo we produce, meaning it is up to 2.7x more concentrated for more effects in the same serving.
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Free from harmful "Acid Yellow 36"
A harmful azo dye Acid Yellow 36 is unfortunately often added to turmeric to give a brighter colour.
This artificial colouring has been linked to liver cancer, neurotoxicity, tumour development and lymphocytic leukaemia.
Our Turmeric is tested and confirmed free from this toxic dye, and is always naturally vibrant and bright.
Our Acai harvester Edilson teaching our Co-founder Dimi how to climb a palm in the Amazon.
Our Acai
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Changing lives of the Acai harvesters and their families in the Amazon
Our Acai is harvested by the amazing local people that live (and thrive!) in the jungle of the Brazilian State of Para - they actually own and harvest their own Acai trees.
Thanks to all of you Bursters, these awesome local harvesters (acai entrepreneurs), can now gain life-changing income for their families (and get paid 10x more per basket than they used to before!).
Many of our harvesters have built better homes and are now able to provide their children with good education.
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Our Acai rainforest is now protected from deforestation
Because of the demand for ethical Acai - the majestic palm trees in the area of the Amazon rainforest - where our Acai is grown - are no longer being chopped for 'palmitos’ (palm hearts) and are now protected by the government.
The forest has been left to the communities in its entirety who make a living from harvesting Acai that grows on the palms. This preserves the precious trees, the emerald forest and saves the habitat of an amazing variety of plants and animals!
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Caring for the Amazon and its wildlife
Throughout the whole year our harvesters care about the Acai rainforests with much love and devotion. In return the rainforest brings great benefits and incredible changes to their daily lives.
They only pick a certain amount of Acai at a time, always leaving enough berries for the small wild animals (that co-habit the rainforest) to feed on.
The colorful toucans who eat the berries - spit out the seeds while in flight. This in turn spreads the gracious palm trees across larger areas.
Our Baobab harvesters singing songs of gratitude in Zimbabwe
Our Baobab
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Changing lives of women harvesters in Zimbabwe
By buying Organic Burst Baobab, you’re helping provide life-changing income for poor village communities in Zimbabwe.
We work with PhytoTrade Africa, a non-profit organization that aims to eliminate poverty through a sustainable and ethical baobab trade.
Organic Burst Baobab comes from organic reserves where the harvesters are paid a premium price. As the baobab trade grows local harvesters are able to build their homes and offer their children school education.
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Preserving the majestic Baobab trees and biodiversity
Baobab trees live for over 1000 years and are cherished by people across Africa.
With Organic Burst you can be sure that these stunning trees are never over-harvested and their entire ecosystem is protected.
PhytoTrade Africa also ensures the global best forestry techniques are in place so that the supply of baobab is managed sustainably for the long term.
Our Founders Dimi and Katya visiting our Chlorella and Spirulina farm in tropical southern Taiwan.
Our Chlorella & Spirulina
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An ideal location for the cleanest Chlorella & a supreme Spirulina
We’ve searched the whole world for the cleanest and most powerful chlorella & spirulina and we found them!
We source directly from an amazing small organic farm in green Southern Taiwan, surrounded by beautiful dense rainforests.
Our Chlorella & Spirulina grow outdoors in bright sunshine (even in winter!), pure air and crystal clear mineral water.
We love our farm, the Tawu mountains nearby and the kind, sincere and humble people that work here.
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Free from any toxins, cheap fillers and heavy metals
Chlorella & Spirulina can absorb toxins from their environment, that's why it’s crucial that they are grown in controlled and super pure conditions. An analysis of 17 chlorella products in U.S. retail stores by Natural News revealed that many of them had high levels of heavy metals as well as containing cheap harmful fillers!
Sadly there are no regulations that require companies to test chlorella & spirulina for heavy metals, radiation and toxins! So by spending your hard-earned cash and taking these superfoods you could actually be intoxicating yourself and not detoxifying!
Samples of chlorella from Taiwan were found to be the cleanest and purest in the world. Our Chlorella & Spirulina are tested at every stage of cultivation and production and are completely free from heavy metal contamination, BMAA, algal toxins and radiation. You can be sure you are doing yourself only 100% good!
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Great for the environment, soil and the entire ecosystem
Unlike many Spirulina products ours is grown without any Chilean Nitrate – a mined fertiliser used by many Spirulina farms to increase yield.
Chilean Nitrate is banned by organic standards as an environmental contaminant, polluting soil and sea life and there are concerns about its side effects on human health too. Our spirulina is grown with only plant-based organic fertilisers that are produced on the farm itself.
Spirulina & Chlorella are green foods in every way! They're amazing for the environment and their production needs less energy per kilo than that of soy, corn, or bovine protein.
Spirulina & Chlorella are huge oxygen producers, even more efficient than trees and forests in absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.