Top 100 Health Food Stores 2026

The chain's 2014 second-generation location in the Kardashian-adjacent Calabasas foothills, one of Erewhon's largest stores with a spacious hot bar.

Independently iconic as a celebrity-spotting destination in its own right, distinct in clientele and layout from the Fairfax original.

Independent produce-and-grocery market, two locations, open since 1977.

The produce range and sourcing set the reference point other independents get measured against.

The mothership flagship store blocks from the original 1980 North Lamar location where four Austin natural-food retailers launched the entire natural-supermarket format.

The store that invented the natural-foods supermarket as a category, surviving a 1981 flood to build what became a $20B+ business.

South Korea's largest organic consumer cooperative, founded in 1986, with retail shops across Seoul serving well over a million members.

Defined the direct farmer-to-consumer organic movement in Korea; the world's biggest cooperative of its kind.

Member-labor food co-op with 16,700+ members and one storefront, open since 1973.

Defined the American working-co-op model — every member works a shift, and it still runs on that rule alone.

General store on a sixth-generation regenerative cattle ranch, selling the farm's own grass-fed beef, poultry and tallow soap on-site.

A pilgrimage site for the regenerative-agriculture movement, built around a documented zero-waste, whole-animal model.

Hong Kong's leading plant-based grocery-and-cafe flagship, a two-storey concept in Central with a grocery, deli and restaurant.

The regional reference for plant-based retail, backed by the Green Monday movement.

Farm store on a historic 1,400-acre Lake Champlain estate turned nonprofit, selling farmhouse cheddar and maple syrup made on-site.

One of the oldest working-farm retail experiences in the US, pairing legacy architecture with hands-on food production.

Nation's largest consumer-owned food co-op, 117,000+ members, 16 certified-organic stores since 1953.

Started as a 15-family buying club and scaled into the biggest co-op grocery network in the country.

Organic cafe, grocery and bookstore in Aoyama, open since 1976 as a combined publishing house and health-food pioneer.

One of Tokyo's oldest organic institutions, still open and still mixing books, toys and organic food under one roof.

Flagship 'Super Natur Markt' of Germany's biggest organic brand, sited on Alnatura's landmark clay-and-timber headquarters campus.

Showcase store for Alnatura's sustainable-building philosophy; the campus itself is a minor architectural destination.

On-farm store at Joel Salatin's regenerative farm, selling pastured meat, eggs and dairy direct from the pastures.

The farm store that put regenerative grazing and direct-farm retail on the map, made famous by The Omnivore's Dilemma and Food, Inc.

Japan's original organic supermarket chain (about 30 stores nationwide), anchored by its Aoyama store near Omotesando.

The store that brought organic and macrobiotic groceries into mainstream Tokyo shopping.

Founded 1974 in a Minneapolis basement; now one of the largest single-site natural foods co-ops in the US.

A founding-era Twin Cities co-op that helped seed the Midwest natural-foods movement.

The UK's largest Whole Foods Market, occupying the former Barkers department store on Kensington High Street.

The chain's most architecturally significant UK site; the grand food-hall building pulls in visitors beyond weekly shoppers.

Farm shop on a historic lavender farm and inn, set in restored 1930s dairy barns, selling lavender goods, Farm Foods pantry items and baked goods.

A working farm's retail core built into real historic architecture, drawing people who plan trips around it.

Adaptogen-and-cold-press-juice shop opened 2011 by Amanda Chantal Bacon; the original storefront that launched the 'dust' wellness-supplement category.

A tiny shop that became a reference point for the entire US adaptogen and wellness-tonic industry.

San Diego's only grocery co-op, founded 1971 as a buying club, fully certified-organic produce department.

The city's sole surviving food co-op, still tracing straight back to a 1971 buying club.

Organic supermarket chain founded 1995, now around ten London stores under founder ownership.

Pioneered UK organic-supermarket retail; survived a 2023 insolvency and relaunched smaller under its original founders.

Entered administration in May 2023; sold to a company backed by its founders, with four of fourteen stores closed in the process.

Workers' co-operative wholefood shop and bakery trading since 1971, one of Britain's oldest surviving co-ops.

Founding-era co-op culture, still worker-owned and run on collective decision-making more than five decades on.

Finland's leading health-food chain, trading since 1982, selling natural foods, supplements and organic cosmetics.

Set the template for health-food retail in Finland and still runs the country's widest store network in the category.

Consumer co-op founded 1936 as a 17-family buying club; now three stores, a market, and a service center.

Among the oldest surviving consumer co-ops in the country, still owned by the community that started it.

Worker-owned wholefood co-op in Chorlton, trading since 1996, known for bulk organic produce and affordable pricing.

A model of co-operative retail with a genuinely loyal local membership and strict ethical-sourcing standards.

Member-run food cooperative in the Park Slope Food Coop mold, open since 2016; members work shifts in exchange for low prices.

France's best-known food co-op, widely written up abroad as a working alternative to conventional grocery retail.

France's pioneering organic supermarket chain, opened on Boulevard Magenta in 1973 and now over 250 stores nationwide.

One of Europe's first organic-supermarket concepts; helped move organic food from niche shop to mainstream aisle.

Bakery-and-market inside the 1948 Brentwood Country Mart, stocking curated organic produce, cheeses, chocolate and wine alongside its restaurant.

A market built directly into an LA architectural landmark, functioning as both grocer and neighborhood ritual.

SoHo apothecary and elixir bar selling herbal tinctures, medicinal mushrooms, CBD and wellness tonics, with in-house herbalist consultations.

Helped define the modern plant-medicine retail concept that later spread across US wellness culture.

Burlington's community-owned grocery co-op, successor to the original Onion River Co-op buying club.

Vermont's flagship food co-op, anchoring one of the most co-op-dense food scenes in the country.

Worker-owned natural food market on the Danforth, organic and non-GMO since 1983, now two locations.

Toronto's longest-running worker-owned natural grocer, with a juice bar and wellness boutique built in.

Community-owned natural foods co-op with three Madison locations, founded 1972.

A Midwest anchor co-op with a following bigger than its store count suggests.

Atlanta's only cooperative grocery, open since 1974 in Little Five Points, 4,000+ member-owners.

A 50-year survivor and the sole co-op grocery left standing in a major Southern city.

The original location of the MOM's Organic Market chain, founded 1987, now the DC area's largest organic grocery brand.

The founding store of a regional organic-grocery chain built on a strict banned-ingredients list.

The world's first zero-waste, refill-by-weight grocery network, founded in Turin in 2009.

Originated the loose-goods refill retail model that zero-waste stores worldwide have since copied.

Herbal apothecary and tonic bar founded in Brooklyn, now with SoHo and Los Angeles locations, known for adaptogenic elixirs and vivid packaging.

One of the most photographed herbal apothecaries in the US, credited with mainstreaming the modern tonic-bar aesthetic.

Thailand's pioneering organic supermarket chain, founded 1999 and now 14-plus branches with in-store organic cafes.

Defined organic retail in Thailand and helped build the country's organic-farmer supply network.

The Middle East's pioneering organic supermarket and cafe, founded 2004, with locations across Dubai.

Introduced organic retail to the Gulf region and remains its most established organic grocer.

South Africa's leading wellness-and-organic retail chain, flagship on Cape Town's Kloof Street, with stores nationwide.

Defined organic and supplement retail in South Africa, closest thing the country has to a health-food department store.

Independent organic grocer with four Bristol shops, each paired with its own cafe.

A fixture of Bristol's ethical-food scene since the early 2000s, known for the shop-plus-cafe format at every branch.

Health-food store, bakery and vegetarian restaurant chain that says it was there when organic food first reached the Czech market; six shops plus restaurants and a cafe in and around Prague.

A pioneer of the Czech organic-food movement, still operating its original Old Town shop and restaurant today.

Austin's oldest food co-op, two full-service member-owned grocery stores, open since 1976.

A longtime local institution running a full grocery format on co-op ownership.

Member-owned natural foods co-op with two Minneapolis stores, sister institution to the Wedge.

A long-running Twin Cities co-op built on volunteer culture and community programming.

Vermont's capital-city natural food co-op: 10,000 member-owners and 400 local vendors on Stone Cutters Way.

A dense concentration of member-owners for a small city, and Vermont's local-vendor showcase.

Independent Australian vitamin and supplement retailer since the 1970s, stocking supplements, sports nutrition and healthy foods.

A rare independent supplement retailer that outlasted chain competitors by building deep category expertise.

Originator of Australia's zero-waste bulk-foods grocery format, founded 2012 near Byron Bay, now 50-plus stores including overseas expansion.

Created the bring-your-own-container, buy-by-weight retail model now copied worldwide.

Member-owned cooperative supermarket in Brussels, open since 2015, run on volunteer member shifts.

Belgium's flagship food co-op and a reference point for the member-run grocery model in continental Europe.

Large all-volunteer-rooted natural foods co-op on Watervliet Avenue, marking fifty years in 2026.

One of the biggest member-owned co-ops in the Northeast, still built on working membership.

Italy's largest organic supermarket chain, part of the EcorNaturaSì group and rooted in Verona with 300-plus stores.

Anchors Italy's organic retail market with strict own-label sourcing standards across a national store network.

Colorado's package-free grocery pioneer inside the Stanley Marketplace, stocking over 1,200 bulk and zero-waste pantry, body-care and cleaning goods since 2017.

One of the earliest and longest-running zero-waste grocery stores in the US, a model newer package-free shops point back to.

Hawaii's homegrown organic-and-vegetarian grocer, founded 1977 in Wailuku, Maui; the King Street, Honolulu store opened the same year and remains the flagship after a 2008 renovation.

The islands' definitive health-food retailer, running community farmers' markets and free senior meals since its earliest days.

Retail arm of iCOOP, South Korea's largest consumer cooperative federation, selling organic and natural foods to its member base.

Anchors one of Asia's biggest working consumer co-op networks, with a store finder pointing to dozens of member locations.

Member-owned grocery co-op on G Street, open since 1972 with over 8,000 member households.

A textbook college-town co-op: five decades of local ownership and farm-direct sourcing.

Philadelphia's neighborhood grocer co-op since 1973, now spanning seven locations incl. a farm market.

Grown from one Mt. Airy storefront into a multi-site network without losing its co-op structure.

Founded 1955 as door-to-door 'Vitamin Cottage' by Margaret and Philip Isely; first storefront opened in Lakewood, CO in 1963, now headquartered nearby in Golden with 165+ US stores.

One of the true origin points of the US health-food-store industry, still education-focused after seven decades.

H-E-B's gourmet/natural-foods banner, opened 1994 on North Lamar in Austin, within blocks of Whole Foods' birthplace; built around scratch bakeries, in-house butchers, and market-style produce.

Shows a regional chain can build a genuinely premium, foodie-driven natural-foods format without going fully corporate-national.

Organic co-op supermarket chain with stores across Korea, a sister strand of the country's farm-to-table cooperative movement.

A flagship of Korea's organic co-op retail scene, distinct from Hansalim's larger cooperative model.

Independent organic supermarket group founded in the 1990s, with anchor stores in Wellington's Thorndon and Newtown.

A defining institution of New Zealand's organic-food retail culture.

Largest food co-op in the Southwest, stores across Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Gallup, and Los Alamos plus its own distribution center.

A regional co-op network, not just a single store, built around New Mexico's local-food supply chain.

Member-owned natural foods market with a full deli and cafe, a fixture of Boise's food scene.

Idaho's reference co-op for organic and local sourcing, with a following well beyond members.

France's first organic and health-food store network, founded in 1948, now a nationwide franchise of small shops.

Legacy claim to being Europe's original modern health-food retailer, decades ahead of the organic-supermarket boom.

Upscale Southern California supermarket chain founded 1982 by former wholesale butchers who modeled it on Harrods' food halls; the original store still operates in Rolling Hills Estates.

The white-tablecloth end of health-adjacent grocery, long favored by affluent South Bay and Beverly Hills shoppers for its butcher counters and produce theatre.

Organic grocer-and-kitchen opened 1978 by the MacGurn family with backing from a local yoga center; the original Costa Mesa store anchors an 11-store Southern California chain.

One of the longest-running organic grocers in the US, built around a yoga/wellness community rather than as a retail play from day one.

Upscale organic supermarket chain in Hong Kong with several stores carrying imported organic and specialty goods.

The reference organic supermarket for Hong Kong's health-conscious and expat shoppers.

Community-owned natural foods co-op on Capitol Hill, plus a Tacoma location, known for social-justice-minded sourcing.

A values-driven co-op distinct from PCC, with a strong Capitol Hill identity.

Sierra foothills natural foods co-op founded in 1976, with a second store in Auburn.

Nearly fifty years feeding the Gold Country region on local, organic sourcing.

Calgary natural foods grocer founded 1977 by the Wilkes brothers, now three stores across the city.

Alberta's longest-standing independent natural grocer, built around local-supplier sourcing.

Organic grocer opened 1984 by Jimbo Someck after leaving a food co-op; the original North Park store anchors a respected six-store San Diego chain now 40+ years old.

A San Diego institution known for dropping plastic bags in 2008 and strict local/regenerative-organic sourcing standards.

Premium organic grocery chain in Seoul known for imported and domestic organic goods with in-store cafe corners.

Seoul's closest equivalent to a Western-style organic supermarket experience.

New Zealand bulk wholefoods chain with stores nationwide, trading over 35 years, built around fill-your-own-container bulk bins.

Pioneered the bulk-bin, low-packaging shopping format in New Zealand well before it became a trend elsewhere.

Melbourne health-food grocer and juice bar combining a wholefoods shop with a smoothie/juice counter.

A go-to stop for Melbourne's fitness and wellness crowd, more destination than plain grocery run.

Milwaukee-area natural foods co-op with four stores (Bay View, Wauwatosa, Mequon, Capitol Drive).

The main organic anchor for Milwaukee, grown to four stores while staying member-run.

Community-owned natural foods grocer on R Street, serving Sacramento since 1973.

One of California's older urban co-ops, still community-powered after five decades.

Member-owned grocery co-op serving the Ashland/Rogue Valley area, with deli and bulk sections.

The default natural grocer for a small tourist-and-arts town, with a loyal member base.

Scotland's longest-running organic and special-diet retailer, with two shops on Broughton Street and Brougham Street.

A pioneer of natural and special-diet retail in Scotland that has stayed independently run since the 1970s.

Brazil's organic and health-food supermarket chain, founded in the late 1990s with stores across Sao Paulo.

Brazil's reference organic supermarket brand, credited with popularizing organic retail nationally.

Southern Vermont's community-owned natural foods grocer, open daily with a full cafe.

A small-town co-op that punches above its size for a region defined by food co-ops.

Berlin's oldest organic supermarket chain, trading since 1994, with ten stores and its own organic Ufa bakery.

An early mover in German organic retail; its strict regional (200km) sourcing radius sets it apart from national chains.

Dutch organic supermarket chain that opened the world's first plastic-free grocery aisle in 2018.

Set a global retail precedent for packaging-free organic shopping that other chains have since copied.

California vitamin-and-natural-foods chain founded 1971 in Camarillo by Oda Lassen; the La Brea, LA store is its best-known city outpost, minutes from Erewhon's original.

A family-run, three-generation vitamin-shop institution that predates the celebrity-grocer wave by decades.

Independent organic grocer founded 1991 in Santa Barbara, now a small West Coast banner under the same ownership group (Good Food Holdings) as Bristol Farms and New Seasons.

A quieter, neighborhood-scaled organic grocer often named alongside Erewhon and Lassens as an LA-region alternative.

Singapore's premium organic and health-food grocer chain, multiple locations descending from its original Dempsey Hill store.

The default organic grocer for Singapore's health-conscious expat and local shoppers.

Taiwanese organic and sustainable-goods retail chain (Chinese: Li Ren) run as a social enterprise, with stores island-wide.

One of Taiwan's most recognized organic grocery names, built explicitly around ethical sourcing rather than just product range.

Independent organic grocer and cafe in Johannesburg's Rosebank/Craighall area, running for over a decade.

One of Johannesburg's established organic-food destinations, combining a grocery with a sit-down cafe.

Berlin-founded organic supermarket chain (est. 2003), now around sixty stores across northeastern Germany.

Scaled Berlin's organic-retail boom into a regional chain while staying independent of the big German grocers.

Independent wholefood shop and mill in King's Cross, trading since 1974, known for its own-milled organic flours and refill counters.

One of London's longest-running independent health-food shops, having outlasted the wholesale redevelopment of King's Cross around it.

Grocery chain founded 1999 by three Portland grocery veterans; the Raleigh Hills store was the first of what grew into roughly 20 Pacific Northwest locations.

Defined Portland's local-first, sustainability-first grocery identity a decade before it became a national trend.

India's premium gourmet-and-organic grocery chain, active with a rebuilt flagship store in Mumbai's Khar area.

The reference for curated imported and organic goods in urban India, though closer to gourmet than pure health-food.

Member-owned wholefoods cooperative store trading in Christchurch since the mid-1970s.

One of the longest-running food co-ops in New Zealand, still run on member ownership.

Community-owned co-op grocer since 1976 with multiple Bloomington, Indiana locations.

A durable small-city co-op feeding a college town's natural-foods demand for five decades.

Independent London health-food retailer running six shops (Chiswick, Ealing, Balham, Spitalfields, Stratford, Marble Arch) plus a web shop.

A rare independent multi-site health-food group that has kept expanding across London while bigger names struggled.

First Sprouts store, opened 2002 by the Boney family (descendants of a 1943 San Diego produce stand); grew into a 400+ store national chain.

Proved a mainstream, no-frills organic-and-bulk format could scale nationally without soda aisles or junk-food end caps.

Queensland-founded organic and health-food supermarket chain with stores across QLD and northern NSW.

A long-running regional institution for organic groceries and supplements in southeast Queensland.

St. Paul natural foods co-op with three neighborhood stores across the city.

A long-running Twin Cities co-op network known for deep local-vendor relationships.

Package-free grocery with Boulder and Denver storefronts, selling bulk pantry staples, produce and prepared meals in returnable glass jars.

Proves the package-free grocery model can work outside the biggest cities, with a returnable-jar system as its signature.

Independent organic and health-food store with a cafe corner, a longstanding name in Singapore's wellness retail scene.

One of Singapore's older organic specialty grocers, known for curated imported goods.

Long-running independent wholefoods shop in Bristol, trading since the 1970s-80s wholefood movement.

One of the older independent health-food shops still trading in a city famous for them.

Regional organic supermarket chain headquartered in Munster, selling groceries, produce and household goods.

One of the established organic-supermarket names in western Germany, running for decades under one brand.

Small neighborhood natural foods co-op in the Linden Hills district, one of the Twin Cities' older co-ops.

A tight, walkable neighborhood co-op with deep roots in a famously co-op-dense metro.