Top Bananas

• VegNews Magazine – Vegan recipes, food, news, travel, health, blogs, TV, jobs, events
• Ultima Replenisher – A natural sports drink with no sugar and a full complement of electrolytes
• New Orleans Food Coop – Louisiana’s only cooperative, mission-driven, full-service grocery store, 100% owned by the 99%!  With an emphasis on local and regional food and products, the NOFC is committed to increasing access to healthy, fresh, affordable food for our community.
• Daiya Cheese – delicious dairy-free cheese that melts and is yummy!
• Healthforce Nutritionals – Manufacturer of bio-compatible whole food nutritional supplements.
• Yelp – the fun and easy way to find and talk about great (and not so great) local businesses
• Mary’s Gone Crackers - wheat free, gluten free crackers in 5 flavors
• Lotus Foods – the healthiest rice for people and the planet
• Book Publishing Company- dedicated to publishing books that promote a healthful and sustainable lifestyle
• Turtle Island Food – Makers of Tofurky
• Follow Your Heart – Home of Vegenaise® our dairy free eggless mayonnaise alternative with no cholesterol and non GMO.
• WTUL – a progressive/alternative FM radio outlet in New Orleans, Louisiana, operating at 91.5 MHz

Plum Favorites

• Absolutely Spa Tacular – handmade soaps, bath salts, and sugar scrubs
• All Inclusive Health – personal training, group classes, fitness nutrition and holistic health
• Alternative Baking Company – Vegan cookies including a wheat free range made with barley flour
• Amy’s Kitchen
• Art with Passion – Paintings, collage and mixed media by Lori Felix
• Artisina - organic nut and seed butters
• Back to the Roots – grow your own mushroom garden
• Beanitos – corn free black bean chips
• Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods – Whole Grain, Gluten Free, and Organic foods
• Brad’s Raw Chips – Home of “The World’s Healthiest Chip”
• Burke Tower Garden – grow fruits & veggies without soil
• Coconut Bliss – delicious dairy free ice creams
• Cousin Mary Jane – Eat Hemp and you Eat Healthy
• Daiya Cheese – Soy free, gluten free vegan cheese shred alternatives
• Dr. Lucy’s Cookies – Delicious vegan gluten free cookies
• Earth Balance - natural spreads
• Earth Cafe to Go
• Eat in the Raw – Raw vegan Parmesans
• Enjoy Life Cuisine  – Gluten & allergy free snacks
• Field Roast – grain-based meat alternatives
• Follow Your Heart – home of Veganaise
• Food for Life – makers of Ezekiel sprouted breads
• Food for Lovers – world’s first vegan queso
• Frontier Coop – bulk organic herbs, spices, teas & essential oils
• Galaxy Foods – Delicious cheese alternatives
• Gardein – Healthy, innovative and convenient plant based meat-like foods
• Genesis Today – pure, organic superfruits, and whole food and herb supplements
• Go Max Foods – Vegan candy bars
• Harmonious You – Affordable Holistic Therapy in person, group and phone sessions
• Harvest Sensations – one of the country’s largest produce networks
• Health is Wealth - natural foods company
• Helen’s Kitchen - delicious, organic, healthy food
• High Country Kombucha – Probiotic fermented teas
• Holistic Life International – Wellness center in Metairie offering nutritional support, colonics, ozone, massage and infrared therapies
• Hurraw! – vegan lip balm
• Kevita - Sparkling probiotic superdrink
• Lakeview Regional Chiropractic Clinic
• Laughing Buddha Nursery -  Organic nursery in Metairie
• Living Intentions – raw food products to satiate palette and nourish your body
• Manitoba Harvest – Hemp foods & Oils
• Mardi Gras Zone – Bywater neighbourhood market serving vegan pizza
• Maya Kaimal – Fine Indian foods
• North of 49 Naturals – makers of Vegan Pate’
• Oh Baby Foods – 100% US Grown, non-gmo certified, USDA organic baby foods
• Plexus Slim – vegan weight loss drink
• Primal Strips - meatless vegan jerky
• Silver Hills Bakery – organic, sprouted, whole grain breads
• Sol Cuisine – Your natural source for healthy, delicious vegetarian foods since 1980
• Sophie’s Kitchen – plant based vegan seafood featuring Konjac root; a popular Asian health food
• South River Miso - nourishing life for the human spirit
• Soyatoo – tasty soy and rice whipped creams
• Starlite Cuisine – vegan taquitos and tacos
• Sunshine Burger – gluten free, soy free veggie burgers
• Synergy Clothing – certified organic sustainable clothing
• The Avatar Course – Self development and empowering training courses
• The Peacebaker – Newly opened Gluten Free Bakery in Metairie
• Theo Chocolate – Fair Trade, organic bean to bar chocolates
• Turtle Mountain – makers of So Delicious dairy free treats!
• Ultimate Kitchen Commando – helping you achieve your food goals one bite at a time
• Upton’s Naturals – delicious cruelty free meat alternatives
• Vegetarian Plus - the art of eating healthy
• Way Better Snacks – sprouted whole grain and seed tortilla chips
• Wayfare Foods – tasty oat based, dairy free cheese dips
• White Mountain Foods – Vegetarian soy, wheat, and yogurt products
• Whole Soy Yogurt - the most delicious soy yogurt on the planet
• Zevia – zero calorie, zero artificial sweetner sodas
• Zukay – Raw, vegan Kvass drinks and salad dressings.

Non-Profits

• Action for Animals - strives to end animal suffering through educational outreach, demonstrations, and media involvement
• Art of Living Foundation – an educational and humanitarian organization based in 151 countries promoting stress management
• Mercy for Animals – an animal rights organization focused on promoting a vegetarian diet
• PETA - animal rights campaigns include ending fur and leather use meat and dairy consumption fishing hunting trapping factory farming circuses bull fighting
• T. Colin Campbell Foundation – whose mission is to provide public education about the health benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet.
• United Poultry Concerns - Activist group that campaigns against cruelty to chickens and other domestic fowl

Restaurants, Cafes & Food Vendors

• Cafe Carmo (527 Julia St) – tropical food with lots of vegan options, mock meats
• Chef Charmaigne – Home grown creative cuisine
• Dream a Little Green – Vegan Catering & Baked Goods
• Meltdown Popsicles – locally based sweet and savory gourmet pops
• New Talavan – A Vegetarian Farm Community out of Carriere, MS
• Santa Fe Tapas (1327 St. Charles Ave) – nightly vegan items, Saturday vegan brunch