Welcome to the Green Grocery Guide, where we help you shop for top-rated, environmentally-friendly and socially responsible goods. All items selected have drawn our attention for a commitment to sustainability, innovation or personal health.

By applying a relatively straightforward method to rate individual products, our research includes important sustainability labels and eco certifications. We do our best to consider ingredients, production methods, packaging, distance traveled and disposability concerns. Four levels of colour-coded evaluation indicate sustainability; green meaning it ranks high while red indicates a low ranking.

For an overview of labels and certifications found within our posted categories, click HERE.

Help us grow the GGG! Send your suggestions for sustainable and socially responsible products to ideas@greengroceryguide.ca.

Green Grocery Guide: Lead Resesarcher
Celeste O’Neil is an MBA Candidate at Schulich School of Business specializing in Business and Sustainability, with a BSc in Food Science from University of Guelph.