News, Views and Information From Kombu Online...

Last update: 24th June 2008

More Photos and Information on Site

This week we've added...

Another 75 new products :-)
More descriptions about our lines :-)
A few more photos (with lots more to come!) :-)

Wishing you a very happy online shop @ Kombu

Kitchen Equipment Information Is Here!

We are pleased to announce that we have added a mass of information about our key Kitchen Equipment range.

We only keep what we believe is the best equipment there is - and unless you already know exactly what you want, you are going to need some information to help you with your decision...

While there is a mass of information up here we always welcome e-mails asking for more information so please don't hesitate to contact us!

You can find the all-new Kitchen Range here.

Kombu Sponsored Film Festival Great Success

The finale of the first Bellingen Local Food took place recently at the Memorial Hall in Bellingen. The event was co-organised and sponsored by Kombu Wholefoods.

The combination of a delicious organic meal made from food sourced from the local area, an entertaining and informative movie followed by a discussion panel was obviously too good to miss, with tickets selling out a week in advance.

The delicious food, donated free of charge by local growers and prepared free of charge by local cater Amy Macrae of Guru Food, was snapped up by 110 hungry guests (see photo to the right of this article). The movie "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" was watched by 160 entertained guests, with many remaining for the expert discussion panel.

The series of three events that made up the inaugural Festival was attended by over 300 people - and the word on the street is that it is likely to be back again even bigger and better next year.

The Festival also raised a significant sum for the Local Food Network - meaning that the positive impacts of the Festival will keep on reverberating for months to come.

More Product Info Here Now!

When heading through the site you'll find that some of the items now have a little more information underneath the item headers...This is to give you more info but also to help if you use the search option. With 2500 items we're not there yet with every item but hope to get the lists completed in the next couple of weeks.

Coming up next week...A heap more product photos, more product info, more articles and some background on some of the bigger items we hold in store.

New Online Shop Coordinator

We're very happy to announce that Ingrid is going to be working hard to make this online store the best in the world...With more organic foods and healthfoods than anywhere else at the best prices possible...

So be expecting to see more photos, more articles and more offers on this site over the next few months.

Welcome Ingrid :-)

We're Growing!

We have just grown! Our store in Bellingen has just had an extension completed - giving us more room to pack online orders and more room for some great new products. Again this week we have added another 50 new lines and there are more to come...

Raw Goat and Cows Milk Available

We now have raw goats and organic raw cows milk available in store.

Pasteurizing milk destroys enzymes and reduces the vitamin content by over 50 percent. Raw milk contains beneficial bacteria such as lactobacillus acidolphilus which holds the putrefactive bacteria in check. This is why raw milk will eventually curdle and sour if allowed to sit at room temperature. Pasteurized milk, not having any beneficial bacteria or enzymes, eventually rots.

So why do we pasteurize milk? 1) It extends the shelf life of milk from five days to several weeks and 2) It enables the farmer to have lower standards of cleanliness.

At the moment it is illegal for us to sell unpasteurized cows milk for human consumption in NSW. We therefore only sell it for use as a cosmetic.

No Homogenised Milk Products in Store

We work hard to keep the food we sell as healthy as possible.

Homogenizing milk has been linked to the rise in arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and heart disease. The culprit is an enzyme in milk called xanthine oxidase (XO) which partly survives pasteurization (40 percent). When the cream in milk is in it's natural state, the fat globules are too large to go through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream.
Homogenization changes that by straining the fat through tiny pores under great pressure. XO attaches to the fat molecules (now reduced in size but increased in amount a hundred times) which are now small enough to get into the bloodstream and do its damage.

We therefore work hard to make sure that we do not sell any homogenized products at Kombu Wholefoods.

More Photos online....

We have added another 500 product photos to the site today. We hope you'll enjoy seeing even more of what you buy!

Busiest Month Ever!

September 2007 has proved to be our busiest month since we opened just over 3 years ago. A combination of this new online store and a really busy month in store in Bellingen resulted in some very busy and tired Kombu people...Tired but happy!

Many thanks for shopping with us. Us being so busy means that there are even more of you guys getting great food and that is good for everyone. Happy shopping!

Kombu Expands

We are currently busy building a new extension to the rear of our store in Bellingen. This will not only allow us to expand the store but will also give us a dedicated online order processing area. This means that online orders will all be processed in one location by dedicated staff - which will result in even faster deliveries of our orders.

Bulk Prices Drop

We have just agreed a great deal with one of our key suppliers - and we are pleased to be able to pass the full benefit onto our customers. Many of our organic bulk lines have dropped considerably in price, some by up to $4 per kg.

Kombu Newsletter Archive

September 2007 Newsletter (PDF Download)