Special Diets

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We Have Information on Gluten-Free and Several Other Unique Diets Available For Your Family.

Gluten Free

What does following a gluten-free diet mean? That you're embarking on an easy diet with a wide range of health-promoting effects. Instead of dwelling on what you’re giving up, consider that you’re going to enjoy a whole new world of delicious food options to meet your special dietary needs. You’ll be eating seasonally, choosing more fresh fruits and vegetables, focusing on meats, seafood, poultry, legumes, lentils, corn, and rice, and discovering fascinating ancient grains such as quinoa, amaranth, and millet. You’ll be able to eat potatoes, eggs, most cheeses, even chocolate (!)—and enjoy them without guilt because you’ll be taking good care of your body. In fact, you’ll probably end up eating—and feeling—better than ever!

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We carry a large variety of gluten free items, the brands listed below represent just some of the offerings we carry

Raw Foods

“Raw” is all the rage these days, but what does it mean to eat raw? And is it possible to get enough protein and other nutrients while following a raw diet?

Raw foods are those that have not been heated above 108°F to 118°F

Raw, defined

Most raw foodists eat only plant-based (vegan) foods, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes, and seaweed. Raw foods are those that have not been heated above 108°F to 118°F, depending on who you talk to. The logic behind this is that many of the nutrients in foods are extremely sensitive to heat. This is especially true of the water-soluble vitamins, like the B-vitamins, folate, and vitamin C. As Katie McDonald, a raw food chef and certified Holistic Health Coach in Rhode Island puts it, “The more you do to a food, the less it does for you.”

Raw food advocates also look to the enzyme content of raw foods, saying that cooking destroys delicate enzymes that could otherwise go toward improving the digestion of the foods you’re eating.

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In addition to our always fresh produce, we carry many more raw foods throughout our stores. Look for these brands and our Raw Foods section for more.

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White Dessert Wines

Also indexed as:Late Harvest Wine, Ice Wine, Fortified Wine, Noble Rot Wine
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Late Harvest

The most common method of producing a sweet wine is allowing the grapes to overripen, thus concentrating sugar and flavors.

Botrytis (or Noble Rot)

Botrytis is a fungus that causes grapes to rot, shrivel up, and dry out. Although this sounds (and looks) very unappealing, this is how the world’s greatest dessert wines come into being. These are a step beyond mere “Late Harvest” in terms of time on the vine, sweetness, flavor complexity, and, typically, cost.

Ice Wine

These rare dessert wines are made from frozen grapes. True examples are made from grapes left on the vines until midwinter, while inexpensive examples are often made from artificially frozen grapes. In both cases, water is trapped in the grape as ice and the resulting wine is highly concentrated. True ice wine takes the idea of late harvest to a whole new level. It is difficult to produce and consequently typically quite expensive. A specialty of Germany and, more recently, Canada.

Fortified

These dessert wines are made by adding brandy during fermentation, which keeps the grape’s natural sugars intact while raising alcohol percentage. These can be relatively light (Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise) or quite heady (Australian Muscat).

Dried grapes

These are made with grapes that have been laid out or hung up to dry for several months, concentrating their flavors and imparting a raisiny, dried fruit, nutty quality to the finished wine. Not as common as other methods but the specialty of certain regions, especially Tuscany where Vin Santo is produced.

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The information presented here is for informational purposes only and was created by a team of US–registered dietitians and food experts. Consult your doctor, practitioner, and/or pharmacist for any health problem and before using any supplements, making dietary changes, or before making any changes in prescribed medications. Information expires December 2025.