Island Naturals - Pahoa

Limited vegan options and lots of meat. an unpleasant staff. I have no idea what people like about this place, except that his only natural food business in pahoa.

Here visiting family and was ecstatic to find a place to get snacks food catered to our needs. A great amount of options in snacks, premade foods option to make build your own sandwich/burger. Found a plant based creamer my favorite kombucha as well. I feel like the pricing was around the same price back home in California. Which truly surprised us! The vegan chocolate chip cookies were so DELICIOUS. Had to get two!

Limited vegan options and plenty of meat. Unpleasant staff. I have no idea what people like about this place, except that its the only natural food store in Pahoa.

Like other reviewers I find they don't have as many great vegan options as most natural food stores do. Compared to other places like Mana Foods on Maui, the selection is far less and prices seem to be at least 50% more and Mana isn't cheap. Island Naturals used to carry vegan candy bars from Go Max Go but I haven't seen them for a year. Things I like tend to disappear eventually. They do have a good selection of local produce, especially some exotic fruits you won't find elsewhere. They also have more types of bananas than I've seen at any store in Hawaii. Years ago they used to have wonderful vegan carrot and lemon poppyseed cakes. When they stopped having that I found few reasons to go there. Some of their baked goods are still good, and the vegan focaccia bread when it's fresh is amazing. Nowadays vegan staples like Daiya and Earth Balance can be found at places like Safeway for far less.

Well stocked with Vegan products and foods: Tofurky deli slices, Miyoko's cheeses, plant based milks and yogurts, breads (that don't have 50 ingredients as other brands you can find on the island), chocolates and sweets, frozen goods, personal care items and detergents everything you would expect to find at a well stocked health food store. They also sell fresh fruits and veggies, but had a quite poor selection. Has a sandwich and smoothie bar that also serves hot coffee, a prepackaged foods fridge with few vegan options and a hot bar with no vegan option. Some items are very expensive, others are at a fair price.