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New research from an international team has shown that a diet rich in whole grains, fibre, fruit, and vegetables can affect immune health. Scientists from Germany, the Netherlands and Tanzania report that urban and rural populations can have differing immune systems as a result of their dietary choices.

Two more new Grape Tree stores have opened, bringing the total number of stores across the UK to almost 130. The Grape Tree approach to healthy eating and quality affordable health foods can now be enjoyed in Bognor Regis on the south coast and in Keswick in the very heart of the Lake District National Park.

As the pandemic continues to affect how we live, Grape Tree is continuing to bring wholesome, healthy, good value foods to new locations across the UK.

Despite the pandemic Grape Tree has opened five new stores and more are on the way. The expansion, which will create dozens of new jobs, comes against the bleak retail background of shop closures and job losses across the whole of the UK.

The number of organic foods coming from the Grape Tree packing and labelling lines has now topped 50. Among the most recent new arrivals are tricolour quinoa which join chia, hemp and sunflower under the organic seeds banner.

Eating a Brazil nut might seem like just a simple pleasure that happens to have some real health benefits......But could it also be an act that helps save one of the greatest natural environments on earth, the Amazon jungle.

Take a look inside the new Grape Tree store in Chester and what you see is a sheer picture of wellbeing. Not just because of the vast range of wholefoods, the health-boosting promise of nuts, seeds and fruits from around the globe and the prospect of great tastes and flavours.

A touch of grandeur to this picture of new life in a historic setting is the impressive statue standing just yards from the new shop’s front door in Bewdley.

When it comes to healthy eating there is a basic factor that can be as crucial as food quality, nutritional benefits and taste. The cost. And a recent snap survey has shown just how dramatically Grape Tree out performs other suppliers.

Brazils have bounced back! After freak weather in 2017 left the Amazon with dramatically reduced rainfall nut trees in Bolivia, Peru and Brazil shed their seed pods early and the crop failure left the world dramatically short of Brazil supplies. The question was, as we reported in the Spring, would the Amazonia rainfall return to normal and would the trees recover this year? “

What were the foods that gave the last year its special flavour? Based on your choices at Grape Tree this is our chart of your plant-based top ten. With a few reasons why, you might have bought them.