Organic labeling is everywhere! As a USDA Organic Certified brand, we love to see organic on labels. That said, the term “organic” can be misleading – and often misunderstood. So we’re getting to the bottom of it once and for all.

Here’s what you need to know about “organic”:

1. 95% organic content = certified.

If there’s a USDA Organic seal on your food, it means that the ingredients inside are 95% or more certified organic. That means it is free of synthetic dyes and chemicals, has not been processed to smithereens (no genetic modification, thank you very much), and has been grown on farmland that’s been chemical-free for at least three years.

If you want to eat healthfully (you do!), then the USDA Organic seal is your new best friend.

2. Organic foods are not necessarily nutritionally better.

Organic lovers like to say that organic foods are nutritionally more rich than their non-organic counterparts. We would love to say that too – however, there are no studies to prove it. Nutritionally, organic and non-organic foods are about the same. The benefit of organic is that you can chew on (and digest) all the nutritionally rich bits of your food without the added chemicals and synthetics found in non-organic foods. Less is more.

3. Organic food is nice to Mother Nature.

Environmentally-friendly farms that grow planet-friendly organic foods help to keep more than our bodies clean and healthy; they often lessen environmental impacts too.

4. Less contaminants mean more overall health.

Since organic foods have at least 95% organic contents, you don’t usually find gross things inside like antibiotics and synthetics. Which means, when it comes to meats, that the animals aren’t eating synthetic foods either. So the whole pipeline is organic-ized. (We made up that word. And we like it!)

5. We can’t say “organic” tastes better … but it totally tastes better.

Taste buds are subjective and we’re not up for an all-out brawl. But we will say this: when you strip away chemicals, you add a heightened sense of flavor. Organic food tastes delicious, wholesome, exciting – in our humble opinion.

The long and short of it is this:

USDA Organic Certified foods have 95% organic material. And 95% is way better than 0%. More organic content means less of the gross stuff: like chemicals, solvents, fertilizers, antibiotics, etc. In our humble opinion, less is definitely more.