Herbs & Nutrition

This is my go-​to health foods store in the city and I will purposely go out of my way to shop there. They have the widest range of products and selection and 95% of the time they have the best prices too. For example, there is a type of dried seaweed that I like that Whole Foods sells for $ 9.99 and Herbs & Nutrition carries it for $ 6.99. There is no reason why Whole Foods should have a $ 3 markup! I will support local, independent stores, thank you very much.
They have a sale section at the front of the store (between the fridges on the left and the cashiers on the right) as well as at the end of the aisles. At the back of the store you will find some bulk bins as well as fresh produce and more refrigerated and frozen items. This store does not have a huge bulk section, but luckily Bulk Barn is not too far away if you are looking for those types of items.
Come here for your teas, coffees, spices, organic goods, vegetarian /​vegan items, supplements, herbal products, protein bars and more! My favourite thing — they accept American Express — bonus!

Well stocked, easy to find and the prices were very good. I used to belong to a shaving club in the States and they sold this amazing all natural shaving cream. I came across a very good replacement here at Herbs & Nutrition and the rest of the beard care items I was looking for. Natural, cruelty free and cheap… highly recommend this spot.

I have been going to this store for 3 years now. I started buying natural food and other natural personal products around that time and every where else in the City is more expensive.
This store is also clean and well-​organized. They are friendly people and they were nice enough to let me return and exchange products twice — a duplicate and wrong hair color.
There is a language barrier with some of the staff but they quickly get their colleagues involved to get you the right info. Otherwise, the smiles are enough.
Check out the range of natural products they carry …You will not be disappointed.

Fantastic selection and so, so, so clean! This is my go-​to for nice produce and good bulk stuff. I especially like that they have a single use scoop policy for bulk items, with lots of new scoops so you never have to double dip. The selection of natural foods, produce, and body care is second to none.

clean and cozy
a huge range of products
nice staff
classical music!

This place has an incredible selection of natural cosmetics and organic grocery items. The interior is also really pleasant to shop in. I picked up a couple of essential oils here which are difficult to find and they had a very large range of sizes and brands. I’ll be coming back here for supplies!

After being a customer for years I don’t think I’ll be coming back.
I tried to exchange a bottle of vitamin D because the dispenser was broken and it was impossible! Yup, they wouldn’t help me :(
Didn’t want a credit or my money back or anything — simply wanted a like for like exchange and even then, they wanted me to fill out a form with my name and phone number, etc… And the guy even dared to say they were doing me a favour?! So rude.
Sorry but I’m done. I’ll go somewhere else where they appreciate my business.

I loved this store the second it opened in the Annex. Even when I moved away I kept on coming here because the prices and selection is so good. Only thing I wish is they had better hours. Open a bit earlier (especially on the weekend) and close a bit later (especially on weekdays). Otherwise, it’s the best!
Love you Herbies !!

Their prices are starting to be more expensive than Kensington Market by more than a few dollars on some items. My big pain with this place is when you want and try to return something, they get rude and defensive and it’s a big production at the cash register and multiple employees who don’t speak English trying to decipher the computer. They won’t return for money, only exchange and even that will not go smoothly. It’s things like this, that are a huge turn off when dealing with any business. Also, I had a container in my bag from something I bought a year ago and was using the container for something else and it set off their alarm. The vitamin isle is very cramped and often crowded.
I witnessed an employee with a bad cold blowing her nose over and over and then continue to stock the shelves with vitamins, without washing hands. Touching those bottles afterwards kind of cancels out the point of taking vitamins in the first place.
It’s a good store, but price wise, it’s getting expensive.

Herbs & Nutrition looks pretty unassuming from the front, but go inside and it’s BIG and well stocked with aisles of fresh, packaged and bulk products. You will notice that it’s clean and organized with classical music playing pleasantly the background. The prices are great (comparable with and sometimes better than Essence of Life in Kensington) and the checkout service at the front is efficient. Beats any other health food shop I’ve been to in the city.

Update August 19, 2014 — Still love this place as much as ever! They even tape product coupons ON the products themselves! Woo hoo! Also, they’ve changed all of essential oils, now moved to my favourite (beauty, face, hair, skin, make your own potion) aisle — so that you can sniff and compare essential oil prices to your heart’s desire! Don’t waste your time going to other health food stores (The Carrot charges 3 or 4 times what you pay here, Noah’s at least 2x, Essence of Life and Tutti Frutti in Kensington may be comparable in price, but are crowded, narrow aisled, difficult to navigate and not very, uh, tidy. Herbs and Nutrition is THE BEST. Hands down.

I’m super frustrated with this place. They undeniably have the best prices and a respectable selection, and they’re on my way home from work, but around 80% of the time, the damn alarms go off when I enter the store. The alarm is so sensitive, I’ve had paper set it off. Literally, the only thing in my bag one time the alarm went off was a printed journal article (with no bar codes).
And when I set off the alarm entering the shop, I’ve got to stand by the door (in everyone’s way), waiting for the cashier at the end to be free so that she can de-​whatever my bag, and I end up being shoved between customers and hands are grabbing at my purse and then my scarf is tangled in the strap and my headphones get pulled and my phone gets dropped and kicked and there are customers trying to get around us, and then they want me to empty my purse on the counter, and everyone is staring like I’m a criminal and I get frustrated and just leave.
This has happened MULTIPLE times. Once, fine. But MULTIPLE times. I would shop there so much more, but I find myself avoiding going in because I’m on my way home from work and I just don’t want to deal with this nonsense.
Otherwise, I would give this place 5 stars. The only other place in the city I’ve found that has comparable prices is Essence of Life in Kensington.

First time in this store and I went based on the reviews from here. The store is fair sized and had different selection of things. I did find their cereal/​granola section to not have a lot of choices. Another product I wanted was not in stock. They were professional but when I asked about products all they did was show me where they were as opposed to giving me more information regarding them (which is what I was looking for).
I did purchase products from the store. I have had bad experiences before at other Health Food Stores with expiry dates on their products but was happy to see that the expiry dates on their product were quite a long time away.
The store is ok but I still find that the prices are cheaper at the Qi Natural Health Food Store on Eglington.

My favourite health food store in the area. Great selection, great prices, friendly staff. What more could you ask for?
They have dried foods, fresh produce, herbs, vitamins, frozen foods, freshly ground peanut butter and a good selection of organic coffee.
I love this place!

My favorite natural health food store in Toronto. Spacious, clean, and affordable. The staff is incredibly friendly — always smiling, always greeting customers.
You will find that many items (certain brands) are priced lower here than at other health food stores. Herbs & Nutrition has everything from organic produce and local cheeses to vitamins/​supplements and skin care.
They will carry practically every «natural» brand that you can think of. Love it!

This place is so great that I will spend nearly an hour on the subway to shop here. They have some of the best prices in town but that’s just for starters. Herbs & Nutrition also boasts incredible customer service (friendly, prompt, and professional), fresh stock/​produce, and a neat & tidy store layout.
They also carry hard-​to-​find brands in supplements, bath/​beauty, and food ingredients.
This is definitely worth repeat business!

Love this store.
Lovely layout.
Sweet, helpful staff.
They have EVERYTHING.
I really love the herb and spices in the preweighed/​prepriced packages. I like the nice drawers they are in.
Best of all? Great prices.

I just love this place. I enjoy going here for the variety of products and Kicking Horse coffee… I find it to be cheaper here than most grocery stores. Although it is usually rammed and difficult to get down an aisle, it sort of makes for an intimate, small town sorta feel. The cashiers are always helpful and prompt too which makes for a very smooth visit.

This is the best place for anything eco-​friendly and/​or organic.
The store is fairly big considering how tiny some of these places are, and it isn’t just PILLS or VITAMINS. OH THANK GOODNESS.
They have an actual section at the back with organic foods, a decent selection of soy, rice and almond milk, and a great selection of bath/​beauty products or even household goods that are bamboo, eco-​friendly, etc.
I’d come here as my #1 stop for anything organic, green, eco-​friendly before I’d go to Whole Foods in Yorkville (way, WAY overpriced).
I really like the store and the people seem nice. The drinks section near the front is a great place to sample new brands too (I’ve mostly only seen them in the U.S.)

Yay. A clean, well-​organized store with competitive pricing.
This place has produce, dried goods, and a bulk foods section.
People who work there are nice. This place is on the new side; I imagine in one year from now, the same staff members will naturally provide people with better advice — through osmosis of interacting with so many different shoppers w/​different backgrounds. I had asked one cashier about whether there was any kombucha without caffeine. She assumed all kombucha tea didn’t have caffeine, but we discussed this and she then realized something new.
I’m used to asking very knowledgeable people at either Tutti Frutti and also at Baldwin Naturals, for Natural Product advice, and they are very able to supply it.
This store has a wide layout, as opposed to a narrow one. Plus the floors are clean, and there is neither any sort of off-​smell anywhere in the store, nor is there any trace of the moth webs that I’ve seen over a period of time in the Bulk section of a health store that I shop at regularly in Kensington Market.
I’ll definitely be coming to this store again, and I’d definitely personally recommend this store to any of my friends.