Protein Snacks Before or After You Sweat? Questions around protein are in constant circulation in the health and fitness industry. How much protein should we eat? Is it best to have protein before or after a workout? Do we still get the benefit of protein outside of the anabolic window?...
The Value of Quality Snacking
The Value of Quality Snacking Let’s take a minute to discuss the power of snacking. For many of us, it’s one of the first eating habits we learn as children. We get snacks at school, after school, before bed, or as rewards. Snack time is a term we all understand....
The Truth About Carbs
The Truth About Carbs “I would like a bunless burger and instead of fries can I have an extra meat patty and a diet soda, please?” This sounds like the perfect carbless meal, but just how healthy is it for your body? Are all carbs bad? For almost two decades,...
Strength Training vs. Cardio
Strength Training vs. Cardio Strength training versus cardio has been an exercise battle for over a decade, and while we may all have a favorite, there are many things to consider when planning out your workout routines! So which one is better? Which one burns more fat? Which one is...
How to Build Your Own Workout Routine
How to Build Your Own Workout Routine For the workout aficionados, former gym rats, and highly motivated at home athletes, this post will hopefully entertain because it’s about exercise, and you love that. For everyone else who continues to struggle in placing exercise into their psyche and permanent calendar, let’s...
Forget New Year's Resolutions
Forget New Year's Resolutions Another year is here, and it seems like more than ever we are ready for a fresh start and some positive and healthy changes in our lives. While every January seems to bring the electric buzz of change and the desire to start fresh or create...
5 Ways to Prioritize Yourself
5 Ways to Prioritize Yourself Life is busy. There is no sugar coating this simple fact. It doesn’t matter if you are a CEO, entrepreneur, influencer, parent, house cleaner, or student. If you are over the age of five, the hours in the day are a precious commodity that get...
Why Cinnamon Really is a Superfood!
Why Cinnamon Really is a Superfood! For all you true cinnamon lovers, this information will be a treasure trove for defending your use of this truly amazing spice in everything from cookies to curry! We love the rich, earthy, hot, and sometimes sweet notes of cinnamon. We like it so...
Christmas Marshmallow Krispies with a Kick
Christmas Marshmallow Krispies with a Kick There is some unwritten rule that says the holidays must be filled with sweet, decadent, mouth watering flavors that rival desserts for the rest of the year. It is the season of pies, cakes, cookies, pastries, hot coco, warm pudding, and overflowing candy dishes....
Quick, Easy Energy for the Holidays
Quick, Easy Energy for the Holidays There is so much to love about the holiday season! The air is crisp with a little jack frost nipping at your nose. The winter chill brings in the holiday spirit with twinkle lights wrapping around roof tops and tall spruces and pines take...
Maintaining Routine When the Kids Are Out of School
Maintaining Routine When the Kids Are Out of School With the holiday season here, schedules seem to fly out the window with dinners, parties, and of course the kids are out of school to enjoy all the different events around Thanksgiving and winter break! While it is great to have...
5 Common Protein Myths
5 Common Protein Myths Protein happens to be our favorite buzz word, and can you blame us? We are super passionate about healthy high protein snacks and have spent years creating the best protein snacks on the market. Well we think so anyways! This is why we get a little...
Are GMOs Still a Thing and Why It Matters
Are GMOs Still a Thing and Why It Matters As people who love good, clean nutrition, we have particular things we look for when buying our food. Of course we want it to be plant-based, protein packed, and delicious, but we also look for the green and white USDA Organic...
Healthy Halloween Sugars
Healthy Halloween Sugars Trick or treat? That is the question of the season! Although, is it really a question? Who actually chooses a trick over a sweet and tasty treat? This Halloween we’ve decided we want both the trick and the treat! Let’s take a look at why it’s time...
Do You Really Need Protein in Your Cereal?
Do You Really Need Protein in Your Cereal? When it comes to the ultimate diet, the three macros, protein, fat, and carbohydrates, get thrown around a lot, swinging from good to evil in the public eye. The truth of the matter is the body needs all three in varied amounts....
Five Benefits of a Plant-Based Meal
Five Benefits of a Plant-Based Meal Plant-based, vegan, vegetarian, and meatless diets have been in social media and the public eye for some time now. It’s easy to glaze over these words, memes, and labels without a second thought because we’ve become so saturated by them. Whether the trend led...
Creating a New You Before 2022
Non-GMO, Organic, Gluten-Free, Good Gracious!
Do you have kids? Have you ever been in charge of snacks? Vegan snacks, gluten-free snacks, fat-free, sugar-free, nut free, seed free, carb free, and the list goes on. You resort to bringing a bucket of ice and celery sticks. Now, you are no longer the cool parent. What if...
What Diets Work?
If you’ve been reading our blogs for a while, you may already know this. However if you are new, we thought it might be relevant to tell you what IWON stands for. IWON is an acronym for I’m Winning On Nutrition. This is not a brag about the quality of our vegetarian...
IWON Organics recognized with Southern Pacific Regional Supplier of the Year Award from Whole Foods Market
IWON Organics recognized with Southern Pacific Regional Supplier of the Year Award from Whole Foods Market Retailer announces winners of ninth annual Supplier Awards Corte Madera, CA (May 24, 2021) – IWON Organics has been recognized by Whole Foods Market as a winner of the grocer’s ninth-annual Supplier Awards, taking home the...