We create food that inspires, enlivens and nourishes your body, mind and spirit.
The name Manna-Chi has been chosen as we felt this best described what our foods can bring you. Mana is a Hawaiian word meaning “All power comes from within”. Manna is also known as energy source in the Christian and Jewish traditions. Chi is a Chinese word for energy flow or life force.
This company has been founded in Australia, the Asia Pacific region of our beautiful planet, so it is fitting that we use two very important energetic elements from the Asian and Pacific Languages to symbolise what our company is all about: energising your life by putting energising food into your body.
Manna-Chi create a range of desserts and savoury delights with organic (where possible) and raw ingredients. Manna-Chi foods contain no cane sugar, no egg, no wheat, no genetically modified ingredients, no artificial colours or flavourings, no soy, no eggs, no dairy or any other additives. Some foods are made with nuts and we will state which ones do or don’t for those of you have issues with allergies. Some desserts may be include hopper Natural colours (100% fruit & veg concentrate).
The name Manna-Chi has been chosen as we felt this best described what our foods can bring you. Mana is a Hawaiian word meaning “All power comes from within”. Manna is also known as energy source in the Christian and Jewish traditions. Chi is a Chinese word for energy flow or life force.
This company has been founded in Australia, the Asia Pacific region of our beautiful planet, so it is fitting that we use two very important energetic elements from the Asian and Pacific Languages to symbolise what our company is all about: energising your life by putting energising food into your body.
Manna-Chi create a range of desserts and savoury delights with organic (where possible) and raw ingredients. Manna-Chi foods contain no cane sugar, no egg, no wheat, no genetically modified ingredients, no artificial colours or flavourings, no soy, no eggs, no dairy or any other additives. Some foods are made with nuts and we will state which ones do or don’t for those of you have issues with allergies. Some desserts may be include hopper Natural colours (100% fruit & veg concentrate).
Why do we use the ingredients that we do?
When you understand the philosophies “let food be thy medicine” and “you are what you eat” you realise that the food you intake needs to be of high integrity and full of life. We create food that is palatable, as well as sourced from ingredients that are of the highest quality.
Our food is real food, produced in a way that retains the nutrients and properties that nature intended them to have whilst at the same time being formed into foods we are familiar with today like muffins, cakes, ice-creams, burgers, breads, crackers, pates and much more.
Why raw?
Most of us have been living under an unquestioned assumption since the day we were born. That assumption is that cooked food is normal and a natural part of a daily balanced diet.
Cooking is something that was invented by us humans fairly recently in the story of our Planet Earth. If you look around you, only we humans and our domesticated animals eat cooked foods. All animals living in the wild eat their food raw.
The basis of human nourishment is obvious: it is raw foods!
Raw foods are simple, easy to find, fun to eat, enjoyable, contain thousands of discovered and yet-to-be-discovered health-giving nutrients, and conform to the biological design of the human digestive system.
Research also shows that once food is cooked (i.e.: food heated to 46 degrees Celsius or more, the higher the worse) many valuable nutrients and enzymes are destroyed.
Enzymes, for example, have many important functions in the body. They break down food, assist the immune system, carry out functions of the metabolism, and fight toxic substances in the body. Enzymes are key not only to help the body unlock nutrients but vital to all life processes.
To summarise, we can confidently say that eating raw foods have the following benefits:
* Raw foods are easy to digest
* Raw foods provide the maximum amount of energy with minimal bodily effort.
* Raw foods have healing powers that can alleviate many illnesses from low energy, allergies, digestive disorders, weak immune system, high cholesterol, candida, to obesity ; weight problems (weight normalisation), etc.
Our equipment
Our food is prepared by hand. We do use some machines. Our equipment is loved too; technology makes life easier for us. We use a dehydrator, a blender, a fridge and a food processor.
What is the magical formula to preparing our food?
Love – Fun – Creativity – Intention – Gentle Space
The people making your food, love what they are doing, love the ingredients they are using and do their best to ensure the food is created in a loving space. We have fun making the food, we laugh, we sing, in fact you can call it “raw-creation”.
Preparing raw food makes you more creative to begin with because you are constantly finding alternatives to the standard food most of us are familiar with. And it is also because the food is close to nature, and nature provides us with so much beauty, flowers, stars, spirals, we do our best to put that into our food as well.
Our intention when we are making the food is for it to nourish your body whilst your tastebuds have a party. And that the food is as true to nature as possible.
We ensure that we begin preparing the food in a gentle space, the food is made in a kitchen surrounded by trees, and we remind ourselves of our connection with nature.
