Organic NZ

from sipping soda to organic food champion

The unhealthy truth

Everything changed one morning, however, when the youngest of her four children had a life-threatening allergic reaction to eggs at breakfast.

Robyn then dove into a year of research on what is really in common foods. “It was this awful rabbit hole of realising what had been done to our food system, what hadn’t been shared with the public, what hadn’t been labelled… It just punched me in the gut to realise that we held ourselves up as this incredibly developed country, with this lesser food system.”

In 2009, she published the best-selling book , a damning look at the

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