Primal Kitchen Foods Founder Mark Sisson
Mark Sisson, bestselling author, media personality, ex-endurance athlete with a 2:18 marathon and 4th place Hawaii Ironman finish, founded Primal Kitchen® in 2015. He has been educating the world on nutrition and the benefits of healthy fat and high-quality protein for the last decade via his blog, MarksDailyApple.com which happens to be one of the internet’s most popular health blogs. Mark set out to create the world’s best-tasting, real-food staples, starting with a mayonnaise made with avocado oil. Primal Kitchen continues to deliver on its promise of uncompromisingly delicious, beneficial foods that are always dairy, gluten, grain, soy free, full of beneficial fats and high-quality protein. As Mark would say, Eat like your life depends on it, because it does.
Our Story
For 20 years now, I’ve enjoyed a daily 20-ingredient salad made up of turkey, salmon or tuna, sometimes some nuts like almonds or walnuts, along with tons of veggies like bell peppers, broccoli, cucumbers and artichokes. Although I love my trusty balsamic vinegar and olive oil topping, I’ve also searched far and wide for healthy and tasty salad dressing alternatives. Unfortunately, I’ve run into one of two scenarios. Either the dressings are laden with industrial seed and vegetable oils like canola, sunflower, corn and soy oil – the primary instigators in all manner of chronic disease – or they boast out-of-this-world health and ingredient claims but tasteless, bland “flavor.” I noticed the same dearth exists in condiments like ketchup, mayo and BBQ sauce. Sure, tasty enough options exist, but they all compromise your health and longevity!
So I set to work cooking up Primal-inspired salad dressings and condiments full of healthful, natural fats, superfoods, antioxidant-rich, high-ORAC-scoring herbs and spices… with no offensive, synthetic vegetable and seed oils and no artificial colors, flavors or fillers! The first product I set out to reinvent was mayonnaise – the holy grail of healthy fats. The complete lack of acceptable mayonnaise in-store today is appalling. Most options contain canola oil, soybean oil, sugar, HFCS… the list goes on. For Primal Kitchen Mayo, I chose to use one of my favorite superfoods – avocado oil – instead of canola or soybean oil. Combine that with organic, cage-free eggs, organic vinegar and salt and we’ve got one awesome tasting mayonnaise! Healthy mayo… who knew?
Now there’s no more sacrificing flavor for health. All Primal Kitchen ingredients are selected according to the strictest standards of taste, natural healthfulness and phytonutrient potency. Primal Kitchen is among life’s little affordable luxuries and created to be used extravagantly, so pour it on generously. The days of “easy on the salad dressing” are officially over! Make every bite a taste sensation.
Our Mission
Uncompromisingly delicious and nutrient-dense, Primal Kitchen® condiments, dressings/marinades, avocado oils, protein bars and protein shakes are full of heart-healthy, natural fats and ingredients rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. And, our high-protein, low-sugar bars are beneficial for hair, skin, nails and joints with 15 grams of protein from collagen, nuts and seeds, and only 3 grams of sugar from honey. Primal Kitchen made avocado oil famous via their innovative, heart healthy avocado oil mayonnaise and salad dressings.