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Collection of Mediterranean olive oils and vinegars

Oils & Vinegars

At the heart of every Mediterranean kitchen is a great olive oil. Our Oils & Vinegars collection brings together the finest organic extra virgin olive oils from Greece and Cyprus alongside traditional wine vinegars, all produced using time-honoured methods passed down through generations.We source exclusively from small-scale producers who still hand-pick their olives at peak ripeness and cold-press within hours of harvest. The result is an oil with exceptional polyphenol content, vivid green-gold colour, and a flavour profile — grassy, peppery, lightly fruity — that supermarket olive oils simply cannot match.Alongside our signature olive oils, you'll find aged red and white wine vinegars, apple cider vinegar, and pomegranate and fig vinegars — all organic and traditionally fermented. These are pantry anchors: the ingredients that transform a simple salad, a slow-cooked stew, or a quick marinade from ordinary to extraordinary.Whether you're drizzling over a Greek salad, finishing a soup, or simply dipping good bread, the difference a quality oil makes is immediate and undeniable. Discover why Greek and Cypriot oils consistently rank among the world's finest.

Variety of organic dried pulses including lentils, chickpeas and beans

Organic Pulses & Legumes

Pulses have been the cornerstone of Mediterranean cooking for thousands of years — and for good reason. Cheap, versatile, deeply nutritious, and with a shelf life measured in years, they are perhaps the ultimate pantry staple.Our Organic Pulses & Legumes collection spans the full breadth of Greek and Cypriot cooking traditions: earthy green and red lentils for fakes soupa and dhal, creamy cannellini beans for fasolada, dramatic gigantes for the iconic plaki dish, black-eyed beans for the Cypriot black-eyed pea salad (louvi), and chickpeas for everything from revithia stew to silky homemade hummus.Every pulse in this collection is certified organic — grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilisers, on soil that is managed to preserve its long-term fertility. You can taste the difference in the cleaner, earthier flavour, and in the way they hold their texture through a long braise without turning mushy.High in plant protein, dietary fibre, and slow-release carbohydrates, these are genuinely functional foods that nourish as much as they satisfy. Stock your larder once and you have the foundation of weeks of meals.

Assortment of Mediterranean grains and pasta varieties

Grains & Pasta

The grains and pasta of the Mediterranean tell a story that stretches back millennia — from the ancient wheats of the Fertile Crescent to the hand-cut pasta shapes still made by grandmothers in Cypriot villages today.Our Grains & Pasta collection celebrates this heritage with a range that goes far beyond supermarket staples. Discover trahana — the traditional fermented wheat-and-milk granules unique to Greek and Cypriot cooking, which dissolve into the most comforting, tangy winter soup imaginable. Find hilopites, the flat hand-cut egg pasta of the Greek mainland, perfect with a braised lamb ragu. Explore kritharaki orzo, the rice-shaped pasta essential to Greek cooking, and freekeh, the smoky roasted green wheat that has been grown in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries.Alongside these distinctive varieties, we stock organic bulgur wheat, farro, spelt, and pearl barley — ancient grains with a nutty depth and nutritional profile that modern white rice simply cannot match. Every product in this collection is organic, sourced from producers who still respect traditional growing and milling practices.Cook your way through Greek and Cypriot recipe traditions and discover why these time-tested grains and pastas have endured for so long.

Greek dried herbs including oregano, thyme and mountain herbs

Greek Herbs & Spices

There is a reason Greek mountain oregano has no equal: grown wild at altitude on the slopes of the Peloponnese, Crete, and the Aegean islands, it develops an intensity of aromatic oils that cultivated varieties cannot replicate. When you rub a pinch between your fingers and the scent hits you, you understand instantly why it is non-negotiable in a proper Greek kitchen.Our Herbs & Spices collection brings together the defining flavours of Greek and Cypriot cooking, all organically grown and carefully dried to preserve their essential oils. Alongside the legendary oregano, you'll find dried thyme, sage, mint, and bay leaves — the herbs that scent a Cypriot hillside in midsummer and, transferred to your kitchen, transform a simple roast chicken or a bowl of lentil soup.We also carry the wider Mediterranean spice palette: za'atar, sumac, mahlab (the cherry stone kernel essential to Cypriot baking), and mastic-adjacent aromatics that bring genuine complexity to both savoury and sweet dishes. These are not the faded, grey-green powders you find in supermarket jars. They are vivid, intensely aromatic, and worth seeking out.Stock your spice rack with these and you have the building blocks of an entire culinary tradition.

Jars of golden Greek honey with honeycomb

Greek Honey & Sweeteners

Greece produces some of the finest honey in the world — and the reason is simple: the Greek landscape. The wild thyme that carpets the hillsides of Crete and the Peloponnese, the resinous pine forests of Attica and Evia, the wildflower meadows of the mainland mountains — this is a forager's paradise, and the honey bees make the most of it.Our Greek Honey collection brings you three distinct varieties, each with its own character. Thyme honey — dense, aromatic, with a lingering herbal warmth — is considered the pinnacle of Greek honey production and commands a premium the world over. Pine honey is darker, less sweet, mineral-rich, and deeply complex; produced in the northern forests, it is almost unknown outside Greece. Wildflower honey is the most approachable — golden, floral, and endlessly versatile.Alongside these pure honeys, we stock carob molasses and grape molasses (petimezi) — the ancient Greek sweeteners that predate refined sugar in this part of the world. Thick, earthy, and complex, they are extraordinary drizzled over yoghurt, stirred into tahini, or used as a natural sweetener in baking.All our honeys are raw and unfiltered, preserving the enzymes, pollen, and micronutrients that make honey genuinely nutritious. Taste the difference.

Traditional Greek coffee in a small cup with briki pot

Greek Coffee

Making Greek coffee is not simply a morning ritual — it is a ceremony. The small briki pot, the measured spoonful of ultra-fine grounds, the careful watch over the flame as the coffee froths and rises, and the patient wait for the grounds to settle before the first sip. It is slow, deliberate, and worth every second.Greek and Cypriot coffee (ellinikos kafes) is made with a distinct roast — medium-dark, finely ground to a powder, and prepared unfiltered so the grounds settle at the bottom of the cup. The flavour is rich, slightly bitter, intensely aromatic, and unlike any coffee produced with a modern machine. A single small cup delivers a caffeine hit and a depth of flavour that four espressos cannot match for character.Our Greek coffee is sourced from the same traditional roasters that have supplied Greek households for generations. Whether you take it sketo (unsweetened), metrio (medium sweet), or glykos (sweet), the quality of the base coffee makes all the difference.Share it with good company, read the grounds at the bottom of the cup, and settle in. Greek coffee is not something to rush.Please note: coffee is subject to standard-rate VAT (20%) in the UK.

Mediterranean nuts and dried fruits including pistachios and figs

Nuts & Dried Fruit

The orchards and groves of Greece and Cyprus have been producing exceptional fruit and nuts for millennia. The ancient Greeks knew that drying fruit and preserving nuts was a way to capture the flavour of harvest and carry it through the year — a tradition that continues to produce some of the world's most distinctive ingredients.Our Nuts & Dried Fruit collection leads with Aegina pistachios — the PDO-protected variety grown exclusively on the Greek island of Aegina, considered by many food experts to be the world's finest pistachio. Smaller, greener, and more intensely flavoured than commercial Iranian or Californian varieties, they are worth experiencing at least once if you consider yourself a food lover.Alongside the pistachios, you'll find Corinthian currants — one of Greece's oldest export products, smaller and more intensely flavoured than ordinary raisins, essential in Greek baking. Dried Smyrna figs, soft and caramel-sweet. Sulphite-free dried apricots with a deep amber colour and concentrated sweetness that the bright-orange supermarket version cannot match.All our nuts and dried fruits are certified organic, free from artificial preservatives and unnecessary additives. Perfect for snacking, baking, cooking, or adding to a cheese board.

Jars of Mediterranean preserved foods including olives and vegetables

Jarred & Preserved Foods

The Mediterranean art of preserving — in olive oil, in brine, in vinegar, in salt — is one of the oldest food traditions in the world and produces some of its most intensely flavoured ingredients. Our Jarred & Preserved Foods collection brings together the finest examples from Greece and Cyprus.At the centre is the olive: Kalamata (the iconic dark, almond-shaped variety with its rich, fruity depth), Halkidiki (the large, meaty green olive from northern Greece), and Thassos (the oil-cured black olive with its wrinkled skin and intensely concentrated flavour). These are olives that taste of their origin — nothing like the bland, brine-soaked ovals you find in supermarket tins.Beyond olives, this collection spans the whole breadth of preserved Mediterranean flavour: vine leaves in brine for rolling your own dolmades at home, brined capers from the Aegean islands (among the world's finest), jarred artichoke hearts in olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes with an intensity that fresh tomatoes cannot achieve, and gigantes — the giant white butter beans that form the basis of the beloved baked dish gigantes plaki.Stock these and you have the foundations of a Greek meze table ready at any moment.

Traditional Greek fruit preserves and jams in glass jars

Preserves, Jams & Spoon Sweets

The tradition of the Greek spoon sweet — glyko tou koutaliou — is one of the most charming in Mediterranean food culture. A small spoonful of preserve, offered on a tiny dish alongside a cold glass of water and a coffee, is the customary welcome to any guest in a Greek or Cypriot home. These are not ordinary jams: they are whole fruits or pieces of rind preserved in a thick syrup, made to be savoured slowly.Our Preserves, Jams & Spoon Sweets collection celebrates this tradition. Fig jam made from sun-ripened figs with a caramel-like depth. Quince paste — the golden, firm preserve that pairs so beautifully with aged cheese. Sour cherry preserve (vyssino), vivid and bracingly tart, extraordinary stirred into yoghurt or spooned over ice cream. Rose petal preserve, delicate and floral, made from Damask roses in the traditional Cypriot style. Bitter orange marmalade with a complexity that Seville orange marmalade only hints at.These preserves are made from organic fruit, without artificial pectin or preservatives, using traditional slow-cooking methods that develop flavour and set naturally. Spread them on toast, serve them with cheese, or offer them the Greek way — one spoonful at a time, to welcome your guests.

Carob pods and carob products native to Cyprus and Mediterranean

Carob Products

The carob tree — harnup in Greek — has grown in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean for millennia. Its distinctive dark pods were once so valuable they were used as a unit of measurement (the word 'carat' derives from the Greek 'keration', meaning carob pod). Long before sugar cane reached Europe, carob was the Mediterranean's primary sweetener.Today, carob is experiencing a well-deserved renaissance. Rich in natural sugars, high in dietary fibre, containing no caffeine, and with a natural sweetness profile that makes it an excellent chocolate alternative, it is a genuinely versatile ingredient — and one that carries a deep Cypriot identity.Our Carob Products collection brings together the full range of carob preparations. Carob molasses (harnup pekmezi) — the thick, dark syrup produced by boiling carob pods with water and reducing the liquid until it forms a thick, dark syrup — is extraordinary drizzled over tahini, stirred into yoghurt, or used as a natural sweetener in baking. Carob flour adds a gently sweet, slightly toasty depth to cakes and breads. Carob powder is a direct cocoa substitute in recipes where you want the flavour without the caffeine.This is one of our most distinctively Cypriot product categories, and one that tells a story almost entirely absent from mainstream UK food retail. Discover the original Mediterranean sweetener.

Chios mastic resin crystals, the unique Greek PDO product

Mastic — Chios PDO

There is only one place on earth where Pistacia lentiscus trees weep their distinctive crystalline resin: the southern villages of Chios, a Greek island in the Aegean. The mastic (mastiha) produced here has been harvested by the same families for centuries, protected by a PDO designation that acknowledges its total uniqueness, and valued across the Mediterranean and Middle East for its remarkable properties.Mastic has a flavour unlike anything else — piney, faintly sweet, with a subtle eucalyptus note and a pleasant resinous warmth. In Greek and Cypriot cooking it appears in bread (the distinctive Chios mastiha loaf), in sweets and ice cream, in liqueurs, in chewing gum, and as a flavouring for everything from lamb to cheese. It is one of the world's genuinely irreplaceable ingredients.Our Mastic collection offers food-grade mastic tears (the whole resin pieces, exactly as harvested) and mastic powder for convenient use in baking and cooking. We also offer mastic-infused products that bring this extraordinary flavour to your pantry in accessible forms.Mastic has been used medicinally in the Eastern Mediterranean since antiquity — modern research has confirmed genuine antimicrobial and digestive properties. But for us, its value is simply as one of the most distinctive and irreplaceable flavours in world cuisine.

Traditional Greek and Cypriot baked goods including koulouri and paximadi

Traditional Baked Goods

In Greece and Cyprus, bread is not merely food — it has deep cultural, religious, and communal meaning. The koulouria sold by street vendors at dawn in Thessaloniki, the barley rusks (paximadia) that Cretan farmers have carried in their pockets for lunch since antiquity, the crisp sesame crackers that appear on every meze table — these are foods woven into daily life.Our Traditional Baked Goods collection brings these classics to your kitchen. Koulouri are the iconic sesame-encrusted rings of Thessaloniki — chewy, nutty, satisfying in a way that modern bread cannot quite achieve. Paximadi — the twice-baked Cretan barley rusk — is one of the most practical foods ever invented: virtually indestructible shelf life, deeply flavourful, and transformed entirely by a brief soaking in water and olive oil (the base of the famous dakos salad).Barley rusks are a particular passion. The combination of long-fermented sourdough starter, stone-milled barley flour, and double baking produces a crunch and depth of flavour that makes them perfect with cheese, with olive oil and tomato, or simply broken into a bowl of soup.These are made by small artisan bakeries who still follow traditional recipes and schedules. Slow fermentation, quality organic flours, no shortcuts.

Luxury Greek food gift hamper with olive oil, honey and traditional pantry items

Gifts & Hampers

The best gifts are the ones that bring daily pleasure long after the occasion has passed. A pantry stocked with exceptional olive oil, thyme honey, mountain oregano, and Aegina pistachios will be enjoyed with every meal for weeks. That is the philosophy behind our Gifts & Hampers collection.We curate each hamper around a theme — the Greek Pantry Essentials set brings together the five or six ingredients that define Greek home cooking; the Olive Oil Collection gathers our finest single-estate extra virgin oils; the Honey Selection pairs thyme, pine, and wildflower honeys for a tasting experience unlike any you will find on a British high street.Every product in every hamper is certified organic, thoughtfully sourced from small producers in Greece and Cyprus, and presented in packaging that reflects the quality of what's inside. These are not generic corporate gift boxes stuffed with commodity products. They are curated collections of genuinely exceptional food, with provenance stories worth sharing.Our hampers are ideal for Christmas gifts, thank-you presents, wedding favours, corporate gifting, or simply as a way to introduce a food-loving friend to the flavours of the Greek and Cypriot kitchen. We offer standard and premium sizes, and can accommodate bespoke requests for larger corporate orders. Delivered across the UK.

Why Back to Nature Co?

A family-run, independent shop — curating the best natural and eco-friendly products for everyday sustainable living.

40 Years in the Trade

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Greek & Cypriot Roots

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Family Run, Proudly

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