Where good health is a journey...Naturally When Adele opened her Evansville store, Adele's Naturally, nearly three decades ago, she hoped her health food would catch on. "The demand is growing like crazy." Now her daughter-in-law is in charge of the business, one that specializes in natural foods.

(From the Evansville Courier and Press May 16, 1976)
...The newest addition to the interesting building, which indeed seems like a world all it's own, is the health food shop operated by Adele Cottrell. The Sunflower Seed West is the name of the new shop which includes a kitchen that also adds to the homeyness of the entire establishment.

In the kitchen there is a grain grinder and Adele explains that she hopes people wil! be able to bring in their grains to have them ground before their very eyes. That, of course, would be after they had grown their grains on healthy land untouched by pesticides or chemicals for at least five years.

For the main principle behind the existence of the store, as Adele explains, is to offer "freedom of choice" to those who want organically grown and naturally processed foods. "We're not pushing certain vitamins for certain ailments here," she says, "we're just offering good, wholesome food for those who want it, and for those who have to eat food without all the chemicals because of allergies."

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