Mint Districts Wellness

Best Nose-to-Tail Nutrition Brands: DTC Organ Supplements & Bone Broth

Ancestral nutrition has migrated from carnivore subreddits into mainstream wellness, and the brands doing it right share one stubborn conviction: the whole animal matters. Organ meats — liver, heart, kidney, spleen, pancreas — are calorie-for-calorie among the most nutrient-dense foods ever eaten, yet the modern diet has discarded them almost entirely. The brands in this district are reversing that. Some sell freeze-dried organ capsules for people who can't face the taste; others slow-simmer bones into collagen-rich broth your grandmother would recognize. What they share is a refusal to reduce nutrition to macros. They're chasing the full complexity of how humans actually evolved to eat — nose to tail.

Ancestral Supplements

Wellness

New Zealand grass-fed organ capsules with nothing else inside.

Founded by Brian Johnson around 2015, this brand built a cult following by doing one thing with absolute discipline: grass-fed New Zealand beef organs in pure gelatin capsules with zero fillers or flow agents. The 'like supports like' philosophy — eating liver to support your liver — is the entire doctrine, drawn from traditional cultures worldwide. Their single-organ products remain the category benchmark for purity.

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Heart & Soil

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Nose-to-tail organ formulas designed by a carnivore physician.

Paul Saladino, MD, launched Heart & Soil to fill a gap he identified as a carnivore diet advocate: organ formulas that mimic what ancestral populations actually ate from a full animal. Products like 'Whole Package' combine liver, heart, kidney, pancreas and spleen in ratios designed around human nutritional needs, not just label convenience. Arguably the most thoughtfully formulated organ supplement line available.

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Lineage Provisions

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Traditional air-dried beef and nose-to-tail collagen from regenerative cattle.

Best known for small-batch traditional beef jerky made using air-drying methods that predate refrigeration, Lineage expanded into nose-to-tail collagen from a genuine conviction that the whole animal should be used. The collagen powder is sourced from grass-fed hides, hooves, and bones, and it dissolves cleanly into any hot or cold liquid. The brand sits where frontier food culture meets premium ancestral nutrition.

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Kettle & Fire

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Shelf-stable bone broth slow-simmered for 20 hours, ready to drink.

Co-founded in 2015 by Justin Mares after he had surgery and couldn't source a shelf-stable, quality bone broth for recovery. The brothers built the brand around a simple bet: slow-simmer bones long enough (up to 20 hours), use good-quality sourcing, and pack it in Tetra Pak cartons so it doesn't require freezing. Their chicken and beef broths consistently hit 10g protein per serving, a real marker of collagen density.

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FOND Bone Broth

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First verified regenerative bone broth, built around pasture-raised farms.

Alysa Seeland founded FOND in 2015 out of a belief that food sourcing is a moral act, not just a marketing claim. FOND became the first bone broth brand to earn certified regenerative status, meaning the farms supplying the bones meet standards for soil health and animal welfare beyond organic. Slow-simmered with fresh herbs and no preservatives, the broth has expanded into tallow and cooking fats under the FOND Regenerative rebrand.

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Enviromedica

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Organ complex and soil-based probiotics designed for ancestral gut health.

Texas-based wellness brand best known for the Terraflora soil-based probiotic line, but their Organ Complex — a five-organ blend of freeze-dried liver, heart, kidney, spleen and pancreas — is a standout in its own right. Sourced from grass-fed cattle with zero flow agents or magnesium stearate, and one of the few brands that publishes third-party heavy metals testing data on their products.

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Higher Healths

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Canadian freeze-dried organ capsules from local regenerative farms, nothing added.

A small Canadian brand with a straightforward mandate: connect people back to real food through organ capsules sourced strictly from local regenerative farms using 100% grass-fed, grass-finished cattle. When World's Strongest Man champion Mitchell Hooper publicly endorsed the brand, it brought sudden attention — but the product quality was already there. Pure beef liver, heart, kidney, or the full organ blend in animal-based capsules with absolutely no fillers.

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About This District

When shopping nose-to-tail nutrition brands, start with sourcing. New Zealand and Australian pasture-raised cattle consistently produce more nutrient-dense organs than US grain-fed — higher CLA, more fat-soluble vitamins, cleaner fatty acid profiles. Look for labels that say 'grass-fed AND grass-finished,' not just 'grass-fed,' which can allow feedlot finishing before slaughter. For organ supplements, the format question matters. Freeze-dried organs preserve native enzyme content better than desiccated (low-heat dried) versions. Single-organ capsules let you target specific deficiencies: beef liver for B12 and vitamin A, heart for CoQ10, kidney for selenium. Blended organ formulas are more convenient but harder to dose precisely. Watch for fillers in capsule products. Magnesium stearate, silicon dioxide, rice flour, and other flow agents reduce purity and are entirely unnecessary. The best brands use nothing but organ meat in animal-based gelatin capsules. Start with 2–3 capsules daily and build up slowly — the high vitamin A content in liver can cause symptoms if you jump straight to the full serving. Bone broth sits in a different category from capsule supplements. It's less about micronutrients and more about glycine, collagen peptides, and trace minerals the modern diet almost completely lacks. Shelf-stable carton broths are fine as a daily sipping habit or cooking base — look for ≥10g protein per serving as a proxy for collagen density. Powdered collagen is more concentrated but doesn't deliver the full range of connective tissue compounds you get from a slow-simmered whole broth.