# Alter Eco Foods Pearl Heirloom Quinoa — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Alter Eco Foods
- **Product:** Pearl Heirloom Quinoa
- **Sold at:** alterecofoods.com
- **Product page:** https://www.alterecofoods.com/products/pearl-heirloom-quinoa
- **Assessment ID:** pta_014d7bdc04b042deac638678881be85b
- **Assessed:** 2026-11-11
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Check complete · human review pending
- **Methodology version:** 2026.10.4
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_014d7bdc04b042deac638678881be85b

## Overall (safe to quote)

Pearl Heirloom Quinoa by Alter Eco Foods — public trust assessment of 2 observed badge claim(s): Organic: Certification Match Found; Fair Trade: Limited Public Support. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Organic

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 74/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “See our complete shipping policy . Organic Pearl Heirloom Quinoa NEW Value Size! Revered by ancient”
- **Certifier named:** Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Organic claim and a public certification record from Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) appears to match this product or product family. This supports a strong public certification signal, but does not confirm this specific batch, which would require a review of the seller's own certificates or documents. Specifically, a certifier's records list this exact product as certified, and 1 independent organisation published evidence relevant to this claim. Public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, product-level. This claim is backed by a certifier that evaluates products against a published standard — using documentation, supply-chain traceability, and testing of high-risk inputs where the standard requires it. That is not the same as testing every finished product, and this public evidence does not cover the exact package or lot in your hand. This claim's own wording corresponds to the USDA National Organic Program (US)'s '100 percent organic' labeling category (requires at least 100% organic content; may display the official organic seal).
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-01
- **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance.
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Fair Trade

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 49/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Ingredients: *100% organic white quinoa *Fair Trade certified according to the Fair for Life standard [{"id":39642427981884”
- **Certifier named:** Fairtrade International (Fairtrade Finder)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Fair for Life fair-trade certification mark and names Fair for Life as the certifier, and the brand's About page describes fair trade as a founding mission; a public certifier listing was found for the brand/company level, but not confirmed for this specific product, and batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. Public sources describe Fair for Life certification as applying to specific ingredients or operations, so the scope of this claim should be read against the product page's own wording. General research notes that fair-trade premium tracking below the cooperative or producer level is limited industry-wide, which is a general limitation and not a finding about this product.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-11
- **Limitation:** No structured ingredient list was available for this product; the risk-ingredient scan could not run. Absence of risk-ingredient flags does not confirm compliance.
- **Limitation:** The fair-trade mark shown on this product is Fair Trade USA, but the only registry TilliT can search for this claim is Fairtrade International — a different, separately-run certification scheme. This scheme publishes no searchable public directory, so its certification can't be confirmed or ruled out from public data.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

## Not claimed on this page

Gluten-Free, Allergen-Free, Vegan, Non-GMO.

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_Generated 2026-11-11T14:25:26+00:00 from assessment pta_014d7bdc04b042deac638678881be85b._