The power of living food,
at your own pace.
Behind Biovie there is a couple, a passion and almost two decades of everyday experimenting. Since 2007 we have championed a demanding, science-based and genuinely accessible way of putting more plants on French plates.
Our core subject: seaweed and sprouted seeds. We have tamed them, studied them and cooked them for twenty years. With seaweed we pushed the exploration all the way to a book - Algues au quotidien, winner of two awards in 2025: best well-being cookbook (Académie Nationale de Cuisine) and best cookbook in the world (Gourmand Awards – seafood category). Plus a course, to take it further still.
Every product we offer is carefully selected, tested and documented. Éric decodes the science for you, so you know exactly what you are eating and why.
Our story
How Biovie began
BIOVIE starts with Eric Viard.
An agricultural engineer trained at ISTOM, Eric spent ten years working in the organic sector. Committed to protecting the environment and to natural health since the age of 15, he has eaten a plant-based diet for more than 30 years.
Discovering living food and what it did for his own health, he decided to share those benefits with as many people as possible.
In the early 2000s one thing became obvious: on one side, a French public increasingly drawn to organic, healthy food. On the other, a yawning void of concrete information
Our mission
Bringing living food within everyone’s reach.
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Introducing living food to as many people as possible.
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Making that knowledge accessible, clear and actionable.
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Helping everyone bring more living food into daily life, at their own pace.
Our world
- Seaweed
- Superfoods
- Foods
- EasyGreen
- Fermentation
- Equipment
- Body care
- Bulk
- Courses
- Free
We live what we share.
A human adventure in the service of living things
Since 2005 Biovie has carved out a singular path where science, nature and teaching meet. What began as one life-changing encounter with living food has become, in twenty years, a publishing house, a school and a benchmark brand .
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2005-2006
The first courses
Eric runs two training sessions in France with the Hippocrates Wellness Institute (Florida). The interest is there, the demand is real. But one essential piece is missing: a book in French.
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2007
An idea sprouts
Eric decides to translate and publish the first living food book in France. The problem: he doesn’t have the funds. The solution: he starts a side business importing the Easy Green automatic sprouter.
BIOVIE is born, around two founding pillars: sprouting seeds and seaweed.
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2009
The book comes out
5,000 copies of the first living food book in French see the light of day. The online business grows and diversifies, mainly in food, with a range of sprouting seeds and fresh seaweed.
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2015
Meeting Aurélie
Aurélie, a multi-talented creator, joins Eric. Their partnership, in life as in business, brings a fresh burst of creativity.
The range widens: at the request of doctors and naturopaths looking for specific products for their patients, on suggestions from loyal customers, but above all out of their own personal story. They are the first customers of their own products.
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2025
A double accolade
Algues au quotidien, co-written by Eric and Aurélie, wins the award for best cookbook in the world (Gourmand World Cookbook Awards) and the Académie nationale de cuisine prize (best well-being book in France).
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2026
A new chapter
With the launch of BIOVIE LIVE, we pass on nearly two decades of expertise through live courses that are accessible and immediately useful.
The mission stays the same: to put more plants on French plates, one product, one course, one person at a time.
Our values
Three words behind every gesture
Three core values that Eric Viard lives out every day, and that guide every decision we make.
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Integrity
We only sell what we would use ourselves and give to the people we love. Every product goes through a strict selection process in concentric circles: good for us, good for our family, good for you, good for the planet.
Quality, demanding sourcing, fair trade and an eco-responsible approach guide our entire value chain.
We meet our producers in person, check production conditions and test every item before we list it. We meet our producers in person, check production conditions and test every item before we list it.
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Transparency
Our product pages detail sourcing, lab analyses and processing methods. We share our strengths and our limits alike (for example: why some products are not organic).
Transparency builds trust. We stand by our choices and explain our criteria. We meet our producers in person, check production conditions and test every item before we list it.
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Scientific rigor
Founded by an agricultural engineer, BIOVIE builds on solid scientific references. Our content (product pages, courses, books) cites studies, analyses and verifiable data.
Living food is not a fad: it is a nutritional approach grounded in science.
What I share,
I have lived for 30 years.
Committed to protecting the environment and to natural health since the age of 15, Eric has eaten a plant-based diet for more than thirty years. It was discovering living food, and what it did for his own health, that made him decide to share its benefits as widely as possible.
A father of four, married to Aurélie, a raw food chef with whom he co-wrote “Algues au quotidien”, he now passes on his expertise through talks, courses, books and articles - more than 500 of them published on biovie.fr.
- Author
- Trainer
- Speaker
Éric Viard
Founder - Agricultural Engineer, ISTOM
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30+
years of plant-based
eating -
2
awards – Académie Nationale de
Cuisine & Gourmand Awards -
500+
articles published
Our standards
Biovie does the sorting
Five rigorous steps, applied to every item before it joins our catalog
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On-the-ground visits
We spend several months a year visiting our suppliers (Europe, Asia, the Americas).
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In-house testing
We are the first consumers of what we sell. If a product doesn’t convince us
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Documentation
Our product pages are among the most complete on the market: sourcing, analyses, scientific references,
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Scientific analysis
Systematic checks: heavy metals, pesticides, purity, nutritional profile.
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Traceability
Origin, processing, certification (organic, fair trade), transport: every step is documented.
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110,000
Loyal customers
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+ 200
Products in our online store
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1,800 / month
Orders
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370 kg / month
Fresh seaweed sold
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1,300,000
Organic fresh coconuts sold
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7,800 / month
Packs of sprouting seeds sold
Our commitments
5 promises, kept
Biovie sets out to be a campaigning family business at the service of living things. We proudly embody our values all along our chain of activity, and carry them out to the wider public.
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Quality
Most of our products are certified organic (Ecocert). Where organic doesn’t exist yet (emerging supply chains), we pick the most ethical producers and work with them to build organic ones.
Our criteria: ripeness (fruit picked when ripe), minimal processing (raw, low-temperature drying), systematic testing (heavy metals, pesticides, purity).
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Authenticity
We are the first consumers of the products we sell and the first users of the appliances we make.
That is your guarantee that everything we offer has been assessed and verified by us.
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Social ethics
We make sure, ourselves or through third-party programs, that our products are made in decent working conditions.
Respect for people matters just as much as respect for the planet.
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Fair price & fair trade
By cutting out middlemen, we guarantee the fairest price from producer to consumer. A fair price for everyone: producers paid properly, quality guaranteed, affordability preserved.
We favor French and European products. For imports, we work in direct fair trade (tiger nuts, coconuts) and check workers’ conditions ourselves.
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Innovation
When a product stays hard to find even though the demand is there, we build new supply chains.
We were the first in France to offer organic fresh coconuts, tiger nuts, whole aloe vera leaves, the Easy Green automatic sprouter and the Juice Me Up juicer.
5 areas of activity
- Online retail
- Equipment manufacturing
- Publishing and online courses
- Writing / Publishing
- Talks / Events
Why ORGANIC matters so much to us?
In organic farming, growers have to follow a set of principles and practices, which include:
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Using natural fertilizers such as compost, manure and green manure rather than synthetic chemical fertilizers.
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Rotating crops to improve soil fertility and reduce the risk of disease and pests.
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Maintaining biodiversity on the farm, notably by keeping grass strips and hedgerows as habitat for local wildlife and plants.
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Meeting animal welfare standards, such as suitable living conditions and healthy, natural feed.
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Managing pests and disease ecologically, by encouraging natural predators and using biological controls only as a last resort.
Member of “Merci les Algues”
Merci les Algues brings together everyone working for more responsible food, using seaweed to cut synthetic chemicals out of farming and food processing. Biovie has been a member since 2026.
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