Rua Food: Feeding the mums who are busy feeding the babies

Owner of Dublin-based Rua Food Alice Tevlin is making delicious gluten-free, vegan cookies packed with galactagogues, foods or herbs traditionally consumed to increase breast milk production.

Alice Tevlin, Rua Foods' owner and head chef. Picture: Ruth Calder-Potts

“Breastfeeding is a very individual experience,” says Alice Tevlin, the owner of Dublin-based Rua Food, a bakery which supplies cafés and individuals with gluten-free and dairy-free snack options like brownies, cookies, bites, and bars. 

Her experience feeding her baby led her to develop a nutrient-dense cookie designed to help nursing mothers. Tevlin’s delicious plant-based oat chocolate chip cookies include ingredients known as galactagogues, which are foods or herbs that may help to increase breast milk production. While limited scientific studies have been done on proving their efficacy, these galactagogues are ingredients traditionally consumed for their milk-making properties.