From heirloom varieties to seasoned pantry staples and crunchy snacks, these 10 brands show how beans are finding new roles in everyday meals.
Beans are moving from side dish to snack, pantry staple and centerpiece, with brands widening the ways consumers can eat them. Whole Foods Market’s forecast for 2027 calls the trend a “bean boom,” pointing to demand for affordable, whole food sources of protein and fiber. Fact.MR projects the canned bean market could exceed $5 billion by 2036.
That growth is showing up in products that fit different routines: heirloom beans for slow cooking, ready-seasoned varieties for quick meals, and roasted legumes for snacking. Here are 10 brands illustrating how broad the category has become.
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Heirloom beans and better-known staples
Rancho Gordo
1 Rancho Gordo's heirloom beans are worth joining the waitlist for
Since 2001, Napa-based Rancho Gordo has worked with growers in the US and Mexico to cultivate indigenous and heirloom legumes. Its selection ranges from less common varieties such as Christmas Lima and Dirty Cassoulet beans to familiar mayocoba and garbanzo.
Individual varieties are available through the brand and Amazon. Its Bean Club offers six bags of beans and a grain selection each quarter, but demand has put new members on a waitlist at the time of writing. That scarcity reflects a particular kind of interest in beans: shoppers are seeking distinctive varieties, not just a convenient can.
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Siete
5 Siete Foods' beans are a must for your next burrito night
Siete Foods brings beans into the Mexican American brand’s broader lineup of tortillas, taco shells and chips. Its Charro Beans combine onions, garlic, chipotle and jalapeño, while its refried options include Ranchero, Pinto and Black varieties. The range suits cooks who want beans seasoned and ready to fold into a burrito or serve alongside one.
The selection offers a pantry shortcut with flavors built around familiar ingredients, rather than asking shoppers to start with dried beans and build the seasoning themselves.
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Simpli
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Simpli centers its beans on regenerative farming practices intended to support soil health. The company sells single-origin heirloom beans in compostable paper bags, and offers subscriptions for customers who want regular deliveries. Its pitch connects the product’s provenance and packaging to a pantry staple that’s often treated as interchangeable.
For shoppers choosing among dried beans, Simpli’s focus is clear: specific origins and farming practices are part of the product story, alongside the beans themselves.
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Snacks built around legumes
Bada Bean Bada Boom
2 Bada Bean Bada Boom makes a case for fava beans over potato chips
Bada Bean Bada Boom turns fava beans into crunchy, roasted snack packs for shoppers who don’t want beans in their usual cooked form. Flavors include Sweet Sriracha, Buffalo Wing, and Sweet Onion & Mustard. The product puts legumes in a familiar snack format, giving the category a place in between meals as well as at the dinner table.
That format is a practical route into the bean category: a compact, flavored snack can appeal to people who might not otherwise reach for a bowl of beans.
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Brami
3 Brami's lupini beans are an impressive nutritional choice
Brami’s lupini beans come pickled and briny, ready to eat from the bag or add to salads, stir-fries and sandwiches. The brand describes lupini as “one of the most impressive plants on the planet.” Its nutrition figures make the case in more specific terms: 12 grams of protein and nine grams of fiber per 100 calories.
The beans work as a snack on their own, but their firm texture and savory flavor also make them easy to fold into a meal.
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Biena
4 Biena brings big flavor to chickpeas and edamame
Biena’s roasted chickpeas are sold in flavors including Rockin’ Ranch and Himalayan Pink Salt. The brand also makes edamame snacks, extending its lineup beyond the familiar chickpea. Both formats position legumes as portable, seasoned alternatives to conventional packaged snacks.
For shoppers who already like chickpeas, the range adds flavor and crunch; edamame gives the brand another option for those looking to vary their snack rotation.
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Only Snacks
10Only Snacks gives edamame a main character moment
Formerly known as The Only Bean, Only Snacks has focused on edamame since 2017. Its Daily Snack Packs feature roasted edamame in Sea Salt, Ranch and Wasabi Soy. The lineup gives the soybean a dedicated snack identity, rather than treating it as an occasional salad ingredient.
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Seasoned cans for faster meals
Serious Bean Co
7The Serious Bean Co is playful about flavor
Serious Bean Co pairs familiar beans with unexpected seasoning. Its vegan-friendly range includes Carolina Gold BBQ Beans, flavored with mustard and cider vinegar, and Dr Pepper Baked Beans. For a simpler option, the company sells Organic Garbanzo Beans and Organic Black Beans seasoned with Himalayan pink salt.
The range spans sweet, tangy and lightly seasoned profiles, showing how canned beans can serve as a finished dish rather than a neutral base.
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A Dozen Cousins
8 A Dozen Cousins brings Creole and Caribbean flavors to your pantry
Founded in 2017, A Dozen Cousins set out to make Caribbean, Creole and Latin American cooking more accessible. Its vegan-friendly seasoned beans include Cuban Black Beans with onions, green peppers and spices, Creole Red Beans, and Trini Chickpea Curry.
These options offer a quick way to bring regional flavor profiles into a meal, with the beans already seasoned and ready to serve.
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Heyday
9 Heyday Canning Co's Saucy Beans deserve to be the star of the show
Heyday Canning Co, founded in 2020, set out to make canned food more appealing. Its vegan-friendly Saucy Beans lineup includes Tomato Alla Vodka Cannellini Beans, Apricot Glazed Baked Beans, and Harissa Lemon Chickpeas. The combinations shift canned beans toward meal-ready flavors that can anchor a plate with little preparation.
The variety is part of the point: shoppers can choose a sauce-led profile and build a meal around it, instead of reaching for a plain can as a supporting ingredient.
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A broader role for an everyday food
The brands here make the bean boom tangible. Rancho Gordo sells variety and provenance; Simpli foregrounds farming practices; snack makers turn legumes into portable crunch; and seasoned lines offer shortcut ingredients for full meals. The products differ, but they share a shift in how beans are presented: as a choice with flavor, format and identity of its own.
With Whole Foods Market identifying beans as a 2027 trend and Fact.MR projecting continued growth in canned beans, the category’s next step may depend on keeping that range visible. The more often shoppers encounter beans as snacks, quick meals and distinctive ingredients, the less likely they are to remain confined to the side of the plate.
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