Beanitos aims to provide healthy bean-based foods and strives to provide snacks that have ingredients that are non-GMO. Established by Doug and Dave Foreman in 2010, Beanitos has quickly gained the attention of many supporters of corn-free and gluten-free snack foods.
Beanitos uses either black or pinto beans combined with whole grain rice or whole brown flaxseed. Home-baked chips are flash-fried in pure sunflower oil and sprinkled with sea salt. Beanitos are also free of corn, wheat, soy, potato, trans fat, and cholesterol.
As a high fiber and low glycemic alternative to regular packaged chips, Beanitos also offers many vitamins and minerals. With each serving, there are 4 grams of complete protein and Essential ALA Omega 3s.
If your diet requires that you decrease your salt intake, Beanitos have only 55 mg of salt per serving compared to 155 mg found in most chips.
Beanitos provided us with a case of their chips for a review. There are four flavors of Beanitos: Chipotle BBQ, Pinto Bean & Flax Cheddar Cheese, Black Bean, and Pinto Bean & Flax.
I enjoyed having them available for snacks because I found that I was more interested in grabbing a bag of Beanitos over cookies and other unhealthy snacks. I noticed that they were more filling so I snacked less frequently in the afternoons.
When I first tried the Chipotle BBQ flavor, I thought they were slightly too hot. I had to drink something with them. However, the Chipotle BBQ flavor was my favorite because they tasted so much like regular BBQ chips.
The Pinto Bean & Flax with Cheddar Cheese was also very good. I love adding flaxseed to salads, so having them with each serving of chips was an added bonus. I intended to take a picture of the chips so that you could see the whole flaxseeds, but I ate them all! In addition to the cheddar cheese, you can taste a slight nutty flavor from the flaxseeds. Like the Chipotle BBQ, they were slightly spicy. 
If you would prefer to not have the cheddar cheese flavor, there is also a plain Pinto Bean & Flax chip. Like the Black Bean & Sea Salt flavor, these go great with dip. We took part of the case to a friend’s house and everyone enjoyed them with spinach dip. They would taste good with salsa, too.
Each of the flavors of Beanitos were crunchy and filling. If you want a healthy snack and you’re trying to swap out unhealthy snacks from your diet, these are definitely worth trying.
In addition to having the option to purchase them on the Beanitos website at www.beanitos.com or Amazon, you can find them at health food stores such as Whole Foods.
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Our Virginia Home received Beanitos chips for the purpose of a review. However, only our honest opinions were expressed.
Potato chips, I love them
sweet and salty are no no’s in our house
corn chips, potato chips, and cheese curls!
Chips never seem to satisfy my taste & craving for chips…These chips look healthy, yet kinda delcious to try!
It’s also back to school time for my daughter, here in about a week, these would be a great after school snack for her! 🙂
I love potato chips
Salty potato chips!
Chips and chocolate cokes….two things I love just not together
They sound so good. Yummy!!
would love to try Beanitos!
Need to get rid of empty calories and replace with something of nutritional value!
potato chips are my weakness
Trying to limit the bad potato chips!
salty chips or crackers
Candy and potato chips
🙂
Candy!
Nacho cheese Doritos!
Cookies & Candy
classic snacks – brownies, cookies
They just should not be laying around the house enticing people to eat them
Chips are an issue for me made worst if they come with a dip. Very hard to stop taking one more chip
I’m trying to limit overly salted snacks.
cookies
I have been trying to avoid potato chips for the past month 🙂
I am trying to limit chocolate..I eat wayy too much of it!
ksceviour at hotmail dot com
Diet Coke and potato chips
chips
I’m trying to limit ice cream
Cheez-Its, Candy bars,muffins and a few others. These look good and healthy which is the best part. Thanks for the yummy giveaway!
Granola bars. I am trying to hit the produce drawer rather than the pantry.
Chocolate.
I don’t restrict my diet at all. Any restrictions are not dietary, but because the price has increased.
candy bars
Oreos. If they are in my house they are gone way too soon.
I have always struggled with soda and sweet things like little cakes or pies. : o
Sugary snacks! I have a major sweet tooth and have a really hard time keeping it under control!
coriwestphal at msn dot com
Trying to cut out sweets !:)
potato chips!!
Late night munching
Cheese!
salty chips, chocoate bars
i try to limit salty snacks like potato chips!
annae07 at aol dot com
trying to limit my chex mix addiction lol
trying to limit sugar
Candy!
I really need to stop eating so many potato chips. These seem like a good substitute. Thanks for the chance!
I’m trying to limit cookies, I seem to have a lot of cookie monsters in the house!
candy and chocolate
I try not take anything out of my diet…its really about portion size to me. I literally portion everything.
I am trying to limit Potato Chips.
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
I try to limit potato chips, but they are sooo good.
We are trying to limit regular potato chips.
I am limiting sugars and salts.
ubrewme@yahoo.com
I’m not really looking to limiting anything, i’m not really into junk.
I’m an email subscriber.
chips and salsa-love it,but my big butt does not need it!
The unhealthy variety of chips…
cookies!
trying to limit my chocolate intake!
Chocolate… I’m an addict!
I need to drink more water and less soda.
im still trying to lose weght and then the chip and ice cream so i need somthing that wont bother the sugars
deis the bonde at msndot com
Trying to limit and actually limiting are two different things in world, unfortunately…
I am trying to avoid ice cream!