Guiltless Gourmet founder introduces new 100 percent bean-based chip

AUSTIN, Texas Guiltless Gourmet founder and former chief executive officer Doug Foreman announced Monday an entirely new concept (and company) in the snack foods category‹Beanitos, the first 100-percent, bean-based chip. Full of natural protein and fiber, gluten-free and complete with a low glycemic, Beanitos offers a healthy alternative to many potato, corn, rice and wheat-based snack competitors.

The bean chips will be manufactured and distributed under the Right Brothers Foods, Inc. Bean Brand from their Austin, Texas-based headquarters beginning in early 2009 with their first line of multi-flavored black bean and pinto bean chips. Foreman predicts the company will add 50 new employees in the first half of 2009 and 450 within the next three years.

“I understand the mechanisms of launching and growing a successful food company,” Foreman said. “Now is the best time to introduce Beanitos to the marketplace. I developed this gluten-free, low glycemic product because of the widespread concern about the decline of Americans’ health as a result of the Western diet. But it was very important to me that the taste remains the top priority. Now consumers have a healthier choice in chips without sacrificing taste at all. There's nothing else like it.”