Healthy alternatives in the US Packaged Dry Beans Market

Consumers love packaged foods for its convenience, easy to consume and that it comes more or less prepared. Thanks to the kind of processing techniques we have today, such foods are ready to eat, easy to store and can be prepared at any time using little to no preparation at all. They are also portable, have a longer shelf life too.

It’s this combination of convenient traits that are attributing to the growth of the US Packaged Dry Beans Market. Usually, when we think about foods that are packaged or processed, we assume that they’re unhealthy. This is true to some extent, - these foods are made using high amounts of preservatives like sugars and sodium. Certain low-fat alternatives do have the fat removed but it is often replaced by sugar and this is what makes them calorie-dense.

But for packaged foods requiring single ingredients, this isn’t the case – and this forms the X-factor of this industry. Since there usually is just one frozen vegetable, in this case beans, there is no need for additional modifications to preserve – hence there are only very minute amounts of sugar, sodium, etc. – and therefore optimal for health.  

Packaged dry beans are those food items or vegetables that are re-conditioned, before being packed off into packet, cans or containers, before they hit retail shelves. The reasons they are so popular is because, one, they don’t have those nasty additives.

Second, they cater to the needs of the health-conscious consumer who wants healthier things to eat but knows that it will be a while before industries and manufacturers catch up – till then, they’ve got dry beans.    

And, since this is about the US market, many Americans consume beans as part of their staple diets and if they want to maintain weight. In addition to this, the longer shelf life and easier storage of these dry beans are all helping the market to grow.

Of course, market retail shelves aren’t just going to offer you regular old ben as this that could get pretty boring, pretty fast! And the US consumer is this most demanding and finicky of the lot, so they want options.           

Luckily, American stores offer those cranky consumers variants like navy beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, pinto beans – and since they are dry packaged, they can be used in any number of dishes like salads, soups, stews, sauces, meat and vegetarian dishes, really fitting into the everyday American cuisine in the simplest way possible. It can be paired with rice too, so they address the culinary needs of the Non- Caucasian diet patterns too like that of the Asian, Mexican, Chinese, Italian and Greek societies as well.

The American market for these dry beans, as determined by Research On Global Markets is valued at USD 939.2 the biggest segment is the pinto beans and that the supermarkets were the biggest distribution channels, on accounts that this type of channel can hold multiple brands offerings at a time and reach a much wider group of people in a single instance.

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Andrew Thomas Joined: April 18th, 2019