The Native American woman-owned company, and supplier to Sysco, opens its online store, backed by Raven Indigenous Capital Partners

Bare Beans, the fresh cooked bean company with only one ingredient, today launched its online store at barebeans.com, putting its kettle-cooked, fresh beans in shoppers’ hands nationwide for the first time. The launch marks the consumer debut of a company that has spent eight years quietly growing on the other side of the food business, supplying restaurant and institutional partners across the U.S. and Canada through Sysco’s Cutting Edge Solutions program, US Foods, Bitchin’ Sauce, and Sizzler restaurants.

Bare Beans offer five varieties: pinto, garbanzo, black, navy, and red beans that are kettle-cooked and freshly packed each day. This is the same process used to cook dry beans at home. From there, they’re rinsed, drained, and packed cold, with no salt, no seasoning, no preservatives, no added ingredients; simple and bare. They keep up to 90 days in the fridge or one year in the freezer and swap one-for-one in any recipe that calls for canned beans.

“For as long as beans have been sold in stores, you had two choices, dry beans that are time consuming to prepare or canned beans cooked inside the tin cans you buy them in,” said Bare Beans founder and CEO Michelle Huff, Turtle Mountain Chippewa. “We developed the third option. We grow the beans on our farm, we cook them fresh daily, and we pack them cold. Restaurants and professional chefs have been using them for years. Now the home cook can too.”

Most shoppers view canned beans as the only option. What most consumers don’t know is that canned beans are cooked inside the sealed tin can together with the salt, firming agents, and preservatives, then stored at room temperature, often for a year or more before reaching a plate. Bare Beans are not cooked in the package. Bare Beans are rehydrated overnight and go from the kettle, to a vacuum-sealed package and into cold storage, which is why they hold their shape, smell like a fresh cooked bean rather than a can, and taste like something cooked at home. Beans are now fresh food, bought and used like salad greens instead of stored like a pantry staple.

The company is one of the rare vertically integrated businesses in American food. The Huff family grows the majority of its beans on its own Idaho farm, or sources locally, and they own and manage the production facility that cooks and packs them. That control, from the soil to the variety of bean grown, runs deeper than logistics. The Huff family selects the exact bean varieties for taste and texture, decides what goes into the soil, and runs its own food safety protocols rather than trusting a co-packer. The result is high-quality fresh beans you can't get anywhere else.

The consumer expansion is backed by a recent $2.79M seed investment from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners, the first Indigenous-owned venture capital firm on Turtle Island. The round is a signal of the company’s momentum and will fund the direct-to-consumer push, with retail expansion to follow.

“Indigenous founders receive roughly 0.05% of U.S. venture capital, which makes a venture-backed, Native woman-owned food company one of the rarest things in American business,” said Paul Lacerte, co-founder and Chief Purpose Officer of Raven Indigenous Capital Partners. “We invested in Bare Beans because Michelle had already done the hard part. She built a strong revenue stream and national distribution from her family’s own farm bringing a truly unique product to market.”

The company’s giving model has been part of the business since its first order. Thousands of pounds have already been donated to local food banks and senior centers. For every purchase placed online, Bare Beans will donate one-for-one to food banks and Native food sovereignty programs that help more Native families reach clean, real food, the same communities Huff comes from.

Bare Beans ships cold across the United States in packs of 10. Find out more at barebeans.com.

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About Bare Beans

Bare Beans makes fresh, ready-to-eat beans with exactly one ingredient. The company was founded in 2018 by Michelle Huff, a produce-industry veteran who set out to bring cooked beans to market without the can. She spent the first years perfecting a simple idea: beans kettle-cooked fresh each day, the way you'd make them at home, then packed cold with no salt, no seasoning, and no preservatives. Bare Beans earned national food-service distribution with Sysco's Cutting Edge Solutions program, additionally its beans landing everywhere from Bitchin' Sauce's bean dip to Sizzler restaurants. Today the company sells five varieties — pinto, garbanzo, black, navy, and red — sold in the refrigerated case and shipped cold nationwide. Bare Beans is Indigenous- and women-owned, all-natural, and vertically integrated from soil to pouch and every online order gives back one-for-one to Native food sovereignty programs and food banks. Visit barebeans.com for more information and recipes.

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Single ingredient, kettle cooked and packed fresh daily. Find pinto, garbanzo, black, navy and red Bare Beans in your grocer's fresh food section.