It’s Easy to Eat Your Peas This Summer; 5 Plant-Based Snacks You’ll Love

Crispy, dried, salty, savory and spicy chips are arriving on your store shelf with new and innovative ingredients and eye-catching packaging. My recent visit to the New York Fancy Food Show found cauliflower and mushrooms as new entries into the very full list of plant-based snacks. 

There’s no excuse not to eat your peas and veggies, with chickpeas, fava beans, green peas, beets, cauliflower, kale and mushrooms in many flavors. Corn even has a new twist from Craize!

We found five new and innovative snack ingredients — beans, butternut squash, cauliflower, mushrooms and peas!

Highlighting these Gluten Free, Non-GMO and Vegan Brands:

Hippeas Chickpeas – “Organic Chickpea Puffs are made from the humble, but mighty legume baked into a light and crunchy puff.”

Peeled Snacks Peas Please – Baked and crunchy organic peas

Saffron Road Chickpeas – Organic and crunchy — they’re non-GMO Project Verified and topped with flavors of the world.

The Good Bean Favas+Peas – “Carefully roast peeled, split fava beans and green peas into a colorful, addictive mix that pack a protein wallop!”

Craize Toasted Corn Crisps – Toasted and ready to eat arepa crisps from corn.

Shroom Snacks Crispy Mushroom Chips – #snackaltering, thick cut mushrooms in “mind blowing flavors” from the responsibly grown Shrooms Farm.  

From the Ground Up Butternut and Cauliflower Snacks – chips, crackers and pretzels with a plant based twist