Get Up And Do Something: Chips expand beyond potato and corn; a garden awaits

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Chips expand beyond potato and corn; a garden awaits Dec 11th 2012, 11:14 Move over, potato and corn chips. There's a cornucopia of other vegetables making its way to the grocery store snack aisle. Whether it's black bean chips or dehydrated cabbage, sprouted sweet potato tortilla crisps or baked and salted peas, the options in the $560-billion global snack food market are expanding along with the waistlines of Americans and their desire to eat more healthfully. "For me, it's about eating smart but not giving up things that taste good," said Doug Foreman, founder of Beanitos, in Austin, Texas. Since launching its line of black bean chips in 2010, Beanitos has become the fastest-growing natural snack chip on the market, according to Spins, a natural product research firm.

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