Step aside, Kale. Move over, edamame. The new green superfood just might be Palouse-grown spring green garbanzo beans. The protein-packed and fiber-rich nuggets have been cropping up in grocery store salad bars and delis from Seattle’s Whole Foods Markets to Spokane’s Main Market. They also can be found in a frozen legume medley at Trader Joe’s, in appetizers and entrees at Spokane’s Downriver Grill and even in some corporate cafeterias and school lunches. And, if a small, family-owned Spokane firm has its way, consumers will be seeing a lot more of the bright-green beans. Fresh Nature Foods specializes in growing and distributing green garbanzo beans, also known as...
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