Refried, Pinto Beans, Gluten Free, Organic, Vegetarian, Traditional, 15.4 oz, Pack of 12

The absolute best canned refried beans you can buy. Doesn’t come out like a gel glob. Good texture and taste

It almost seems silly to me to write a review on refried beans, but having recently started on the "4 Hour Body" slow-carb diet we are eating a lot of them. My wife has always favored mexican food, and the typical store-brand or name-brand refried beans smelled and tasted, well, not good. I would usually comment while preparing dinner that they looked exactly how I remembered canned dog food looked when I was feeding my dog as a kid, and smelled the same as well. So that's how we found Amy's, and I have to say they're the first refried beans that I actually enjoy eating. However in the retail stores they are around $3.20/can where I live with a slight discount for a case. I ordered these online and signed up for the monthly autoship since we eat them several times a week now, and the cost was around $27/case of 12, free shipping. I've tried a few other organic brands but to me Amy's still wins. Note that the low-sodium version has half the sodium as the regular version, and this seems to hold true for all of their low-sodium canned beans. The Organic black beans are also very good, better in fact to my palate.

This is THE BEST refried beans on the market today. Don't let the "with green chiles" part scare you. They are not hot or spicy, the chiles impart a subtle flavor. The beans are smooth and creamy, not pasty or gritty like the other grocery store brands. Even my 5 and 2 year olds love the quesadillas and burritos and nachos we make with Amy's refried beans. And along with delicious flavor, you get Amy's commitment to organic and vegan products. No GMO's and no MSG. You wont feel guilty about feeding your family anything from Amy's. I did find Amazon's price to still be cheaper than my local natural grocery store. Buy a can from your grocer to try it before you order a case. Side note: Amazon is not packaging these right, these come in a shrink-wrapped cardboard tray of 12 cans. Amazon simply throws this case into a larger box only with 2 or 3 air pillows as padding! On my first shipment 8 cans were dented! Amazon quickly shipped me out another case, but this time only 4 were dented. Amazon figure out some better packaging for your canned goods!!!

The beans are great, especially compared with other reduced sodium beans! But every time I order them, most of the cans are dented, sometimes severely. So far, none of them have leaked or had other can issues. But it's worrying.

The refried beans I find at my grocery store have about 500-600mg of sodium per 1/2 cup serving, if not more. Given that the USRDA recommended limit for sodium is 1500mg or 2300mg (depending on your risk category), a couple of servings quickly use up most of the limit. I was glad to find Amy's "light in sodium" products--I bought the refried black beans. These reduced-sodium refried black beans are tasty and, according to the can, have 220mg per serving, which I find much more reasonable. (I gather Amy's regular refried black beans are 440mg, which is still below most competitors.) The Amy's of course are also organic--a nice bonus, although of course it raises the price. It would be nice if conventional brands also offered low-sodium options, but until then I plan to be buying a lot of these Amy's. I heartily commend Amy's for offering "light in sodium" versions of a number of their products.

I had always used another brand of canned refried beans and switched to Amy's Organic because they were about the same price as my old brand, and I've come to prefer organic products when I can get them. I will not go back to my old brand. These refried beans taste like the pinto beans they are made with, and they have just enough onions, garlic, and other spices to complement the beans rather than overpower the flavor of the beans. As well, they don't seem as "heavy" as other beans that I've eaten. I will definitely buy these beans again. I was disappointed, though, that most of the cans were dented and damaged. This doesn't seem to have affected the quality of the product, but it does seem odd that so many damaged cans were sent in one order. It seems to me that the shipper may be at fault here and may be sending the dented cans because it might be easier to cast them off on the internet-order crowd--they aren't as likely to return them as a shopper in a store would be not to buy them without a discount.

I bought these because the Goya low sodium refried beans I normally purchase have been out of stock everywhere for months. These are a serviceable alternative. They're different from standard refried beans in that they have a decisive flavor profile (mostly like chili) that overpowers the taste of the beans themselves. The texture is also a bit grainier than the Goya refried beans I'm used to. Overall, it's a can of refried beans that's low in sodium and it's not unpleasant, but it's far more expensive and not as much to my liking as what I usually buy.

I love Amy's Traditional Refried Pinto Beans, which is perfect for those who must adhere to a low sodium, low oxalate diet. Unfortunately, Amazon's Subscribe and Save program delivered the wrong Amy's product ( Refried Black Beans ) which has double the oxalate content. As a food product, Amazon would not take the product back, but did provide a refund. Unfortunately re-ordering the correct product would now cost me an additional $11.54 from what I was credited under the Subscribe and Save program. Hopefully this was a fluke and Amazon Fulfillment will send the correct product in the future.