Hello, I'm Rishabh
In my free time, I’m usually at the gym, reading about health, or messing around in the kitchen.
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Clean Bean came from those quiet moments, trying to fix my own meals without reaching for fancy powders. I wanted something simple, something my mom would use too. This brand is just an extension of that, a small attempt to make everyday food a bit more nourishing.
Our Story
As a vegetarian, I’d always leaned on soy for protein, fifty-two grams in every hundred. It felt like the obvious, efficient choice.
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But one day, my Mami, my maternal aunt, mentioned something that made me pause: “You know soy has estrogen, right? Maybe not the best thing to have every day.”
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At first, I brushed it off. But her words lingered. I began researching, reading studies, speaking to nutritionists, trying to understand what I was really consuming. I wanted to find a way to make soy safer and healthier.
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In that process, I discovered something unexpected: the real opportunity wasn’t just in reducing phytoestrogens, but in how soy was processed. I learned about defatted soy flour, a by-product of oil extraction that’s often treated as animal feed. With the right treatment, washing, drying, and refining, it could become a clean, human-grade, eco-conscious protein source that’s not only affordable but also low in heavy metals.
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That discovery reshaped everything. The Clean Bean Project grew from a search for “better soy” into a mission to make plant protein cleaner, safer, and more sustainable, for people who care about health but also about how their food impacts the planet.
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It’s simple. It’s honest. And it comes from trying to fix something I once took for granted.