Palouse Brand is 100% committed to desiccant free farming. Palouse Brand foods are naturally dried by sunshine. These Kabuli Sierra Garbanzo Beans are as fresh as you can find! How many other people can tell you the exact field location and date we seeded and harvested? We are proud of being Certified Kosher Parve, Non-GMO Project Verified, Food Alliance Certified and carrying the quality seal from the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council. All Palouse Brand products will sprout and are non-irradiated (an accepted practice that exposes your food to radiation for sterilization). We grow it, harvest it, truck it, process it, bag it and get it to you - it never touches a middleman. Field Traced – each bag comes with a code you can scan to identify the field we grew it in and harvest date.