Lotus Foods Rice

Lotus Foods sells delicious organic and regeneratively farmed rice products from smallholder farmers across the world. The California-based B Corp specializes in flavorful, colorful heirloom varieties that our marketplace editor always keeps in her pantry. (Her favorites are the nutty, purple-black Organic Forbidden Rice and the lovely light green Organic Jade Pearl Rice, which has an intoxicatingly fresh flavor from the addition of wild-crafted bamboo extract.) Lotus’s mission is to “lead the way in rice farming practices that simultaneously mitigate climate change, promote farmers’ resilience, and empower women.” By working with farms that use More Crop Per Drop irrigation methods, Lotus boasts amazing emissions and water savings. The company’s 2023 Impact Report says that its rice emits 40% less methane and uses 25–50% less water compared to conventionally farmed rice.