Hope has high hopes for high-tech hummus

BOULDER — Hummus is one of the world’s oldest foods, but a local company thinks a new, high-tech way of making it — using high-pressure processors — will be the key to realizing its ambitious plan to become a nationally known name in the natural and organic foods industry.

Hope Foods is a Boulder-based natural foods producer whose flagship product is organic, vegan and gluten-free Hope Hummus. The hummus comes in several varieties, such as organic jalapeno cilantro, sweet potato and Thai coconut curry.

To realize its ambitions, Hope Foods needs to solve one of the biggest problems all natural foods producers…