A high-volume method of manufacturing a vegetable-based cluster-type snack-food product with a low-sugar binder, carried out in a manufacturing line, includes inputting a supply of a vegetable cluster component to a manufacturing line, inputting a supply of a binder component to the manufacturing line, mixing a quantity of the supply of the binder component together with a quantity of the supply of the vegetable cluster component to produce a mixture, and manipulating the mixture of binder component and vegetable cluster component to produce a plurality of vegetable snack-food product clusters. The vegetable cluster component predominantly includes whole or pieces of savory and/or salty culinary vegetables. The binder component is produced predominantly from soluble fiber. The vegetable snack-food product clusters are bound together by the binder component.