Black Bean
Black Bean appears in 95 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Black Bean appears in 95 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 95
- catalogued products
- #3,238
- usage rank of 247,206
- 47
- named brands represented
- 32%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
High-volume listing for Black Bean - usage rank #3,238
- Usage rank
- #3,238
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 25 others that also appear in exactly 95 products, listed in more products than 98.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 32%
- Averaged label depth puts Black Bean in the upper half of the list (32% of list length, mean slot 11.6). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 10.5% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Black Bean spans 47 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with 18g Protein Black Bean Burger; Amoy, black bean & garlic sauce; Beijing Style Blck Bean Sauce Noodles when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 96.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
47 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 62 of 89 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Black Bean
Across the 95 products on this site that list Black Bean, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Black Bean products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 6 | 6.3% | 5.7% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Black Bean
Products Containing Black Bean
High-volume slice (16 of 95) for products naming Black Bean:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Apples And Calcium Ascorbate”)
Top-decile company for Black Bean: 95 listings averaging 96.7/100. Comparable product-count neighbours: Apples And Calcium Ascorbate · Barbecue Sauce · Blended Oil.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Black Bean record
Start from Black Bean's 95 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Black Bean and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Compare a peer
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Black Bean — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Black Bean? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Black Bean, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#3,238 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Black Bean? ▼
Black Bean ranks in the top decile by product count (#3,238 of 247,206), appearing in 95 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Black Bean so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Black Bean appears in 95 products (#3,238 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Black Bean). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.