Black Beans
Black Beans appears in 1,696 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 Beans appears in 1,696 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.
- 1,696
- catalogued products
- #457
- usage rank of 247,206
- 558
- named brands represented
- 30%
- 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 Beans - usage rank #457
- Usage rank
- #457
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 30%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,712 products listing it (mean slot 9.7). Black Beans usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
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 9.3% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Black Beans spans 558 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% organic black beans; 100% Tamales, Black Beans & Queso Chihuahua; 13 Bean Soup Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
558 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 973 of 1615 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 Beans
Across the 1,696 products on this site that list Black Beans, 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 Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 75 | 4.4% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 59 | 3.5% | 4.5% |
| Red 40 | 12 | 0.7% | 5.4% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 10 | 0.6% | 1.3% |
| Blue 1 | 9 | 0.5% | 4.2% |
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 Beans
Products Containing Black Beans
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 1,696 indexed products containing Black Beans:
Black Beans vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Black Beans sits among other busy catalog rows (1,696 products, mean score 99/100). Nearest count peers include “Roasted Peanuts”, “Lemon Oil”, “Rennet”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
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.
Using the Black Beans evidence
Start from Black Beans's 1,696 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Open the product sample for Black Beans and read how the term sits on real packages. Open product sample
- Place Black Beans next to “Lemon Oil” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Open a peer record
- Read how PlainFoodSafe joins source records before treating a screening label as a personal food or health conclusion. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Black Beans — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Black Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Black Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#457 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Black Beans? ▼
Black Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#457 of 247,206), appearing in 1,696 indexed products led by Plant-based foods and beverages. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Black Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Black Beans appears in 1,696 products (#457 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Black Beans). 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.