Great Northern Beans
Great Northern Beans appears in 235 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
Great Northern Beans appears in 235 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.
- 235
- catalogued products
- #1,752
- usage rank of 247,206
- 93
- named brands represented
- 21%
- 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 Great Northern Beans - usage rank #1,752
- Usage rank
- #1,752
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 4 others that also appear in exactly 237 products, listed in more products than 99.3% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 21%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 237 products listing it (mean slot 4.1). Great Northern Beans usually falls near the top of the captured list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 9.4% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Great Northern Beans spans 93 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 10 bean soup mix; 13 Bean Soup Mix; 13 Bean Soup Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
93 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 86 of 225 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 Great Northern Beans
Across the 235 products on this site that list Great Northern 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 Great Northern Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 11 | 4.7% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 80 | 9 | 3.8% | 1.3% |
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 Great Northern Beans
Products Containing Great Northern Beans
High-volume slice (16 of 235) for products naming Great Northern Beans:
High-volume peers for Great Northern Beans beside “Added To Maintain Freshness”
Top-decile company for Great Northern Beans: 235 listings averaging 99.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Added To Maintain Freshness; Celery Extract; Diluted With Water To 5% Acidity.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Great Northern Beans page
235 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Great Northern Beans are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Great Northern Beans before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Great Northern Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Great Northern Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,752 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Great Northern Beans? ▼
Great Northern Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,752 of 247,206), appearing in 235 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 Great Northern Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Great Northern Beans appears in 235 products (#1,752 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Great Northern 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.