Green Beans
Green Beans appears in 2,266 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
Green Beans appears in 2,266 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.
- 2,266
- catalogued products
- #372
- usage rank of 247,206
- 462
- named brands represented
- 29%
- 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.
Green Beans sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#372 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #372
- 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
- 29%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 2,266 products listing it (mean slot 6.0). Green 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.
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.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 12% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Green Beans spans 462 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 100% Natural Pureed Baby Food, Just Green Beans; 14 Garden Vegetable Soup; 3 Bean Salad 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.
462 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 851 of 2168 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 Green Beans
Across the 2,266 products on this site that list Green 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. Caramel Coloring shows up about 1.6x more often with Green Beans than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Green Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 208 | 9.2% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 55 | 2.4% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 13 | 0.6% | 2.4% |
| BHT | 13 | 0.6% | 1.1% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 8 | 0.4% | 2.1% |
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 Green Beans
Products Containing Green Beans
High-volume slice (16 of 2,266) for products naming Green Beans:
High-volume peers for Green Beans beside “Brown Rice”
High-volume peers for Green Beans: 2,266 products, mean screening score 99/100. Nearest count peers include “Brown Rice”, “Fruit Pectin”, “Calcium Lactate”. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
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 Green Beans page
Start from Green Beans's 2,266 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Review the sampled product records that list Green Beans to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Browse linked labels
- Compare Green Beans with a peer such as “Brown Rice” on source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Compare a peer
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Green Beans
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Green Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Green Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#372 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Green Beans? ▼
Green Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#372 of 247,206), appearing in 2,266 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 Green Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Green Beans appears in 2,266 products (#372 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Green 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.