Kidney Beans
Kidney Beans appears in 326 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
Kidney Beans appears in 326 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.
- 326
- catalogued products
- #1,399
- usage rank of 247,206
- 133
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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 Kidney Beans - usage rank #1,399
- Usage rank
- #1,399
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 6 others that also appear in exactly 326 products, listed in more products than 99.4% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Averaged label depth puts Kidney Beans near the top of the captured list (24% of list length, mean slot 7.0). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 15% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Kidney Beans spans 133 named brands and is led by the Meals group. Start with 3 Bean Salad; 3 bean salad cups; 3 bean salad cups when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.9/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
133 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 205 of 309 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 Kidney Beans
Across the 326 products on this site that list Kidney 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 2.1x more often with Kidney Beans than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Kidney Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 38 | 11.7% | 5.7% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 6 | 1.8% | 2.4% |
| Carrageenan | 5 | 1.5% | 4.5% |
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 Kidney Beans
Products Containing Kidney Beans
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 326 indexed products containing Kidney Beans:
High-volume peers for Kidney Beans beside “Artificial Vanilla Flavor”
Top-decile company for Kidney Beans: 326 listings averaging 98.9/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Artificial Vanilla Flavor; Calcium Ascorbate; Hydrolyzed Corn.
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.
What to do with this Kidney Beans record
326 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Kidney Beans are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Kidney Beans before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- 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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Kidney Beans — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Kidney Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Kidney Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#1,399 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Kidney Beans? ▼
Kidney Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#1,399 of 247,206), appearing in 326 indexed products led by Meals. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Kidney Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Kidney Beans appears in 326 products (#1,399 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Kidney 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.