Pinto Beans
Pinto Beans appears in 949 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
Pinto Beans appears in 949 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.
- 949
- catalogued products
- #684
- usage rank of 247,206
- 302
- named brands represented
- 23%
- 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.
Pinto Beans sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#684 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #684
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 2 others that also appear in exactly 949 products, listed in more products than 99.7% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 23%
- Averaged label depth puts Pinto Beans near the top of the captured list (23% of list length, mean slot 5.9). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
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.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 14.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pinto Beans spans 302 named brands and is led by the Plant-based foods and beverages group. Start with 10 bean soup mix; 100% salsas, veggie refried beans; 13 Bean Soup Mix when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.2/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
302 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 439 of 913 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 Pinto Beans
Across the 949 products on this site that list Pinto 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 1.8x more often with Pinto Beans than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Pinto Beans products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 95 | 10% | 5.7% |
| Carrageenan | 17 | 1.8% | 4.5% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 13 | 1.4% | 2.4% |
| Yellow 6 | 11 | 1.2% | 3.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 10 | 1.1% | 4.8% |
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 Pinto Beans
Products Containing Pinto Beans
High-volume slice (16 of 949) for products naming Pinto Beans:
High-volume peers for Pinto Beans beside “Potassium Iodate”
Top-decile company for Pinto Beans: 949 listings averaging 98.2/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Potassium Iodate; Riboflavin And Folic Acid; Black Tea.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Pinto Beans page
Start from Pinto Beans's 949 catalogued appearances and the attached source fields, then open the product rows that match your use case.
- Check the listed products containing Pinto 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
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Pinto Beans — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pinto Beans? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pinto Beans, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#684 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pinto Beans? ▼
Pinto Beans ranks in the top decile by product count (#684 of 247,206), appearing in 949 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 Pinto Beans so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pinto Beans appears in 949 products (#684 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pinto 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.