Safe

Grill style beans

by Essential Everyday

Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041303039335 · Essential Everyday · Plant-based foods and beverages. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.

Barcode 0041303039335 · Serving size 1/2 cup (130 g)

The verdict

Grill style beans by Essential Everyday scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 21 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 21-component label is layered, beginning with Prepared White Beans, Water, Brown Sugar. Start with any flagged rows, then check the nutrition grade and serving size instead of treating one roll-up score as the whole decision. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.

95/100
Safe safety score
1
One flagged · of 21 analyzed
Group 4
Ultra-processed
B
Nutri-Score nutrition grade

Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.

Composite profile score

One verdict from three independent sources

70/100

Grade B

Ingredient Safety

95/100

FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening

Processing Level

NOVA 4

Ultra-processed foods

Nutrition Grade

B

Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade

Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.

03039335 · Open Food Facts · July 2026

Grill style beans label screening desk

SCORE-SAFE 95/100 FLAG-ONE 1 flagged LEN-LAYERED 21 ing. REG-SPARSE 29% reg. NOVA-G4 G4 ultra NUTRI-B Nutri-B RANK-MID Len top 21% LEAD-FLAG Caramel Coloring PHOTO-FINISH Sugar sweetened iced · ±0 BOOK-OFF …039335 · July 2026

6 of 21 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 03039335 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Sugar sweetened iced tea mix · Nearest score peer is Sugar sweetened iced tea mix at the same screening score.

Screening model notes

How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record

Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.

The Nutri-Score algorithm returned its second band for this label. That grade typically describes a nutrition panel whose favourable components register clearly in the model without fully offsetting its energy or sodium terms. Because the calculation is a single points balance rather than a set of independent thresholds, a strong fibre or protein figure can lift a panel into this band even where one penalised nutrient sits high. The grade summarises the declared panel alone and carries no information about the additive ratings screened below.

This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.

Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood

1. Grill style beans: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #11. Grill style beans95/1002. Sugar sweetened iced tea mix: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #22. Sugar sweetened iced tea …95/1003. Enchilada Sauce Mix: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #33. Enchilada Sauce Mix95/1004. Fiesta Taco Seasoning Mix: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #44. Fiesta Taco Seasoning Mix95/1005. Chunky Soup Beef With Country Vegetables: 95/100 · 100% of the leader · rank #55. Chunky Soup Beef With Cou…95/100
High-band neighbours for Grill style beans (95/100) outside Essential Everyday.
Chart values as text

Unit: PlainFoodSafe screening score out of 100. Data current as of July 2026.

Grill style beans
95/100
Sugar sweetened iced tea mix
95/100
Enchilada Sauce Mix
95/100
Fiesta Taco Seasoning Mix
95/100
Chunky Soup Beef With Country Vegetables
95/100

How It Compares to Its Category

Among the 78,450 products we've scored in the Plant-based foods and beverages category, the average safety score is 97.7/100. Grill style beans scores 2.7 points below that category average (95/100 vs. 97.7/100), so it is roughly typical for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.

Ingredient-list length vs other Plant-based foods and beverages products

Grill style beans lists 21 ingredients on its label

21 79th percentile a longer ingredient list than 79% of the 63,434 products we track

0–2: 3,907 products (6%). Below this entry. 2–4: 7,921 products (12%). Below this entry. 4–6: 8,845 products (14%). Below this entry. 6–8: 7,032 products (11%). Below this entry. 8–10: 6,320 products (10%). Below this entry. 10–12: 4,190 products (7%). Below this entry. 12–14: 3,449 products (5%). Below this entry. 14–16: 3,051 products (5%). Below this entry. 16–18: 2,493 products (4%). Below this entry. 18–20: 2,053 products (3%). Below this entry. 20–22: 1,808 products (3%). This entry sits in this band. 22–24: 1,758 products (3%). Above this entry. 24–26: 1,623 products (3%). Above this entry. 26–28: 1,606 products (3%). Above this entry. 28–30: 1,360 products (2%). Above this entry. 30–32: 1,198 products (2%). Above this entry. 32–34: 1,081 products (2%). Above this entry. 34–36: 901 products (1%). Above this entry. 36–38: 649 products (1%). Above this entry. 38–40: 534 products (1%). Above this entry. 40–42: 1,655 products (3%). Above this entry. This product 0 42 every published Plant-based foods and beverages product, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Distribution as text

63,434 products, bucketed in bands of 2. This entry: 21 (79th percentile). Data current as of July 2026.

0–2
3,907 products (6%)
2–4
7,921 products (12%)
4–6
8,845 products (14%)
6–8
7,032 products (11%)
8–10
6,320 products (10%)
10–12
4,190 products (7%)
12–14
3,449 products (5%)
14–16
3,051 products (5%)
16–18
2,493 products (4%)
18–20
2,053 products (3%)
20–22
1,808 products (3%)
22–24
1,758 products (3%)
24–26
1,623 products (3%)
26–28
1,606 products (3%)
28–30
1,360 products (2%)
30–32
1,198 products (2%)
32–34
1,081 products (2%)
34–36
901 products (1%)
36–38
649 products (1%)
38–40
534 products (1%)
40 and above
1,655 products (3%)

Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026

Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 63,434 Plant-based foods and beverages products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.

Full Ingredient List

Prepared white beans, water, brown sugar, tomato puree (tomato paste, water) contains less than 2% of: red bell peppers, salt, onions, cornstarch modified, vinegar, mustard flour, maltodextrin (from corn), caramel color, natural flavor (includes smoke flavor), onion powder, citric acid, garlic powder, extractive of paprika, spice.

Other products containing Includes Smoke Flavor

Includes Smoke Flavor is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 17 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.

Categories

Plant-based foods and beverages Plant-based foods Legumes and their products Canned foods Legumes Canned plant-based foods Canned legumes Canned common beans

High-score cross-brand comparables for Grill style beans

Neighbours outside Essential Everyday with screening scores in the same high band as Grill style beans (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Essential Everyday; these peers cross brands.

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Follow the flagged-label evidence

Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Grill style beans's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 21-ingredient record.

  • Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
  • Compare Grill style beans's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
  • Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method

This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.

Barcode 0041303039335: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.