Grill Style Beans Sauce
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041303039342 · Essential Everyday. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Grill Style Beans Sauce by Essential Everyday scores 95/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 17 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The 17-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 17 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- A
- 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
75/100
Grade B+
Ingredient Safety
95/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
A
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.
03039342 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Grill Style Beans Sauce label screening desk
3 of 17 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Caramel Coloring). Source sheet 03039342 · 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.
Nutri-Score placed this label in its highest band. The model reaches that grade when the credit side of its ledger — fibre, protein and the fruit, vegetable and legume fraction — outweighs the energy, sugar, saturated-fat and sodium it counts against a product. The scale is computed per hundred grams from the declared nutrition panel, which is why two products with similar ingredients can grade differently on portion-heavy categories. It is a nutritional summary only, calculated independently of the additive registries screened further down this page, and it neither incorporates nor contradicts them.
A mid-length component list was parsed from this label. There are enough separate entries for the screen to match several independently, while each matched entry still carries visible weight in the resulting index. Lists of this size are the most common shape in the catalogue, which makes the composite here easier to place against comparable products than at either extreme.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
Ingredient-list length vs every product we publish
Grill Style Beans Sauce lists 17 ingredients on its label
17 62nd percentile a longer ingredient list than 62% of the 359,392 products we track
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
- 0–2
- 6,050 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 24,522 products (7%)
- 4–6
- 31,054 products (9%)
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- 30,981 products (9%)
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- 31,618 products (9%)
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- 29,943 products (8%)
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- 28,403 products (8%)
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- 27,417 products (8%)
- 16–18
- 24,508 products (7%)
- 18–20
- 19,062 products (5%)
- 20–22
- 14,679 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 12,238 products (3%)
- 24–26
- 10,830 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 9,344 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 7,955 products (2%)
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- 6,753 products (2%)
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- 4,531 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 4,063 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 24,241 products (7%)
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. No category with enough published products was available for this record, so the comparison runs against the whole published catalogue.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 95/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 17 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
PREPARED WHITE BEANS, WATER, BROWN SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: ONIONS, GREEN PEPPERS, SALT, TOMATO PASTE, CORNSTARCH MODIFIED, MUSTARD BRAN, CARAMEL COLOR, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, ONION POWDER, NATURAL MOLASSES FLAVOR, SPICE, VINEGAR, GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR.
Other products containing Natural Molasses Flavor
Natural Molasses Flavor is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 12 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
More from Essential Everyday
High-score cross-brand comparables for Grill Style Beans Sauce
Neighbours outside Essential Everyday with screening scores in the same high band as Grill Style Beans Sauce (95/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Essential Everyday; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 17 on 0041303039342).
Medium-label peers (9–20 ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (17 on 0041303039342).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Caramel Coloring is the first flagged ingredient selected from Grill Style Beans Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 17-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Caramel Coloring. Open Caramel Coloring
- Compare Grill Style Beans Sauce'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 0041303039342: 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.