Heat & Serve Green Bean Casserole, Family Size
by Weis Quality
Contains 1 flagged ingredient
Heat & Serve Green Bean Casserole, Family Size by Weis Quality receives a safety score of 95/100 based on ingredient analysis using FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) data and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. The product contains 1 ingredient that have been flagged for potential safety concerns by regulatory or consumer advocacy databases. Product label data is sourced from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative database. See the full ingredient breakdown and safety assessment below.
What the Data Says About
Heat & Serve Green Bean Casserole, Family Size by Weis Quality carries a composite safety score of 95/100, which we classify as "Safe" on our four-tier shelf-label framework. The score is computed by mapping each labeled ingredient against FDA Substances Added to Food (SAFFA) regulatory status and CSPI Chemical Cuisine classifications, then penalizing the overall product for each additive rated as caution-or-worse. Product data originates from the OpenFoodFacts collaborative catalog; safety annotations come from federal regulators and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Our scan identified 1 flagged ingredient in this product — components that at least one official source has classified as requiring caution, targeted avoidance, or further evaluation. Flagged ingredients are the items most likely to surface in FDA inspection findings, state-level ingredient bans, or outbreak-related recall notices, so the per-ingredient breakdown below is the most useful lens for anyone screening this product for a specific dietary concern.
On the NOVA processing scale, Heat & Serve Green Bean Casserole, Family Size is classified as Group 4 (Ultra-processed). NOVA measures industrial processing intensity rather than ingredient-level safety, so it complements the SAFFA and CSPI ratings: a product can be clean on additive flags but heavily processed, or lightly processed but carry individually flagged ingredients. Combining both lenses gives a fuller picture than either alone.
Safety Profile at a Glance
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PlainFoodSafe Score | 95/100 | FDA SAFFA + CSPI composite |
| Flagged ingredients | 1 | CSPI/FDA review |
| NOVA processing group | Group 4 | OpenFoodFacts |
| Nutri-Score | Not available | OpenFoodFacts |
Composite metric derived from FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine, OpenFoodFacts. See methodology.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
Green beans, half & half creamer (milk, cream, nonfat dry milk and disodium phosphate [processing aid]), evaporated milk (milk, dipotassium phosphate, carrageenan, vitamin d), water, reduced fat milk (milk, fat free milk, vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d3), french fried onions (onions, palm oil, enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], soy flour, salt and dextrose), red peppers, mushrooms (mushrooms, water, salt, citric acid, ascorbic acid, calcium disodium edta to maintain color), unsalted butter (sweet cream, natural flavorings [lactic acid, starter distillate]), onions, iodized salt (salt, sodium silcoaluminate, dextrose, potassium iodine), flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), food starch modified, sugar, sodium phosphate, onion powder, inosinate and guanylate (disodium inosinate, disodium guanyalte), granulated garlic, natural mushroom porcini flavor (mixed triglycerides, natural flavors, including hydrolyzed vegetable protein, autolyzed yeast extract, onion powder), cellulose, autolyzed yeast (yeast extract, salt), hydrolyzed vegetable protein (hydrolyzed soy protein and partially and partially hydrogenated cottonseed and soy oil), soy sauce powderer (soy sauce [wheat, soybeans, salt], maltodextrin, salt), white pepper.
Data Sources
Data as of 2025. Source: OpenFoodFacts, FDA SAFFA, CSPI Chemical Cuisine.
Product data from OpenFoodFacts (ODbL). Ingredient safety ratings from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine. See our methodology for details.
This information is for reference only and does not constitute dietary or medical advice.
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