Canned white common beans, from least to most processed

We track 14 canned white common beans, 79% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Butter Beans.

What makes canned white common beans ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of canned white common beans that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Butter Beans Biona Organic · 400 g e NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Organic Cannellini Beans Macro NOVA group 1

Processed food (1)

  1. 3 Organic baked beans H.J. Heinz · 415 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (11)

  1. 4 Vita bönor i tomatsås Eldorado · 420 g NOVA group 4
  2. 5 Heinz Beanz Tikka 390g Heinz · 390g NOVA group 4
  3. 6 Harvest Best Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce Harvest Best · 420 g NOVA group 4
  4. 7 sainsburys haricot beans in water Sainsburys · 400g NOVA group 4
  5. 8 Garant Vita bönor i tomatsås Axfood · 390 g NOVA group 4
  6. 9 Coop Vita bönor i tomatsås Coop · 420 g NOVA group 4
  7. 10 ICA Basic Vita bönor i tomatsås ICA · 420 g NOVA group 4
  8. 11 Baked Beans Morrisons · 410 g NOVA group 4
  9. 12 Original Baked Beans Bush's Best · 794g NOVA group 4
  10. 13 Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce Essential Waitrose · 400g NOVA group 4
  11. 14 Pork and Beans in Tomato Sauce Van Camp's · 425 g NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.