Is Essential Waitrose & Partners Mixed bean salad in water ultra-processed?

Canned common beans Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Open Food Facts counts every product in its category, meals, as at least group 3.

12 ingredients
2 additives

Less processed canned common beans

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Water, borlotti beans, pinto beans, black eyed beans, chickpeas, haricot beans, lima beans, great northern beans, cannellini beans, flageolet beans, ascorbic acid, calcium chloride

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E509 Calcium chloride

As written on the pack

Water, borlotti beans, pinto beans, black eyed beans, chickpeas, haricot beans, lima beans, great northern beans, cannellini beans, flageolet beans, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), firming agent (calcium chloride)

What makes it processed

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 175 canned common beans

From least to most processed, this one ranks 93rd. 47% of the canned common beans here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 175 canned common beans, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169043141, last edited 16 August 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.