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Is Four Seasons Red Kidney Beans in Chilli Sauce ultra-processed?

390g Red beans Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Four Seasons Red Kidney Beans in Chilli Sauce

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed red beans

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

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

red kidney beans 46%, tomatoes 43%, water, sugar, modified maize starch chilhe found paprika, cumin, dried garlic, coriander, ground bak peper goa found basi, onion powder, oregano, thyme, flavouning, meary advice, caution care should be taken when opening and disposing of ll cans, notrition this can con tkal values per

As written on the pack

red kidney beans (46%), tomatoes (43%), water, sugar, modified maize starch chilhe found paprika, ground cumin, dried garlic, ground coriander, ground bak peper goa found basi, onion powder, ground oregano, ground thyme, flavouning, meary advice: suitable for vegetarians, caution care should be taken when opening and disposing of ll cans, notrition this can con tkal values per 100g 378kj/

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 44 red beans

From least to most processed, this one ranks 21st. 48% of the red 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 44 red beans, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600247618, last edited 20 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.