Is Heinz Mexicain beanz ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 40 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score A
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
mixed beans 63% (red kidney, haricot), tomatoes 16%, concentrated tomato puree, green pepper, onion, chorizo 3% (pork, bacon, salt (processing marker), preservative (processing marker), sodium nitrite (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), spices, glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), flavourings (ultra-processing marker)), sweetcorn, sugar (processing marker), chipotle paste (chipotles, water, tomato puree, spirit vinegar, onion, salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), refined soya oil (processing marker), herbs, garlic, spices, red pepper, herb, chilli), modified cornflour (ultra-processing marker), cornflour, salt (processing marker), lime juice, herb, spice
Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite
As written on the pack
mixed beans (63%, red kidney, haricot), tomatoes (16%), concentrated tomato puree, green pepper, onion, chorizo (3%, pork, bacon, salt, preservative - sodium nitrite, dextrose, spices, glucose syrup, flavourings), sweetcorn, sugar, chipotle paste (chipotles, water, tomato puree, spirit vinegar, onion, salt, sugar, refined soya oil, herbs, garlic, spices, red pepper, herb, chilli), modified cornflour, cornflour, salt, concentrated lime juice, herb, spice.
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Modified flour An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000157141026, last edited 27 March 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 A (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.