Is Sainsbury’s Organic Baked Beans in tomato sauce ultra-processed?

400g Baked beans in tomato sauce Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Sugar

15 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed prepared vegetables

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

Haricot Beans 52%, Tomatoes 31%, Water, Sugar (processing marker), Maize Starch (processing marker), Sea Salt (processing marker), Onion, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Rice Flour, Nutmeg, Garlic, Coriander, Mace, Cassia

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Haricot Beans (52%), Tomatoes (31%), Water, Sugar, Maize Starch, Sea Salt, Onion Powder, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Rice Flour, Nutmeg, Garlic Powder, Coriander, Mace, Cassia

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 114 baked beans in tomato sauce

From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 82% of the baked beans in tomato sauce 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 114 baked beans in tomato sauce, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01208610, last edited 21 February 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.