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Is Suma Baked beans lincolnshire style sausages ultra-processed?

Baked beans in tomato sauce Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Suma Baked beans lincolnshire style sausages

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed baked beans in tomato sauce

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

Water, Haricot Beans 47%, Sausages 15% (Wheat Gluten, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Soya Protein, Wheat Rusk, Salt, Sugar, Yeast, Herbs, Yeast Extract, Thickener (Methyl Cellulose), Spice Extracts, Garlic, Barley Malt Extract), Tomato Purée 4%, Modified Maize Starch, Sugar, Salt, Cider Vinegar, Onion, Paprika, White Pepper, Nutmeg

Additives: E461 Methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Water, Haricot Beans (47%), Vegan Sausages (15%) (Wheat Gluten, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Soya Protein. Wholemeal Wheat Rusk, Salt, Sugar, Dried Yeast, Dried Herbs, Yeast Extract, Thickener (Methyl Cellulose), Spice Extracts, Garlic Powder, Barley Malt Extract), Tomato Purée (4%), Modified Maize Starch, Sugar, Salt, Cider Vinegar, Onion Powder, Paprika, White Pepper, Ground Nutmeg.

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.

  • E461 Methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
3 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.

  • 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 88th. 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 5017601041177, last edited 19 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.