Black Beans

Black Beans: 5/5 ingredient safety

Black Beans by Kroger has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products

How This Score Is Built

Black Beans draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Black Beans sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

5
Generally Safe
Average ingredient safety: 5 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
1
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Full Ingredients List

black beans, water, facts salt, calcium chloride (to help maintain firmness). container cup (130g) 120 dally value* 0% 0% 717 0%

Product Details

Brand
Kroger
Barcode
0011110106476
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Black Beans rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Black Beans's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What's behind the 5/5 rating on Black Beans?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Black Beans's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Generally Safe tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.