Bush's NOVA 4

Country Style Baked Beans

Country Style Baked Beans: 3/5 ingredient safety

Country Style Baked Beans by Bush's has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 3 out of 5, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Beans

How This Score Is Built

This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Country Style Baked Beans, 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient carries a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.

Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.

Where Country Style Baked Beans sits nationally

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

3 Top 98% higher than 2% 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

3
Mixed Evidence
Average ingredient safety: 3 out of 5
Based on 1 tracked ingredient
1
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
0
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

PREPARED NAVY BEANS, WATER, BROWN SUGAR. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CURED BACON, MUSTARD (WATER, VINEGAR, MUSTARD SEED, SALT, PAPRIKA, TURMERIC), ONION POWDER, CARAMEL COLOR, PORK STOCK, PORK FLAVOR, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR. BUCH BROTHERS & COMPANY

Product Details

Brand
Bush's
Barcode
0039400070740
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Country Style Baked Beans rank on ingredient safety?

With an average ingredient safety score of 3/5, Country Style Baked Beans sits behind 98% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 1.12 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

How should Country Style Baked Beans's 3/5 score be read?

The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Country Style Baked Beans's mapped ingredients average out to 3/5, which is the Mixed Evidence 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.