Great Northern Beans
Great Northern Beans by Spartan 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. Its Nutri-Score is A.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
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How This Score Is Built
Great Northern 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 Great Northern 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
PREPARED WHITE BEANS, WATER, SALT, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, DISODIUM EDTA ADDED TO PROMOTE COLOR RETENTION.
Product Details
- Brand
- Spartan
- Barcode
- 0011213053400
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Great Northern Beans above or below average on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Great Northern Beans's 5/5 average puts it in the safer 85%, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Great Northern Beans's 5/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 5/5 average places Great Northern Beans 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.