Lima Beans
Lima Beans by Food Lion 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
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 1 of 1 ingredient tracked for Lima Beans has a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Lima 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
WATER, LIMA BEANS, SALT, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA AND SODIUM METABISULFITE (ADDED TO PROMOTE COLOR RETENTION).
Product Details
- Brand
- Food Lion
- Barcode
- 0035826010445
- Nutri-Score
- Grade A
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Lima Beans's safety score compare to other products?
With an average ingredient safety score of 5/5, Lima Beans sits ahead of 85% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 5/5 rating on Lima Beans?
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 Lima 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.