Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable
Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable by Progresso has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.7 out of 5, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Canned foods / Meals / Soups / Canned meals / Canned soups
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 Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable, 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients carry 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 Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.7 Top 18% higher than 82% 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
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
Chicken broth, corn, black beans, tomatoes, onions, red bell peppers, green sweet peppers, tomato paste, contains less than 2% of: cilantro, modified food starch, hydrolyzed corn protein, toasted corn flour, chicken fat, salt, potassium chloride, natural flavor, spice, sugar, dried chili pepper, tomato extract, onion powder, dried chipotle pepper, garlic powder, calcium chloride, citric acid.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.7/5.
- Potato Bacon Breakfast Δ 0.0 pts · The Kwikery 4.7/511 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Assorted fruit & vegetable flavored snacks, assorted fruit & vegetable Δ 0.0 pts 4.7/57 additives
- Blended Cultured Soymilk Δ 0.0 pts · Silk 4.7/57 additives
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 3.
Product Details
- Brand
- Progresso
- Barcode
- 0041196458930
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
- Stores
- Kroger
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Frequently asked questions
Is Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable above or below average on ingredient safety?
Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable scores 4.7 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 82% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.58 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.7/5 rating on Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable?
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 4.7/5 average places Southwest Style Black Bean & Vegetable 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.