Spicy beans
Spicy beans by Tabasco has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.38 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
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 Spicy beans, 2 of its 2 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 Spicy beans sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
String beans, water, distilled vinegar, salt, onion, tabasco brand pepper pulp (distilled vinegar, red pepper and salt), garlic, mustard seeds, calcium chloride, 1/10 of 1% sodium benzoate (as a preservative) spices and yellow #5 food color.
Product Details
- Brand
- Tabasco
- Barcode
- 0011210020207
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Spicy beans's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Spicy beans's 4.5/5 average puts it in the safer 71%, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Spicy beans's 4.5/5 score be read?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Spicy beans's mapped ingredients average out to 4.5/5, which is the Low Risk 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.