Original Baked Beans

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Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 16 listed

• 1 White Beans
  Mature seeds of various Phaseolus vulgaris cultivars (navy, cannellini, great northern); whole-food legumes.
  Safe
• 2 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 3 Brown Sugar
  Sucrose with residual or added molasses; chemically nearly identical to white sugar plus minor molasses content.
  Moderate
• 4 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 5 Bacon
  Cured pork product, typically from pork belly, preserved with salt and nitrite/nitrate and often smoked.
  Low
• 6 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 7 Mustard
  Condiment or ingredient prepared from mustard seeds (Brassica/Sinapis).
  Low
• 8 Modified Corn Starch
  Corn starch chemically or physically altered (acid hydrolysis, esterification, etherification, oxidation, or enzymatic treatment) to change …
  Low
• 9 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 10 Caramel
  Caramel: a dark colorant made by controlled heat treatment of food-grade carbohydrates; four classes (E150a-d) differ by manufacturing react…
  Moderate
• 11 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 12 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 13 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 14 Vinegar
  Dilute aqueous solution of acetic acid produced by acetic-acid-bacteria fermentation of ethanol from fruit, grain, or other carbohydrate sou…
  Safe
• 15 Mustard Seed
  Seed of mustard plants (Brassica/Sinapis species), used as spice and condiment base.
  Low
• 16 Turmeric
  Ground rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant; primary active compound is curcumin.
  Safe