Heinz Beanz Salt Reduced | Chewsday Review

Great parent request for this week's Chewsday Review asking about the salt and sugar content of quick tinned meals like baked beans and spaghetti. Today's review is of the Salt Reduced Heinz Beanz, and I'll save the spaghetti for another day!

Ingredients

Positives

An easy way to eat vegetables! Baked beans count towards the recommended daily serves of vegetables for kids and adults.
Fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt content all meet healthy guidelines. Sodium content is 25% less than regular baked beans.
Source of iron at 1.01mg per 100g. A 220g tin of baked beans would meet 25% of a toddlers daily requirements and 22% of an older child’s daily requirements.
Excellent source of fibre with 8.8g per serve. This would meet 63% of a toddlers daily requirements and 49% of an older child’s daily requirements!
Very inexpensive source of protein.

Negatives

This product is served in larger amounts than most Chewsday Review foods (220g). This means that a serve of this size will provide 10.6g of sugar and 550mg of sodium. Does this count as a negative for me? To put it simply, no. But of course, it’s much more complicated to explain! These are a nutritious food option, and provide plenty of fibre, folate and even iron for growing kids. This is not a food providing just sugar and salt. It’s all about perspective.

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Alternatives

I think these beans are a great food! They meet my criteria for fat, sugar, salt, fibre and are a source of iron and protein.
SPC Baked Beans Rich Tomato Salt Reduced are slightly lower in sugar and sodium, but you can confidently choose the brand your family enjoys.
Hungry for more? Check out my guide to choosing canned beans on Baby and Toddler Mealtimes, as well as over 15 other product categories.

The composition of food products changes regularly. The nutritional values of the products in this Chewsday Review were correct at the time of publishing.