Heinz no added sugar beans

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Are totally rank. Was really looking forward to having beans on toast for tea, didn't realise they were no added sugar. Overwhelming taste of artificial sweetener and just awful, still got an aftertaste an hour later. Surely a bit of sugar is better for you than artificial sweetener 🤮

I think they taste sweeter than the original ones too! I've tried lots of times but have now gone back to the old ones...

After swearing blind that Heinz were the only decent baked beans, DH convinced me to try Branston and they're bloody lovely - how Heinz use to be

They are awful.

I think people are kidding themselves with all this no sugar shit. There is sugar in everything we eat- unless you are literally spending your whole life living like a peasant from 400 years ago making every single thing you eat from scratch.

We are all going to die eventually anyway. Who wants to spend their life eating crap they don’t even like?!

They can’t have honey in them if it’s not on the label. It would be completely against the law and surely easily dealt with when one of the many conspiracy theorists who know about it report it to the food standards agency?

I picked them up by mistake too, blergh. I make sure to look carefully and get the proper ones now.

Only ever eaten branstons in this house. Heinz are tasteless. Branson’s have a v slight bbq flavour and are slightly sweeter.

I don't really eat baked beans, and have certainly never had the no added sugar ones. But my 21 year old prefers them.

Branston beans are lovely but their reduced sugar ones are even worse than Heinz.

I buy normal and sugar free and I really can't tell the difference. Beans are beans to me

No they do, but as a flavouring I think it was... Heinz confirmed it themselves hence they’re not vegan unlike the normal ones. Makes me sad as Wetherspoons use them so no beans on their vegan cooked breakfast etc!

They're horrid aren't they 🤢🤮

Vile. I buy ordinary baked beans in sauce, empty two thirds into a sieve and wash the sauce off. I then mix the washed beans with the remaining third so have a fair amount of beans with much less sugary sauce. Forgot to do this the other week and the straight from tin beans were far too sweet, so your taste buds do adjust.

I can eat Heinz regular baked beans just fine, but for some reason I get the most painful trapped wind with the no added sugar version. Horrible things.

Branstons beans smell like BO.

Sweeteners are popping up in everything. They are vile.

Youre right gluteus, I just wish sugar tasted as foul as sweeteners then we wouldn't have a problem with trying not to eat it.

I think it’s psychological. It’s like the way my Dh claims he can identify cheap food (Aldi/ ASDA) even when it’s a branded product 🤣

People get all tin foil hat about sweetners which it’s whats really behind it IMO.

@Passthecherrycoke - I think it’s psychological.....People get all tin foil hat about sweetners which it’s whats really behind it IMO.

I think it's having a more sensitive sense of taste rather than a psychological issue. I can detect sweeteners even if I'm not expecting them to be in the product. The op thought she was eating normal beans and only realised from the taste.

I can see that with something extremely sugar heavy like coke vs Diet Coke, but it’s hard to believe people are detecting tiny amounts in other foods (although as you say if you are expecting them to taste very sugary maybe it’s the lack of sugar that they dislike)

@Passthecherrycoke - I can see that with something extremely sugar heavy like coke vs Diet Coke, but it’s hard to believe people are detecting tiny amounts in other foods (although as you say if you are expecting them to taste very sugary maybe it’s the lack of sugar that they dislike)

I don't drink fizzy drinks so wouldn't be comparing those. I can detect it in things like yoghurts that have a mixture of sugar and sweeteners. I don't particularly like very sweet yoghurts so it's not a lack of sweetness.

It's not about like/dislike. I can taste the sweeteners and they taste different to sugar. Your sense of taste is obviously not able to discriminate between them. Fair enough but not a reason to disbelieve others who have differing senses of taste.

Your sense of taste is obviously not as sensitive as some others, lucky you. I'm often throwing food out because vile sweeteners have been added to cut the sugar content. Its very annoying.

Why don’t you check the ingredients before you buy rather than throwing it out all the time? It’s always clear on the ingredients which sweetners it contains

Youre right gluteus, I just wish sugar tasted as foul as sweeteners then we wouldn't have a problem with trying not to eat it

haha, yes, that's true

I think it’s psychological.

Nah. They taste like shit. Nothing psychological about that.

I can definitely taste sweeteners. They're vile.

Yes, pass, thank you for your advice. I don't expect to have to read ingredients lists for items I've been buying for years that have been altered, unheralded, to lower the sugar content.