whole earth baked beans are very healthy

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My friend just called them junk still. They are sweetened with apple juice and have sea salt. Half a tin is 1.2g of salt (not sodium). Them with sweet potato and goats cheese seems very healthy to me.

From a thread the other day loads of folk think baked beans are junk food

They are wrong.

OP, how do they taste?

Throw them at her head.

unless they've improved radically recently, they're hard and a bit weird in flavour.

Goat's cheese is high in salt isn't it?

What Worra said.

I suppose 'healthy' is relative.

Cinnamon and apple juice, with tomatoes and beans sounds revolting though.

I think beans are great, but don't understand why they have to have sugar in them; sugar in 'savoury' food is a real bugbear of mine.

Concentrated apple juice is essentially sugar, and sea salt is as much sodium as table salt. I'd just stick with Tesco healthy options to have less of these.

They taste lovely. Maybe not Heinz but a million miles away from tinned toms and beans.

Yabu

The only acceptable form of baked beans is heinz

Everything is healthy in moderation, nothing is healthy when eaten to excess.. They are still processed with added salt and sugar so I wouldn't proclaim them as very healthy

Healthy in what context?

Depends what else you or your child eats.

YANBU They taste different from the usual brands because they taste like actual food rather than sweetened pap. It comes down to preference. Your friend is ignorant.

I think you might be taking the word 'processed' a bit far.

They're cooked haricot beans in tomato sauce.

No one bloody grows haricot beans themselves, they take up too much space - it's a food that really needs acres. No one on my allotments grows it, we all grow stuff that's expensive or hard to get.

It's a bean, in tomato sauce - 'processed' is just not appropriate as it has so many negative connotations.

Processed to me is turning something that looks like food into something else. Like reshaping Turkey testicles into dinosaurs.

Beans, sweet potato and goat's cheese???

vom

All I remember of these beans is that they taste awful (usually a fan of Whole Earth products too).

I love whole earth baked beans, haven't had them for a while, dp tends to buy Heinz. So they are on my list to buy.
And yes baked beans are perfectly healthy, well if they were the only thing you ate that wouldn't be healthy but as part of a varied diet etc. Everything on moderation.

The list of ingredients is really odd actually.

If I wanted to cook beans in a tomato based sauce, I can't imagine throwing in apple juice concentrate, cinnamon, cloves.... and dill .

It sounds like Rachel's recipe for shepherds pie, is it dinner, is it pudding?

I love sweet potato and goats cheese, I normally just ate the whole earth beans on toast but am inspired to try them on sweet potato, do you roast your sweet potato?

Roast? Bake I mean? Going made.

They're delicious, too.

Sadly, I've not seen them on sale for years.

And I'm bewildered by people's bewilderment at the ingredients.

I suppose if you can't deal with that, then there's always Branston beans, where one of the ingredients is "flavouring"
www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/branston-baked-beans-410g

Using fruit juice as a sweetener is not unusual in food anyway. Nor are the other ingredients odd.

God I am going to have to go to town to go to our wholefoods supplier and see if they have them, I will be really cross if they don't.

that's nice.

I happen to have a tin of Aldi everyday essentials beans here so have done a comparison. The 100g figures show Aldi beans have slightly less salt, a bit less protein and almost exactly the same amount of simple sugar. Guessing that there is a bit more water in it as the calorie count is lower, but the difference isn't worth the approx three times the price you pay for 'organic'.

no food is unhealthy in itself. And the Aldi beans are very nice too.

YABU for not buying Heinz beans.