Kidney beans, canned

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

• Acrylamide · Nothing to watch: rated by margin of exposure · No cap: no safe threshold is set for acrylamide, so no grams figure. Both FDA results for canned dark red kidney beans (2015) were below the 10 ppb limit of quantitation, so no contribution to intake is computed; canned beans are not fried or baked. · FDA 2015 · B
• Bisphenol A (BPA) · Not rated yet · Not rated: EFSA's 2023 tolerable daily intake for bisphenol A is 0.2 ng/kg body weight/day, 14 ng a day for 70 kg. No kidney-bean figure was found. On a related product (Health Canada canned baked beans, 18–25 ng/g), 0.56 g to 0.78 g would reach the limit, and 0.14 g at the single highest recent sample (103 ng/g). Not rated because the value belongs to a related product and can-lining BPA is treated as context. Recorded because it is the one hazard on which canned beans differ from cooked beans. · PubMed 26372889 · B
• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.56% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Lead · Worth knowing · Flagged, not banded: no safe threshold is set for lead, so no grams figure is possible. All 3 FDA samples of canned, drained kidney beans fell below the 4 ppb reporting limit, so 0.4 µg per 100 g is an upper bound, not a measurement. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Nickel · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's 2020 tolerable daily intake (TDI) for nickel is 13 µg/kg body weight/day, 910 µg a day. Eaten alone, about 4,973 g a day would reach it; 100 g carries 18.3 µg, 2.0% of the daily limit. This rests on 3 FDA composites of canned kidney beans, and legumes are a nickel-rich food (Health Canada baked beans 305.2 ng/g, 12 composites). · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · A
• Phytohaemagglutinin (raw bean lectins) · Worth knowing · Flagged: a handling matter, not a dose limit. One commercially canned sample carried 4.9 µg/g dry weight of active phytohaemagglutinin (PHA, the bean lectin); a whole can holds 0.46 mg, which the authors put about 1000-fold below the amount linked to poisoning. Health Canada says canned red kidney beans do not require further cooking. This is one can of one brand, and the poisoning amount is the authors' estimate, not an agency threshold. · Thompson 2025 · B

Sources

• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• US FDA, Survey Data on Acrylamide in Food: Individual Food Products, data from 2015 (xlsx media/130927; page content current as of 2024-03-05)
  fda-acrylamide-2015 · dataset · US Government work (public domain)
• US FDA, Total Diet Study FY2018–FY2020 Elements Report Supplement
  fda-tds-fy2018-2020 · dataset · US government work (17 USC 105), public domain
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Cao XL, et al. Levels and temporal trend of bisphenol A in composite food samples from Canadian Total Diet Study 2008-2012. Food Addit Contam A 2015 · doi:10.1080/19440049.2015.1088663 · PMID 26372889
  pmid:26372889 · abstract only · licence not recorded
• Thompson HJ, Neil ES, McGinley JN, Lutsiv T. Toward standardized measurement of active phytohemagglutinin in common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. Foods 2025;14(24):4247 · doi:10.3390/foods14244247 · PMID 41464957
  thompson2025-pha · full text read · CC BY 4.0

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.