Popular Canned Baked Beans, Ranked Worst To First 

What is your favorite brand of canned baked beans?

My father , who was born in 1920; always recited this when we had beansl “ beans beans the magical fruit, the more we eat the more we toot”. I was embarrassed when he said it, but I would love to hear it again,. He died in 1994

Growing up in Missouri on a farm with eleven siblings there was always a pot of beans on the woodstove filled with Mama's love and cornbread to dip in them now that i'm old bushs is all i would waste money on

Years ago VanKamp's were the premiere baked beans and the number one choice but even then, women always dressed them up according to what the family liked. Bush beans are ok but sometimes tend to be dry even with the sauce. You can rescue any brand of baked beans by adding anything you want to add.

"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear." - Aesop.

I'm from Maine ,we had B and M baked beans and hot dogs every Saturday night along with B and m brown bread.

" Roll that beautiful bean footage, " Duke

In the old days I loved B & M baked beans the best.

Videos like this are all about personal taste. I have had many different cans of beans over my life and the absolute best on is B&M Boston's Best Beans.

Blytheville Canning Co. - Blytheville Arkansas - - Bush Bros. Mr. H.C. Bush and his son , Allen. lived here and headed the canning co. I worked in the office beginning in 1969 at the age of 19. Just in time for the birth of Bush's Baked Beans in the laboratory -- made following Grandma Bush's recipe. And - Showboat Pork and Beans were produced here - the only Bush factory to do so. Heekin Can Co. built a mini factory behind the plant - producing the cans and directly delivering them by overhead conveyors into the plant. Enjoyable experience. Blytheville Canning Co. is closed now --- moved to Tennessee to Bush headquarters

Bushes baked beans with onions (green label) are my absolute favorite, in nearly 75 years never tasted anything even close. TheReaper!

There used to be in the 1970’s and 80’s, a US brand called Big John’s bbq baked beans. There were 2 cans connected together, the smaller can had a tomato-based Smokey BBQ sauce that you added to the main can of beans. They were the best, hands-down I’ve ever had. Online recipes can’t come close to replicating that flavor. Ahhh, to taste them again.

As an expat Brit, there's just no question here. Heinz. That's it.

IMO Bushs makes the best baked beans but i don't understand why you included Campells pork and beans on this list as they never claimed to be baked beans but just pork and beans. There is a big difference between the two.

B&M used to be the best, with a rich dark slow long time cooking, sticky, with a great flavor. But now, nobody does it like that, but a homemade crock pot, and your own rich loving ingredients.

I don’t usually care for baked beans, but my sweetheart loves them. I forwarded this to him so that he could enjoy it, and I expect that it’ll be part of our next grocery trip!

I generally agree with your list and review; but what I really liked was the variety of bean applications in meals you showed.

Big John's Beans 'n Fixins were my hubby's favorite until they were discontinued. Bush's Grillin' Beans are his current favorite, and the only prepared canned beans he will eat. (Wish I had time to make baked beans from scratch more often!)

I was raised in the panhandle of western Nebraska. From that area come 65 percent of the pinto and northern white beans in the entire world. The “whites” are the bean of choice for all baked beans. Although Van Camps was the favorite canned beans when I was growing up, the majority of baked beans were the product of family recipes and a plentiful supply of beans - many times right from the field. Most of these baked beans were simply delicious, but recipes were rarely shared. Remembering when always makes the taste better, and strangely enough it will never be duplicated.

When I was growing up in the 1960s/70s my mother always bought B&M baked beans and doctored them up. I think she added ketchup, brown sugar, onion, garlic powder, not sure exactly but they were so good. Then at some point we discovered Bush's beans and they were perfect right out of the can, tasted just as good as the B&M beans mom doctored up. I just bought a can of Kingsford baked beans, never had them before and haven't tried them yet so I don't know how they will taste. I was hoping they would be included in this review.

I'm from Maine, B&M Baked beans can only be topped by homemade 'bean hole beans' cooked in a pot, buried in hot wood coals. Rural communities in Maine often have "bean hole suppers" as community fund raisers, absolutely delicious.

Grandma Brown's Home Baked Beans are my personal favorite

Sponsored by Bush Brothers & Company. But seriously, they are my favorite baked beans by far.

I’m surprised B&M was rated so poorly as they are my favorite. Most of the beans listed here are very poor.

It’s funny to me how you guys like your baked beans sweet. When I was growing up our baked beans were always savoury or spicy.

Bush’s Baked Bean are Great, especially with the onion version! Brought on Bean every Saturday, Yankee upbringing🤗

Baked beans are one of the staples of my emergency food stash. Tasty hot or cold, plenty of calories and protein. Not to mention fiber, which is something people tend not to think about. And Bushes is my go to brand. They have a ton of different flavors, which helps reduce "food fatigue."

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I look at baked beans much the same way I look at most canned products.... as a starting point. Whether it's beans, pastas, soups or whatever, I almost always add my own personal touches to liven them up and I like to experiment. I prefer my beans thicker rather than watery and my 1st choice when I can find them is Superstore / No Name / Yellow Label plain variety in molasses. I'm in Canada so I'm not surprised you didn't rate them but if you're up here and you like baked beans, give 'em a try... but you will have to do as I do and add your own touches to them. They're a bit bland on their own but they make a great starting point.

As in finding a four leaf clover I once had four big pieces of bacon in one small pop top can of Bush's baked beans. What a jackpot win.

I prefer the Van Camps pork and beans and I use them for the base of my BBQ beans on my smoker

I lived in South Portland Maine when I was a young kid. If the wind was right you could smell the B & M plant, yum (if the wind was wrong you got the SD Warren paper mill in Westbrook, yuk). Extra bonus if they were making brown bread that day. B & M beans and Jordan's hot dogs were a Saturday night staple. Sometimes my grandmother would get fancy and throw them in a bean pot with a small pork roast. After cooking in the beans for a few hours the roast was basically baked bean infused pulled pork. My only complaint about B & M beans is they stopped putting in the queen bean. The square white gelatinous bean is the queen bean, the rest are just worker beans.

I love Bush's Vegetarian baked beans. They remind me of the baked beans I used to make, when all my kids were at home. Now, they are grown and have their own families, so I cut way back on cooking, since I don't have to cook for a big family anymore. I miss that, though.

Get Van Kamp's (which are cheaper) and doctor them with onion, mustard, bbq sauce, brown sugar, and crumbled bacon. Bake in the oven for about an hr and a half at 350, enjoy :)

I like to add a tablespoon of instant coffee to my large can of any Bush's, rebake them awhile in the oven. Gives them an extra smoky flavor.

I love the Bush Onion baked beans. Plus kudos for adding Duke to the Bush's reviews.

My mom always used Van camps. She added 1/2 lbs of bacon slices and bar be que sauce.Salt and pepper. A little paprica. It was the 60's. So I dont remember which Bar be que sauce it was. It was delish and a family staple. Bushes can't even come close how good these were. :)

I Love my Bush's baked beans right out of the can. Delicious.

I LOVE Bush's baked beans!

I find that most baked beans in stores are very pale compared to the baked bean my mother made. Back then no one sold baked beans in a can where we lived so mom had to make them. I know she soak them over night and added onion, pork and molasses and cooked in the oven in a ceramic bean pot but I do not know what else was added except water as the beans cooked and the water evaporated. They always came out really dark brown and slightly sweet but not over whelming. YUM YUM "Beans, Beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot. The more you toot the better you feel. Then your ready for another meal." LOL Yup, mom spoiled us and we did not even know it. The canned beans just do not cut it to mom's baked beans plus they are all over priced.

Thanks for reminding of big John's. I also liked the b&m in the glass jar.

Although limited in its distribution area, and currently out of production due to the coronavirus pandemic, the best baked beams ever are/were Grandma Brown's. I'm hoping they can restart production in the near future.

Made these last Independence Day - HUGE hit. Chop 1 green pepper and 1 onion, 2 cans pork n beans (I use one large can of original Bush beans), 4 - 5 slices bacon - cooked and chopped, 3/4 c ketchup, 1 1/4 c water, 1 teaspoon dry mustard, 3/4 c brown sugar. Mix together and bake COVERED for 2 hours at 350 degrees. Easily doubled for a crowd.

When I was a kid in the 70’s, we had our family hot dog or burger night with baked beans. I only liked Campbell’s & refused eating any other brand like Van Camp’s. Had to add to them brown sugar, mustard, and catsup… put in the over to ‘bake’. Never did the stove top.

Keep in mind that there is nothing stopping anyone from adding their own touches to any canned product and this includes beans . Take Campbells pork and beans for an example... Just add a bit of sweet relish and few dashes of hot sauce and it becomes quite favorable. BTW, for canned soups, I always add some dried parsley and a bit of butter substitute etc to them., and maybe a couple twists from my black pepper mill. Bottom line you, are always free to make most canned foods your own by adding your own flavor touches .

Original Bush's is the best, I can add my own heat, I can add more sweet, I love cooking a whole onion before adding the beans on top, a drizzle of taco bell mild sauce, and an extra pinch of garlic powder.

I sometimes will buy different brands and doctor them up by adding things to them, but my favorite brand is Bush's, usually country or maple.

I've eaten Campbell's Pork and Beans cold, straight out of the can many times, when I didn't feel like cooking! 😁

60 years ago I lived for Campbells beans with ground beef. Over the years food scientists and accountants (bean counters ha ha!) messed them to the point it’s had to find, or stomach, their beans. Having said that Bush’s beans rule!

Thumbs up Always!💕 I love bake beans I could eat it everyday! 🥰 The person who is reading this comment, I wish you great success, health, love and happiness 💖

I always have a couple cans of B&M Bacon & Onions beans in the cupboard.

Thank you for including English style baked beans! They are noticeably different from the lack of brown sugar that gives it a mild sweetness that is almost savory. They are perfect with breakfast foods. The British eat their beans way more often than we Americans do, especially as part of a traditional full breakfast.

my recipe...large Can of baked beans, small can of black beans, 1 lb of cooked ground beef, a large heaping helping of chopped onions and green pepper cooked with the gb, add a bit of brown sugar and a 1/4 stick of butter, mix and pour into covered aluminum baking pan then bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes...perfect!!!

Never heard of most of these brands. Heinz and Bush’s brands are the only two that stand out to me. I’ll eat leftover Bush’s cold right out of the fridge. I guess I need to try the vegetarian version, as they seem to be the winner on this list anyway. That grilled cheese sandwich with beans on it was a curious cutaway. I might need to try one of those as well.

Our pantry seems to have only Bush's baked beans in six different varieties. We do have packs of beans that are not canned. We do well with those also.

B&M bowel movement beans have always been my favorite. I remember hot dogs & beans night as a kid in the 60s & 70s fondly. Reading the comments, it sounds like a countrywide staple from San Francisco, where I grew up, to the east coast.

A lot of these reviews here on RU-vid aren’t worth a hill of beans. But this one was great! Thanks!

Always love B & M, baked beans can't go wrong!

I've always been a fan of Bush's Baked Beans and their wide variety of flavors. I've tested nearly all available brands of baked beans and Bush's are the best by far. My only concern is that the 8-oz cans, which used to be available in numerous tasty flavors, are becoming more difficult to find. I find that if I cook a 16-ounce can I eat the entire 16 ounces and my sugars go nuts. I'm hoping Bush brings back the 8-ounce cans. So flavorful.

My favorite brand is Bushs and I keep one or two cans on hand just when the mood strikes me to eat them out of a bowl or the can

Only recently learned how the British love beans with breakfast. Ahhhh. The things you learn the older you get

The Hickory Brown Sugar Busch Beans are the closest you can get to my family's with just openig a can. They definitely will do in a pinch!

The best baked beans in the world are New Zealand's Wattie's brand, in a savoury slightly sweet tomato sauce. most Kiwis won't eat any other brand. I have tried a few from Britain but nothing compares to Wattie's Baked Beans.

A good video overall. It would have been more useful if you mentioned more about the ingredients. Some beans are black beans while others are white beans. Many people prefer one over the other. Also what is used to sweeten the beans makes a difference. Some brands have the most unnecessary chemicals that it would be good to know about. Also is it right to include generic or store brand products since they are often, if not always, identical to an established brand? Also a generic/chain brand might change if the company signs a new contract with a different company. BTW You asked for a better place to grow tomatoes and I would suggest throughout much of South America where they originated. They weren't brought to Italy until those early explorers found them.

The video I've always been waiting for...."I got these baked beans too!"

I recently started trying different brands (Cheaper) of food. I had not had Campbell's beans in over 20 years. It was THE canned beans when I was growing up. I bought 2 cans on sale. They must have lost the recipe because they now suck. It is like they are over cooked and mushy. I am a Bush's beans fan, although some types are mushy too. Never even heard of over half of the other beans.

The B&M beans that came in the glass jar used to be my favorite, but I can't find them anymore. I also like the Cambells because they are versatile for cooking. Their flavor does not overwhelm the rest of the dish. These are also hard to find now. Bushes are good, but they are best as a stand-along dish.

In Philadelphia supermarkets you can buy Heinz Vegetarian (green label from Pittsburgh, PA) AND Heinz Beans (turquoise label from England). They taste the same but the American vegetarian beans are less expensive than the British variety.

I wonder where Farm Boy (a Canadian grocery brand) would sit on this list.

Did you even try Hanover Brand baked beans? They would certainly rank somewhere on your list.

I'm sorry, but speaking as a Brit, I think all canned baked beans in the USA are too sweet. Indeed, I think that most American processed food is too sweet, but then I was in a supermarket in Florida, where a lot of Europeans go for a bit of winter sun, a couple of years ago and they'd had what I thought of as a good idea in having sections of foods from different European countries like Italy (pasta, pesto, etc) France (cheese, bakery), Germany (cooked meats) and the UK, no doubt so that people could get the sort of grub they had in their own countries. The thing is that the UK section had the most appalling over-processed junk in it: HP sauce, Bisto gravy granules, Branston pickle, Angel Delight (A particularly disgusting milk pudding) etc. It all looked straight out of a museum of British life in the 1960s. The only thing it didn't have was Marmite, which is what it really needed. I recoiled in horror at the sight of this junk food, asking myself 'Is this the stuff the Yanks think we eat?'... and immediately realised that this was a shop, not a museum and it was all there to be sold. This was the junk we Brits really do eat... and it made me despair for my fellow countrymen.

During the 1970's on our way home from WDW, we would stop in Jacksonvilles Publix and almost clear out the shelf of Bushes baked beans until they were available in our area in Pennsylvania.

Baked beans in Ireland ☘ are very popular most people eat Bachelors brand and Heinz these two brands have been Irelands favourite baked bean forever its the sauce in both and the way the beans never stick in the can and of course The great taste beans are a good daily meal in a can beans on toast, liver and beans sausages and beans, Egg beans and chips bacon Black and white pudding and beans , yeah a tin of beans is a winner

Busch’s Country Style or Maple and they’re black beans grillin beans are my favorites. They quit manufacturing Big John’s several yrs ago,way before the pandemic. Big John’s if anyone remembers them from the 70s had a white band wrapped around it and the beans were separate from the sauce and, that was the reason for the white band, the sauce came in a different can, all you have to do is add the onion and raw bacon on top before you bake them in the oven, that sauce was really good. As a kid growing up my grandma and my mom would just also buy, just regular cans of pork and beans and, then, doctor them up. They made there own barbecue sauce, and pour them over the beans and, plenty of chopped onion and raw bacon over top and bake. They didn’t cook this barbecue sauce on top of the stop before they put them in because, the sauce would get heated through with the beans. My grandma and mom would put this homemade barbecue sauce in their meatloaf and, on top of it as well. I knew how to make this sauce at a very young age just by watching and helping them out in the kitchen. Today, I can still make this sauce blind folded. Back then, in the 70s they were called mostly pork n’beans and, there would be white square that sat in the beans, sometimes there was 2 of them in the can, it was like pork fat that looked like pats of butter. The goal was to get that square piece of pork fat out before the beans got in the oven. But, if you didn’t you sat at the supper table digging into the dish of baked beans to dig out that fat, then, to again keep spooning till you got the other, that was the only thing good about pork n’ beans.

I was raised on B&M and didn’t like baked beans at all. But I do like Campbells Pork and Beans for their Tomato based flavor.

The only one I seemed to like were the Bush's Baked Beans and the Van Camps. Although, the Van Camps has always been my go-to beans. Bush's, depending on what one you chose, BBQ baked beans were always too sweet for me so I always picked the non-BBQ versions.

I was born and raised in New England. We grew up on B&M beans. They're made in Portland Maine, my second fav is the Bush's Grillin beans

My overall #1 favorite is; BUSH'S ONION BAKED BEANS!!! I always dip out some of the juice first. Then... I add brown sugar and some honey to them, prior to cooking them down for a little, to thicken them up.

Brit here. Don't listen to the shouty woman on the video. Branston are the best tasting beans of the mainstream British manufacturers. A rich tomato sauce, although quite sweet, but with plenty of beans. Knocks spots off Heinz or Crosse and Blackwell.

I come to love Bush's Baked Beans after seeing the ads with Duke the dog in them. RIP Duke!😢

I’m willing to argue to the ends of the earth that UK Branston is the elite can of beans

tried em all B&M are the best by far

I love the idea of beans without sweetness. Definitely gonna try Mama's if I see a jar

Bush’s vegetarian baked beans is my favorite 😍 I love it 😍

I regularly eat beans, cold, out of the can, when I can’t be a’ed heating them.

I grew up in Minnesota and we always had B&M baked beans at every BBQ we had.

Was raised on Nally & Van Camp's brand, however as an adult I love Bushes.

Just remember baked beans may be our way out of the gasoline crisis. 😂😂😂

Nothing beats Boston baked beans! For those who don't understand the jocularity in that, they are red-candy coated peanuts. Wow, so Bush's takes the top 3 or 4! That says a LOT!

There was once (and possibly still), a brand called Hanover, which I used to buy at Rainbow Foods, here in Minnesota. That product blew away all competition. Without question.

i like B&M, friends, bushes, and we tried the walmart brand tonite and we liked them. some of the campbells and hienz are ok but i like to doctor them up with clove, mustard and molasses. i have a recipe from a martha stewart magazine i scored from the dentist office and they come out probably the best of anything. we love beans boston style, texas style and mexican style and i like all types of beans navy pea, great northern, kidney, pinto, red beans anasazi beans, black beans and any other i can find.

Heinz baked beans are NOT the same in the US as they are in the UK. Most noticeable is the difference in the level of sugar, with the UK being much less sweet than the US version.

If you live in upstate New York you're likely to love Grandma Brown's Baked Beans. No other brand in better.

Chop onion, worshestr,brown sug,smoke flavor, frank hot sauce, pound bacon! Simmer ❤

A Central New York regional favorite is Grandma Brown's Home Baked Beans.

Hi there...Campbell's has always been my choice of beans to make my homemade baked beans...I bought Van Camps thinking they'd be just as good as Campbell's NO WAY...nasty!! It will always be Campbell's for my recipes...But ...if I want baked beans already made I used to buy B&M beans in the jar but haven't been able to find them...

Thanks for your reviews of the various brands and types of caned baked beans. I was a little surprised that you did not rate B&M brand higher. I grew up on Hines or Cambelles brand that my mother would add her own extra to flavor them better than right out of the can. As an adult I tried various different brands but found B&M especially the traditional Boston style to be the best. I liked them so much I even occasionally eat some right out of the can. While Your top pick Bushes are also good to me B&M is just as good and usually priced lower than Bushes.

I grew up in Britain. 'A million housewives every day. pick up a tin of beans and say: Beans Means Heinz!' Was once voted the best love TV advert in British history. Look it up!

Get used to eating baked beans baby, with all the food shortages coming in from sanctions for Russia. No fertilizer to grow food.

According to her executive chef, Princess Di sometimes ate baked beans out of the can with a spoon before working out. Go figure!