Supermarket baked beans taste test – ‘A half-tin portion of this popular brand contains the equivalent of three teaspoons of sugar’

Whether or not you think that baked beans have any place in a cooked breakfast – a topic guaranteed to provoke lively debate, followed rapidly by another discussion on whether they should be contained in a ramekin to separate them from all the other elements – chances are there are a tin or two in your kitchen cupboard, on standby for when a cheap and comforting meal is required.