Well, beans are very nutritious and healthy! But baked beans contain a lot of molasses and sugar which isn't ideal. Still, they aren't terrible. A large serving of these baked beans contains 17 grams of sugar. A small piece of yellow cake with chocolate icing has 56 grams of sugar. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs long as you eat a reasonable amount of baked beans and not an entire pot (and you don't have diabetes) then they're a perfectly healthyish side dish.