Swap guide: Beans

Dry beans and peas are pulse crops where glyphosate can be applied shortly before harvest. Lentils and chickpeas have their own guides. Here is what the sources say, and the certified beans and peas on ByeGly.

Why beans come up

• Pre-harvest use is registered on several pulses in Canada. Keep it Clean's 2026 advisory says glyphosate is registered for pre-harvest weed control on chickpeas, lentils, peas and dry beans, applied only when seed moisture is under 30% in the least mature part of the field.¹ Canada first registered pre-harvest use on peas, lentils and soybeans, among other crops, in 1992.²
• Buyers set limits too. Keep it Clean says most dry bean dealers do not accept pre-harvest glyphosate.³ Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers says most bean dealers "no longer accept pre-harvest glyphosate on dry beans."⁴
• U.S. use. Michigan State University Extension describes glyphosate as a preharvest weed control option in dry beans, applied at the hard dough stage (30% moisture or less), with a seven-day preharvest interval.⁵
• Pulse products are tested. In CFIA's 2015-2016 survey, glyphosate was detected in 47.4% of 869 bean, pea and lentil product samples, with 0.6% above Canadian limits.⁶

See the spray calendar for dry bean timing in Manitoba.

None of this tells you how a particular product was grown or made. That is what certifications are for. For what regulators have said about glyphosate, see Where agencies stand.

What to look for

• Glyphosate Residue Free or BioChecked Non-Glyphosate on the package: a lab did not detect glyphosate in the product at about 0.01 ppm. That is a detection limit, not zero, and it is not a health claim.
• USDA Certified Organic: glyphosate may not be used in organic crop production. It is not a residue test.
• Check the exact product. A certification covers the listed product, not everything a brand makes.

See How to read a label, Certifications explained and How we verify.

Certified beans on ByeGly

• Heyday Canning Co (Glyphosate Residue Free): Apricot Glazed Baked Beans; Cilantro Lime Pozole Verde; Enchilada Black Beans; Fire Roasted Sweet Potato Chili; Kimchi Sesame Navy Beans; Pinto & Black Bean Mole Chili; Tomato Alla Vodka Cannellini Beans. Where to buy: store locator; retailers named on the brand's site: Target, Whole Foods Market.
• Jovial Foods (Glyphosate Residue Free): Organic Black Beans; Organic Borlotti Beans; Organic Cannellini Beans; Organic Italian Cannellini Beans And Tomatoes; Organic Kidney Beans. Where to buy: store locator.
• Palouse Brand (Glyphosate Residue Free): Black Beans; Green Split Peas; Kidney Beans; Pinto Beans; Yellow Split Peas. Where to buy: retailers named on the brand's site: Amazon.

Only the exact products listed on ByeGly are certified as far as we can confirm. Other products from the same brand are not on our list unless they appear there.

Each listing on ByeGly shows the certification, a Source link to the brand page where we saw it, the date we last checked it, and a Buy link to the brand's own site. Where the brand's site has a store locator or names retailers, we show it next to the brand.

Related

• Lentils and chickpeas have their own guides.

Don't see what you buy? If it isn't listed, it's not on our list yet. Use Request a product to ask us to look at it. We add a listing only if we can confirm a named certification on the brand's own public site.

Sources

Product facts come from the live ByeGly product database (Supabase project byegly, public listings, read November 10, 2026). Product and certification names are shown as the brand writes them; where-to-buy details come from the brand's own site as recorded in that database.