Crab spread, buttery
Crab spread, buttery by Spartan has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 5 out of 5, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Meats and their products / Meats / Prepared meats
How This Score Is Built
This 1-5 scale is an editorially-derived index, not an official government rating -- it synthesizes FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research. For Crab spread, buttery, 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients carry a scored rating so far, current as of 2026-09-07.
Data draws on Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records -- cross-check with the FDA → directly, or read how we score it.
Where Crab spread, buttery sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
5 Top 15% higher than 85% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Imitation crabmeat (fish protein [pollock, whiting and/or arrowtooth flounder], water, wheat starch, sugar, egg whites, corn starch, sorbitol, contains 2% or less of: salt, modified food starch, natural and artificial flavors, soybean oil, sodium tripolyphosphate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, paprika oleoresin, carmine, corn syrup, soy lecithin, color added), cream cheese (pasteurized milk and cream, cheese culture, salt, stabilizers [carob bean, xanthan, guar gum]), mayonnaise (soybean oil, corn syrup, water, egg yolks, distilled and cider vinegars, salt, spices, calcium disodium edta added to protect flavor), water, butter powder (butter [cream, salt], nonfat dry milk, buttermilk, sodium citrate, citric acid, tocopherol [used as an antioxidant], beta carotene [used as color]), lemon juice (filtered water, lemon juice concentrate, sodium bisulfite [preservative], sodium benzoate, lemon oil), minced onion, sugar, potassium sorbate, xanthan gum.
Product Details
- Brand
- Spartan
- Barcode
- 0001121303205
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Crab spread, buttery's safety score compare to other products?
Crab spread, buttery scores 5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, safer than 85% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.88 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Crab spread, buttery's 5/5 score be read?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Crab spread, buttery's 5/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Generally Safe tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.