Garlic butter
Garlic butter by Private Selection has 1 tracked ingredient, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 2
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How This Score Is Built
Garlic butter draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 1 of its 1 tracked ingredient is scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.
Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.
Where Garlic butter sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% 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
Processed culinary ingredients are substances obtained from foods through processes like pressing, refining, or milling. They are used in home and restaurant kitchens.
Full Ingredients List
Butter (cream, salt), salt, parmesan cheese (pasteurized part skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, sea salt, enzymes), garlic, spices, garlic powder, basil.
Product Details
- Brand
- Private Selection
- Barcode
- 0011110829122
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 2 — Processed culinary ingredients
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Garlic butter rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Garlic butter's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?
Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Garlic butter's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk 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.