Original Peanut Butter Spread

Original Peanut Butter Spread: 4/5 ingredient safety

Original Peanut Butter Spread by Better'N, Better'n Peanut Butter has 2 tracked ingredients, 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 C.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Legumes and their products / Fats / Spreads / Plant-based spreads / Vegetable fats / Oilseed purees / Legume butters / Peanut butters

How This Score Is Built

Original Peanut Butter Spread 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). 2 of its 2 tracked ingredients are 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 Original Peanut Butter Spread 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

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 2 tracked ingredients
2
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
C
Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

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

Defatted peanut flour, rice syrup, water, peanut butter, tapioca syrup, vegetable glycerin, cane sugar, vanilla, salt, peanut oil, colors (paprika, annatto), calcium carbonate, soy lecithin.

Product Details

Barcode
0016459200113
Nutri-Score
Grade C
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States,World

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Original Peanut Butter Spread rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Original Peanut Butter Spread'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; Original Peanut Butter Spread'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.