Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread
Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread by Smart Balance has 5 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.8 out of 5, 0.68 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is D.
- Safety score 0.68 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
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How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 5 of 5 ingredients tracked for Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.8 Top 16% higher than 84% 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
Water, oil blend (canola, palm fruit, fish, and olive oils), plant sterols, contains less than 2% of: salt, vegetable monoglycerides of vegetable fatty acids (emulsifier), pectin, natural and artificial flavors, lactic acid (to protect freshness), beta-carotene (color), vitamin a palmitate, vitamin d, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium edta and tbhq (to preserve freshness).
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4.8/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 5.
Product Details
- Brand
- Smart Balance
- Barcode
- 0033776019501
- Nutri-Score
- Grade D
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Where does Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread rank on ingredient safety?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread's 4.8/5 average puts it in the safer 84%, 0.68 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.8/5 rating on Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Smart balance, heart right, light buttery spread's mapped ingredients average out to 4.8/5, which is 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.