Smooth Margarine
Smooth Margarine by Mother's has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4.5 out of 5, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
- Safety score 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Fats / Spreads / Plant-based spreads / Salted spreads / Spreadable fats / Vegetable fats / Margarines / Unsalted margarines
How This Score Is Built
Smooth Margarine 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 Smooth Margarine sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4.5 Top 29% higher than 71% 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
COTTONSEED OIL, WATER, PALM AND PALM KERNEL OIL, VEGETABLE MONOGLYCERIDES, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE (VIT.A), ANNATTO.
Product Details
- Brand
- Mother's
- Barcode
- 0028100084263
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Smooth Margarine above or below average on ingredient safety?
With an average ingredient safety score of 4.5/5, Smooth Margarine sits ahead of 71% of the 58,710 PlainIngredients products carrying a scored ingredient list, 0.38 points above the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4.5/5 rating on Smooth Margarine?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4.5/5 average places Smooth Margarine 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.