Butter fat, from least to most processed

We track 14 butter fat, 29% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Desi Ghee.

What makes butter fat ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of butter fat that contain each:

Processed culinary ingredient (10)

  1. 1 Desi Ghee Nanak · 56 oz NOVA group 2
  2. 2 Ghee Mother Dairy · 200ml NOVA group 2
  3. 3 Yeo Valley Salted Butter Yeo Valley · 200 g NOVA group 2
  4. 4 Pure Butter Ghee East End NOVA group 2
  5. 5 GHEE Clarified Butter Himalayan Pink Salt 4th & Heart · 9oz NOVA group 2
  6. 6 Ghee Kirkland Signature NOVA group 2
  7. 7 Slightly Salted Spreadable Co-op · 500g NOVA group 2
  8. 8 West Country Farmhouse Butter Sainsbury's Taste The Difference · 250g NOVA group 2
  9. 9 Softest Lurpak · 400 g NOVA group 2
  10. 10 Mantequilla con sal marina Arla · 300g NOVA group 2

Ultra-processed food (4)

  1. 11 Unsalted Butter Land O'Lakes · 453g NOVA group 4
  2. 12 Spreadable Anchor · 750 g NOVA group 4
  3. 13 British spreadable butter Dairy Manor · 500g NOVA group 4
  4. 14 Tesco Salted Spreadable Tesco · 500 g NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.