Creamy peanut butters, from least to most processed

We track 48 creamy peanut butters, 25% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Smooth Peanut Butter.

What makes creamy peanut butters ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of creamy peanut butters that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (14)

  1. 1 Smooth Peanut Butter Meridian · 280 g NOVA group 1
  2. 2 Smooth Peanut Butter Grandessa · 1 kg NOVA group 1
  3. 3 Smooth Peanut Butter Maribel · 1kg NOVA group 1
  4. 4 100% peanut butter smooth Millies · 340g NOVA group 1
  5. 5 100% Peanut Butter Smooth M&S · 340g NOVA group 1
  6. 6 Peanut Butter Meridian · 470g NOVA group 1
  7. 7 Peanut butter Organic · 500g NOVA group 1
  8. 8 PEANUT BUTTER squeezy Grandessa NOVA group 1
  9. 9 Creamy crémeux Naturalia NOVA group 1
  10. 10 Smooth Peanut Butter Asda · 340 g NOVA group 1
  11. 11 Peanut butter Smuckers · 16 oz (1 lb) (454 g) NOVA group 1
  12. 12 Ekologiskt jordnötssmör, smooth utan salt ICA i❤️eco · 350 g NOVA group 1
  13. 13 Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Smooth Laura Scudder's · 26OZ (1LB 10OZ) 737g NOVA group 1
  14. 14 Creamy Dark Roast Peanut Butter Santa Cruz Organic · 16 oz NOVA group 1

Processed culinary ingredient (6)

  1. 15 Peanut Butter ONLY PEANUTS Kraft · 750 g NOVA group 2
  2. 16 Peanut Butter Once Again · 16 oz NOVA group 2
  3. 17 Organic Creamy Peanut Butter Kirkland · 793.8 g NOVA group 2
  4. 18 Creamy Peanut Butter Simply Nature NOVA group 2
  5. 19 Creamy Peanut Butter Organic Great Value · 16 oz NOVA group 2
  6. 20 Organic Creamy Peanut Butter Wellsley Farms NOVA group 2

Processed food (16)

  1. 21 Smooth Peanut Butter Pip & Nut · 300 g NOVA group 3
  2. 22 Smooth Peanut Butter Fix & Fogg · 750 g NOVA group 3
  3. 23 Ekologiskt Jordnötssmör Creamy Garant · 350 g NOVA group 3
  4. 24 Smooth Peanut butter Änglamark · 350g NOVA group 3
  5. 25 Smooth Peanut Butter Whole Earth · 454 g NOVA group 3
  6. 26 Smooth Peanut Butter Sainsbury's · 340g NOVA group 3
  7. 27 Smooth Peanut Butter Co-op · 340g NOVA group 3
  8. 28 Peanut butter spread Peter Pan · 40 oz NOVA group 3
  9. 29 Peanut Butter Aldi · 340 g NOVA group 3
  10. 30 Smooth Peanut Butter Tesco · 340 g NOVA group 3
  11. 31 Peanut Butter Smooth Grandessa · 340 g NOVA group 3
  12. 32 smooth peanut butter No Name · 1 kg NOVA group 3
  13. 33 Creamy No Stir Peanut Butter Spread Trader Joe's · 16oz (454g) NOVA group 3
  14. 34 Peanut Butter Creamy Dazzley · 350 g NOVA group 3
  15. 35 Jordnötssmör - Extra Smooth Coop · 350g NOVA group 3
  16. 36 Jordnötssmör Creamy Estrella · 340 g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (12)

  1. 37 Extra Smooth Skippy · 340g NOVA group 4
  2. 38 Extra Smooth Creamy Peanut Butter Skippy · 340 g NOVA group 4
  3. 39 Creamy Peanut Butter Peanut Delight · 1130 g NOVA group 4
  4. 40 Peanut Butter Kroger NOVA group 4
  5. 41 Peanut Delight Creamy Peanut Butter Peanut Delight · 18 oz NOVA group 4
  6. 42 Creamy peanut butter creamy Skippy NOVA group 4
  7. 43 Reeses Creamy Peanut Butter Reese's · 510 g NOVA group 4
  8. 44 Creamy Peanut Butter Jif · 16oz NOVA group 4
  9. 45 Smooth Kraft · 1 kg NOVA group 4
  10. 46 Peanut Butter Jif · 28oz NOVA group 4
  11. 47 Smooth Peanut Butter Kraft · 500 g NOVA group 4
  12. 48 Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Skippy · 462 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.