Butter

Butter is not a marker of ultra-processing. It is one of the markers Open Food Facts uses to classify a food as processed (NOVA group 3).

What it is and why it counts

Butter, the fat churned from cream.

Culinary ingredients

These are group 2 ingredients, the kind a cook adds to whole foods. On their own they make a food processed (group 3), not ultra-processed.

More about butter on Wikidata

Where it turns up

Butter appears in 1,493 of the 40,000 products on this site (4%).

Products containing butter

Showing the 60 most popular of 1,493.

How the NOVA classification works