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Is Algood Food Company Creamy Peanut Butter ultra-processed?

16 oz Peanut butters Sold in the United States

Pack of Algood Food Company Creamy Peanut Butter

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 12 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed peanut butters

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Peanuts, dextrose, contains 2% and less of (oils, rapeseed oils), cottonseed oils, soybean, monoglycerides, molasses, honey, sugar, and salt

As written on the pack

Peanuts, dextrose, contains 2% or less of: fully hydrogenated oils (rapeseed, cottonseed, soybean, monoglycerides, molasses, honey, sugar, and salt.

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Oil An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 337 peanut butters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 327th. 22% of the peanut butters here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 337 peanut butters, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0088252010107, last edited 4 January 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.