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Is essential Waitrose Unsalted Dairy Butter ultra-processed?

250 g Unsalted butters Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

No, it's a kitchen staple

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

It is pressed or refined from a food and used for cooking, like oil, butter or sugar.

  • 1 ingredient
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Butter

As written on the pack

Butter (milk)

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Fats Products in the category "Fats" are at least group 2.
  • Animal fats Products in the category "Animal fats" are at least group 2.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 unsalted butters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 26% of the unsalted 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 31 unsalted butters, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169129104, last edited 27 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.