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Is Kerrygold Salted Irish Butter ultra-processed?

8 oz Butters Sold in the United States

Pack of Kerrygold Salted Irish Butter

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.

  • 2 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

cream, salt

As written on the pack

Pasteurized cream, salt

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 264 butters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 40th. 23% of the 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 264 butters, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0767707002149, last edited 19 April 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.