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Is Kraft Smooth ultra-processed?

1 kg Creamy peanut butters Sold in Canada and France

Pack of Kraft Smooth

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:

  • 11 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed creamy 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

Select roasted peanuts, Sugars (com maltodextrin, sugar), Soybean oil, Salt, Hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed vegetable oil, rapeseed vegetable oil), oil, mono- and diglycerides

Additives: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Select roasted peanuts, Sugars (com maltodextrin, sugar), Soybean oil, Salt, Hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and rapeseed oil), Mono - and diglycerides.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

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.

  • Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.
3 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 48 creamy peanut butters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 45th. 25% of the creamy 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 48 creamy peanut butters, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0068100083293, last edited 28 August 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.