Is No Name Unsalted Butter ultra-processed?

454 g Unsalted butters Sold in Canada

Pack of No Name Unsalted 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.

  • 1 ingredient
  • No additives

Ingredients

cream

As written on the pack

Pasteurized cream (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 14th. 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 0060383685003, last edited 1 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.