Is Reduced Fat Creamy Jif Peanut Butter ultra-processed?

40 oz Peanut butters Sold in the United States, France and Spain

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose
E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

20 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score C

Less processed peanut butters

Natural Creamy Peanut Butter Smucker's 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Peanut butter Smuckers 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Classic Peanut Butter Spread Justin's 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
PEANUT BUTTER from unblanched peanuts UNSALTED STIR Trader Joe's 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1

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, corn syrup solids (ultra-processing marker), sugar (processing marker), pea protein, contains 2% and less of salt fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed, soybean), mono- and not a significant source of vitamins, vitamin a, vitamin c, mono- and Diglycerides (ultra-processing marker), molasses (processing marker), magnesium oxide, niacinamide, Ferric Orthophosphate, Zinc Oxide, copper sulfate, folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Folic Acid

Additives: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Peanuts, corn syrup solids, sugar, pea protein, contains 2% or less of salt fully hydrogenated vegetable oils (rapeseed and soybean), mono and not a significant source of vitamin a and vitamin c, Mono And Diglycerides, molasses, magnesium oxide, niacinamide, Ferric Orthophosphate, Zinc Oxide, copper sulfate, folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Folic Acid

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.

E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.

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.

Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

1 ingredient that would only make it processed

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

Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 337 peanut butters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 320th. 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 0051500254998, last edited 2 September 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.