Is Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter ultra-processed?

462 g Creamy peanut butters Sold in the United States and Mexico

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose
Hydrogenated oil
E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

20 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score C

Less processed creamy peanut butters

Peanut butter Smuckers 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Creamy Dark Roast Peanut Butter Santa Cruz Organic 3 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Smooth Laura Scudder's 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1
Organic Creamy Peanut Butter Kirkland 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 2

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

Roasted peanuts, corn syrup solids (ultra-processing marker), sugar, soy protein, salt, hydrogenated vegetable oil (ultra-processing marker) (cottonseed, soybean, rapeseed oil), to prevent separation, mono- and diglycerides (ultra-processing marker), minerals (magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, ferric orthophosphate, copper sulfate), vitamins (niacinamide, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid)

Additives: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Roasted peanuts, corn syrup solids, sugar, soy protein concentrate, salt, hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed, soybean and rapeseed oil) to prevent separation, mono - and diglycerides, minerals (magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, ferric orthophosphate, copper sulfate), vitamins (niacinamide, 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.
Hydrogenated oil Hydrogenation turns liquid oil into a solid fat that resists going rancid.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 48 creamy peanut butters

From least to most processed, this one ranks 48th. 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 0037600105002, last edited 19 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.