Butter
Butter appears in 16,924 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Butter appears in 16,924 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 16,924
- catalogued products
- #57
- usage rank of 247,206
- 3,214
- named brands represented
- 50%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
How to use this page
Separate this ingredient from its product neighborhood
This is a mixed product neighborhood: 5064 of 16924 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 100% all natural turkey meatballs in tomato sauce; 100% Real Ice Cream; 100% real ice cream to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Butter itself. The ingredient most often sits in the upper half of the list, and Snacks supplies the most useful like-for-like starting point for a label review.
5064 of 16,924 linked records have some flagged component
All 16598 NOVA-classified records cluster most heavily in Group 4, while the first-category labels split across several shelves. That makes the 0–100 score spread more informative than the average alone: investigate the low end, identify the actual flagged row, and compare it with a similar unflagged formulation before drawing a conclusion.
Next check: pair one flagged product with a similar unflagged product from the same shelf category.
High-volume listing for Butter - usage rank #57
- Usage rank
- #57
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 50%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 17,002 products listing it (mean slot 15.4). Butter usually falls in the upper half of the list; this position does not measure its amount because source formatting, compound ingredients and labeling exceptions vary.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
What else is usually in the same product as Butter
Across the 16,924 products on this site that list Butter, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Carrageenan shows up about 2.7x more often with Butter than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Butter products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 2,028 | 12% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 1,498 | 8.9% | 5.7% |
| Yellow 5 | 1,037 | 6.1% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 974 | 5.8% | 3.4% |
| Red 40 | 810 | 4.8% | 5.4% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Butter
Products Containing Butter
16 busy labels from the 16,924 indexed products that list Butter:
Butter vs other top-decile catalog footprints
Butter sits among other busy catalog rows (16,924 products, mean score 91.7/100). Nearest count peers include “Artificial Flavor”, “Malted Barley Flour”, “Honey”. Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
What to do with this Butter record
16,924 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Butter are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Check the listed products containing Butter before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Butter next to “Malted Barley Flour” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Browse ingredient records
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. Read the methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Butter
Does Butter carry its own safety label in this catalog? ▼
This is a mixed neighborhood: some linked products carry a separate flag while others do not. This snapshot does not attach a standalone FDA/CSPI verdict to Butter. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Butter? ▼
Butter ranks in the top decile by product count (#57 of 247,206), appearing in 16,924 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Butter so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Butter appears in 16,924 products (#57 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Butter). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.