Peanut Butter Coating
Peanut Butter Coating appears in 55 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
Peanut Butter Coating appears in 55 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.
- 55
- catalogued products
- #4,670
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 24%
- 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.
Peanut Butter Coating sits in the busiest tenth of the catalog (#4,670 / 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #4,670
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 61 others that also appear in exactly 55 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 24%
- Averaged label depth puts Peanut Butter Coating near the top of the captured list (24% of list length, mean slot 11.4). Compound ingredients and OCR noise mean this cannot stand in for quantity.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
Reading this ingredient record
Use prevalence before concern
Only 18.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Peanut Butter Coating spans 24 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Butter Finger Popcorn; Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Candy Pieces; Fisher, nut exactly, snack bites, peanut popcorn dipped in peanut butter when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 87.0/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 55 of 55 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Peanut Butter Coating
Across the 55 products on this site that list Peanut Butter Coating, 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. Blue 1 shows up about 3.5x more often with Peanut Butter Coating than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Peanut Butter Coating products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue 1 | 8 | 14.5% | 4.2% |
| Red 40 | 6 | 10.9% | 5.4% |
| Yellow 5 | 6 | 10.9% | 4.8% |
| Yellow 6 | 6 | 10.9% | 3.4% |
| Blue 2 | 6 | 10.9% | 0.9% |
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 Peanut Butter Coating
Products Containing Peanut Butter Coating
A sample of 16 high-volume listings among the 55 indexed products containing Peanut Butter Coating:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “100% Organic Grass Fed Beef”)
High-volume peers for Peanut Butter Coating: 55 products, mean screening score 87/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: 100% Organic Grass Fed Beef; Acai Juice; Added As Preservatives. Axes below stay distinct so count-neighbors do not duplicate score-neighbors.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Peanut Butter Coating page
55 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Peanut Butter Coating are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Review the sampled product records that list Peanut Butter Coating to see how the ingredient appears in actual labels. Open product sample
- Place Peanut Butter Coating next to “Acai Juice” (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. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Peanut Butter Coating? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Peanut Butter Coating, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#4,670 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Peanut Butter Coating? ▼
Peanut Butter Coating ranks in the top decile by product count (#4,670 of 247,206), appearing in 55 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Peanut Butter Coating so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Peanut Butter Coating appears in 55 products (#4,670 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Peanut Butter Coating). 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.