Unsalted Butter
Unsalted Butter appears in 1,456 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
Unsalted Butter appears in 1,456 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.
- 1,456
- catalogued products
- #519
- usage rank of 247,206
- 415
- named brands represented
- 49%
- 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: 291 of 1456 records have some flagged component, while the rest do not. Compare 2 Goat's Cheese & Caramelised Onion Tarts; 2 Lemon & Sultana Danish Pastries; 3 Meat Supreme Pizza With Pepperoni, Chicken to see how surrounding formulations change; do not assign their 0–100 score range to Unsalted 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.
291 of 1,456 linked records have some flagged component
All 1411 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.
Unsalted Butter: top-decile catalog footprint (#519 of 247,206)
- Usage rank
- #519
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, listed in more products than 99.8% of them.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 49%
- Of the way down the captured list, averaged across the 1,456 products listing it (mean slot 16.2). Unsalted 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.
Ranks use Open Food Facts ingredient rows on this site’s refresh cycle. 247,206 ingredients with ≥1 product appearance enter the ranking. Prevalence and list depth are catalog facts, not toxicology.
What else is usually in the same product as Unsalted Butter
Across the 1,456 products on this site that list Unsalted 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 2x more often with Unsalted Butter than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Unsalted Butter products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrageenan | 128 | 8.8% | 4.5% |
| Caramel Coloring | 90 | 6.2% | 5.7% |
| Polysorbate 60 | 51 | 3.5% | 1.4% |
| Sodium Nitrite | 42 | 2.9% | 2.4% |
| Titanium Dioxide | 24 | 1.6% | 2.1% |
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 Unsalted Butter
Products Containing Unsalted Butter
16 busy labels from the 1,456 indexed products that list Unsalted Butter:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass (near “Bacon”)
Top-decile company for Unsalted Butter: 1,456 listings averaging 96.8/100. Catalog-mass neighbours in view: Bacon; From Milk; Rice Vinegar.
Similar product count
Nearest other ingredients by Open Food Facts product count (floored at ≥50).
Similar mean product score
Nearest other ingredients by mean product screening score (floored at ≥50 scored products), distinct from the count row.
What to do with this Unsalted Butter record
Use the 1,456-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Unsalted Butter before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. See listed products
- Place Unsalted Butter next to “From Milk” (or another peer) using the same FDA/CSPI and prevalence fields. Compare a peer
- Check the methodology for how FDA SAFFA, CSPI, and Open Food Facts rows are joined on this site. See source joins
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Unsalted Butter — common follow-ups
Does Unsalted 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 Unsalted Butter. Compare like-for-like products before treating the average screening score as an ingredient verdict.
Which product shelves show up most often with Unsalted Butter? ▼
Unsalted Butter ranks in the top decile by product count (#519 of 247,206), appearing in 1,456 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Unsalted Butter so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Unsalted Butter appears in 1,456 products (#519 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Unsalted 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.