PEANUT BUTTER BAR
by Reese's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0041000004261 · Reese's · Desserts. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
PEANUT BUTTER BAR by Reese's scores 85/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 32-component record, beginning with Nonfat Milk, Reese's Peanut Butter Sauce, Peanuts. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 85/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 32 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
50/100
Grade C-
Ingredient Safety
85/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00004261 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
PEANUT BUTTER BAR label screening desk
11 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: TBHQ). Source sheet 00004261 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Southern Sweet Tea Sweetened Iced Tea Mix · Nearest score peer is Southern Sweet Tea Sweetened Iced Tea Mix at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 24,982 products we've scored in the Frozen foods category, the average safety score is 92.9/100. PEANUT BUTTER BAR scores 7.9 points below that category average (85/100 vs. 92.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Desserts products
PEANUT BUTTER BAR lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 83rd percentile a longer ingredient list than 83% of the 11,156 products we track
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Distribution as text
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- 2 products (0%)
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- 828 products (7%)
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- 40 and above
- 754 products (7%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 11,156 Desserts products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 85/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 32 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
NONFAT MILK, REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER SAUCE [PEANUTS, SUGAR, PEANUT OIL, DEXTROSE, SALT, TBHQ (PRESERVATIVE)], CAKE CRUNCH [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, PALM OIL, CARAMEL (FOR COLOR), COCOA, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN], CORN SYRUP, MILK CHOCOLATE FLAVORED COATING [SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, COCONUT OIL, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), MILK, WHEY, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), SOY LECITHIN, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR], FRUCTOSE, COCONUT OIL, LESS THAN 2% OF: WHEY, CARAMEL (FOR COLOR), MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, TARA GUM, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR, VANILLA EXTRACT
Other products containing Reese's Peanut Butter Sauce
Reese's Peanut Butter Sauce is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 3 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for PEANUT BUTTER BAR
Neighbours outside Reese's with screening scores in the same high band as PEANUT BUTTER BAR (85/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Reese's; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (1 flagged of 32 on 0041000004261).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0041000004261).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
TBHQ is the first flagged ingredient selected from PEANUT BUTTER BAR's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 32-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to TBHQ. Open TBHQ
- Compare PEANUT BUTTER BAR's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0041000004261: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.