Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

Name: Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Brand: Justin's

1Avoid

Contaminants · 4

2 at/over limit

Measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Cadmium104 ppbof 5 ppb

Over the limit — 21×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Lead11 ppbof 5 ppb

Over the limit — 2.2×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

ArsenicNDof 10 ppb

Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)

MercuryNDof 2 ppb

Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L

Ingredients · 7

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Common questions

Is Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups healthy?

Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups scores 1/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups?

Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups lists 7 ingredients, starting with Organic Peanuts, Organic Cane Sugar, Sea Salt, Organic Peanut Flour and Organic Palm Oil. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups?

Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups compare to other chocolate?

At 1/100 Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups scores worse than most chocolate we have scored. A higher-scoring option in chocolate is Hu Organic Hazelnut Butter + Hazelnut Crunch Milk Chocolate at 100/100.

Is Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups organic?

Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups is not certified organic in our data.

Has Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups been lab tested?

Yes. 4 substances in Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups have a laboratory result on file — see the Contaminants section above for each reading and the limit it was measured against.

Does Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups contain heavy metals?

Yes. A lab detected lead at 11 ppb against a 5 ppb limit and cadmium at 104 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Justin's Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups. It also tested for arsenic and mercury and found none above its detection limit. Each reading is in the Contaminants section above.

Full methodology: how we score products.