Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups

Name: Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups
Brand: Reese's

13Avoid

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 1 contaminant flagged · 2 ingredients to avoid

Includes lab results from its product family: Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (US classic)

100

Lab-measured contaminants

Measured against published safety limits

−50

cadmium−50

Ingredients

−27

dextrose−12

milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, milk fat, lactose, lecithin (soy), pgpr)−11

tbhq & citric acid (to maintain freshness)−4

Processing

−10

NOVA 4: ultra-processed−10

Final score13

Contaminants · 4

1 at/over limit

From lab tests of this product’s family

Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (US classic)

This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Cadmium50 ppbof 5 ppb

Over the limit — 10×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Measured in: Peanut Butter Cups

ArsenicNDof 10 ppb

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

Measured in: Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup

LeadNDof 5 ppb

Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L

Measured in: Peanut Butter Cups

MercuryNDof 2 ppb

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

Measured in: Peanut Butter Cups

Ingredients · 6

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Common questions

Is Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups healthy?

Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups scores 13/100 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, plus lab results from its product family, Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (US classic). 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 Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups?

Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups lists 6 ingredients, starting with Peanuts, Sugar, Dextrose, Salt and Tbhq & Citric Acid (To Maintain Freshness). Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Reese's Miniatures 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 Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups?

Reese's Miniatures 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 Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups compare to other chocolate?

At 13/100 Reese's Miniatures 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 Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups organic?

Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups is not certified organic in our data.

Has Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Milk chocolate (cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, PGPR) with peanut butter filling, TBHQ and citric acid; US label. Cocoa and peanuts are the drivers; no rice, oil-based coating or filler.) with the other products in its family, Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (US classic), and 6 products in its family have been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups contain heavy metals?

Reese's Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected cadmium at 50 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Peanut Butter Cups. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Full methodology: how we score products.