Peanut Butter Cups

Name: Peanut Butter Cups
Brand: Reese's

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Contaminants · 4

1 at/over limit

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

ArsenicNDof 10 ppb

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

LeadNDof 5 ppb

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

MercuryNDof 2 ppb

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

Ingredients · 13

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Common questions

Is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups healthy?

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups scores 0/100 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 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups lists 13 ingredients, starting with Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Non Fat Milk and Milk Fat. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Reese's Peanut Butter Cups contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Reese's 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 Peanut Butter Cups?

Reese's 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 Peanut Butter Cups compare to other chocolate?

At 0/100 Reese's 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 Peanut Butter Cups organic?

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

Has Reese's Peanut Butter Cups been lab tested?

Yes. 4 substances in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have an independent laboratory result on file — see the Contaminants section above for each reading and the limit it was measured against.

Full methodology: how we score products.