Peanut Butter Cups

Name: Peanut Butter Cups
Brand: Reese's

0Avoid

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 1 contaminant flagged · 3 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

−45

soy lecithin−12

dextrose−11

tbhq−11

chocolate−4

pgpr−4

citric acid−3

Processing

−10

NOVA 4: ultra-processed−10

Adjustments

What it takes to land on the final number

Minimum score+5

Final score0

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

Contaminants · 1

Includes lab tests of other products in its family

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

Worst result per contaminant across the family

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

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

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, 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 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 a laboratory result on file — see the Contaminants section above for each reading and the limit it was measured against. Other products in its family (Reese's Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups (US classic)), which share its base recipe, were lab tested too. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Their results are in the family's Contaminants section above.

Does Reese's Peanut Butter Cups contain heavy metals?

Yes. A lab detected cadmium at 50 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. It also tested for lead, arsenic and mercury and found none above its detection limit. Each reading is in the Contaminants section above. Other products in its family, which share its base recipe, were tested too: a lab tested them for arsenic and found none above its detection limit. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests.

Full methodology: how we score products.