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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Peanut Butter Cups

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Ingredients · 21

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Nutrition facts

NutrientPer 100gPer serving
Calories481 kcal481 kcal
Fat21 g21 g
Saturated fat17 g17 g
Carbohydrates64 g64 g
Sugars60 g60 g
Protein13 g13 g
Sodium0 g0 g
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Common questions

Is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups healthy?

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups scores 5/100 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. Per serving it carries 13g protein and 60g sugar. 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 21 ingredients, starting with Sugar, Partially Defatted Peanuts, Vegetable Fats, Tuy Hydrogenated Palm Kernel and Palm. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

How many calories are in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups?

481 kcal per serving, or 481 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Reese's Peanut Butter Cups on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

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 5/100 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?

Not yet. No independent lab has published results for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, so its score is based on its ingredient list, processing and packaging alone.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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