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Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces

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Contaminants · 4

1 at/over limit
From lab tests of this product’s family
Santa Cruz Organic Dark Roasted Peanut Butter
This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

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

Cadmium78 ppbof 5 ppb
Over the limit — 16×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Organic Dark Roasted Creamy Peanut Butter
Arsenic9 ppbof 10 ppb
90% of the limitFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)
Measured in: Organic Dark Roasted Creamy Peanut Butter
LeadNDof 5 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Organic Dark Roasted Creamy Peanut Butter
MercuryNDof 2 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L
Measured in: Organic Dark Roasted Creamy Peanut Butter

Ingredients · 2

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Common questions

Is Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces healthy?

Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces scores 30/100 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, Santa Cruz Organic Dark Roasted Peanut Butter. 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 Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces?

Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces lists 2 ingredients, starting with Organic Roasted Peanuts and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces’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 Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces?

Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces is NOVA group 3: processed, but not ultra-processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces compare to other nut & seed butters?

At 30/100 Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces scores worse than most nut & seed butters we have scored. A higher-scoring option in nut & seed butters is Good & Gather Organic Stir Crunchy Peanut Butter at 100/100.

Is Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces organic?

Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces is not certified organic in our data.

Has Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Organic dark roasted peanuts, salt, sometimes a little palm oil; no other nut or seed) with the other products in its family, Santa Cruz Organic Dark Roasted Peanut Butter, and 2 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 Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces contain heavy metals?

Santa Cruz Organic - Peanut Butter Organic Dark Roast Creamy - Case Of 6-26 Ounces itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected arsenic at 9 ppb against a 10 ppb limit in Organic Dark Roasted Creamy Peanut Butter and cadmium at 78 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Organic Dark Roasted Creamy Peanut Butter. 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.

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