Trader Joe's Heavy Cream plastic bottle

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 3 ingredients to watch

Trader Joe's Heavy Cream plastic bottle scores 85/100 on Tallow — our clean 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.

Trader Joe's Heavy Cream plastic bottle lists 4 ingredients, starting with Cream, Carrageenan, Mono and Diglycerides and Vitamin D3. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

At 85/100 Trader Joe's Heavy Cream plastic bottle sits in our top band, among the better butter & cream we have scored. A higher-scoring option in butter & cream is Organic Valley Organic Grassmilk Half & Half at 100/100.