Creamy peanut butter: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in creamy peanut butter?

Of 69 packs of creamy peanut butter whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list peanuts, 10% list soy, 6% list tree nuts and 3% list gluten. Another 25% carry a “may contain” line for tree nuts, 7% for soy and 3% for gluten. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

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What is creamy peanut butter usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of creamy peanut butter list, with the share of packs that list each: peanut (100%), salt (80%), sugar (46%) and roasted peanut (39%).

• Peanut100%
• Salt80%
• Sugar46%
• Roasted peanut39%
• Sea salt29%
• Palm oil26%
• Rapeseed oil17%
• Cane sugar13%
• Hydrogenated vegetable oil12%
• Peanut oil12%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 41 · United States 22 · United Kingdom 15 · Canada 13.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for creamy peanut butter.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is creamy peanut butter?

In the Open Food Facts categories, creamy peanut butter is a kind of peanut butter.

What else is creamy peanut butter called?

Portuguese

Manteigas de amendoim cremosas

Swedish

Jordnötssmör utan bitar, Creamy jordnötssmör

Danish

Cremede jordnøddesmør, Creamy jordnøddesmør

Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
3. Open Food Facts: Creamy peanut butter

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