Butter & Spread · barcode 00000002982209
53% Vegetable Oil Spread
Blue Bonnet · Nabisco Food Company
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of butter & spread show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for butter & spread
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Butter, regular (salted): found in 2 of 20, average 0.15, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Margarine, regular (salted): found in 1 of 20, average 0.1, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
VEGETABLE OIL BLEND (LIQUID SOYBEAN OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL), WATER, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2%, OF THE FOLLOWING: DRIED WHEY, VEGETABLE MONO-AND DIGLYCERIDES AND SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIERS), POTASSIUM SORBATE AND SODIUM BENZOATE (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS), PHOSPHORIC ACID (ACIDULANT), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, COLORED WITH BETA CAROTENE (SOURCE OF VITAMIN A), FLAXSEED OIL.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.