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Nutter Butter Cereal Made With Real Peanut Butter: Longevity analysis

Updated 2026-10-17 · Nutter Butter

Quick answer

Special Occasion Choice

Nutter Butter cereal made with real peanut butter received a Longevity Score of 38 out of 100 (special occasion choice). Refined corn and sugar base with artificial dyes, hydrogenated oil, and BHT; limited whole-food content despite peanut butter. Strengths include real peanuts as a flavor component, modest protein per serving, and fortified with vitamins and minerals, while main considerations include sugar and dextrose are prominent ingredients, artificial colors red 40, yellow 5, blue 1, yellow 6, and hydrogenated vegetable oil and bht preservative.

Longevity Score 38/100

What helped the score?

  • Contains real peanuts as a flavor component
  • Modest protein per serving
  • Fortified with vitamins and minerals

What held the score back?

  • Sugar and dextrose are prominent ingredients
  • Artificial colors Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6
  • Hydrogenated vegetable oil and BHT preservative

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Source data, GTIN, and Healthy Food Guide analysis details

Product facts

Product
Nutter Butter Cereal Made With Real Peanut Butter
Category
Breakfast & Cereal (source: Cereal)
GTIN / UPC
00884912289858
Serving size
41 g (1 1/4 cup)
Source data — ingredients
Ingredient list from product label data (see Sources)
Healthy Food Guide analysis
Independent Longevity and Food Integrity scorecards. See methodology under Sources.
Data last verified

Nutter Butter

Cereal Made With Real Peanut Butter

Special Occasion Choice

KarbCoach Recommendation

Special Occasion Choice

Refined corn and sugar base with artificial dyes, hydrogenated oil, and BHT; limited whole-food content despite peanut butter.

What Stands Out

Low Fiber

1g fiber

3% DV

High Added Sugar

16g added sugar

32% DV

Refined Grains

refined corn flour base

Artificial Colors

Red 40

Added Sweetener

sugar

Contains Seed Oils

canola oil

Whole Foods

peanuts, whole grain oat flour

DV = Percent of Daily Value based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Key Positives

  • Contains real peanuts as a flavor component
  • Modest protein per serving
  • Fortified with vitamins and minerals

Key Concerns

  • Sugar and dextrose are prominent ingredients
  • Artificial colors Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6
  • Hydrogenated vegetable oil and BHT preservative
  • Low fiber from refined corn flour

Ingredient Signals

Primary protein

peanuts

Whole-food ingredients

peanutswhole grain oat flour

Processing signals

refined corn flour basehydrogenated vegetable oilartificial and natural flavorfortified vitamin and mineral blend

Additives

BHT preservativecalcium carbonateniacinamidezinc oxidenatural and artificial flavor

Seed oils

canola oilcottonseed, soybean, canola hydrogenated oil

Artificial colors

Red 40Yellow 5Blue 1Yellow 6

Added sweeteners

sugardextrose

Ingredients

Ingredient list

CORN FLOUR, SUGAR, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, DEXTROSE, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COTTONSEED, SOYBEAN, CANOLA), SALT), DEXTROSE, WHOLE GRAIN OAT FLOUR, CANOLA OIL, SALT, CALCIUM CARBONATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40, YELLOW 5, BLUE 1, YELLOW 6, BHT ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS. VITAMINS AND MINERALS: REDUCED IRON, NIACINAMIDE (VITAMIN B3), ZINC OXIDE, THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE (VITAMIN B5), PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), FOLIC ACID.

Formulations can vary — check the package label for the final word.

Macronutrients

Calories

180

9% DV

Total Carbs

31g

11% DV

Protein

2g

4% DV

Saturated Fat

1g

5% DV

Fiber

1g

3% DV

Net Carbs

30g

11% DV

Sugar

16g

Added Sugar

16g

32% DV

Total Fat

5g

6% DV

Sodium

200mg

9% DV

Cholesterol

0mg

0% DV

Unsaturated Fat

4g

DV = Percent of Daily Value based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Nutrition at a Glance

Nutrition at a Glance
NutrientAmount% Daily Value
Calories1809% DV
Total Carbs31g11% DV
Protein2g4% DV
Saturated Fat1g5% DV
Fiber1g3% DV
Net Carbs30g11% DV
Sugar16g—
Added Sugar16g32% DV
Total Fat5g6% DV
Sodium200mg9% DV
Cholesterol0mg0% DV
Unsaturated Fat4g—

DV = Percent of Daily Value based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Amounts are per labeled serving from source data. Check the package for the final values.

Longevity scores estimate how this product’s nutrition and ingredient profile fit longer-term eating patterns. Formulations can vary — check the package label. Not medical advice. Some nutrient values may be estimated when the label is incomplete.

How this product may fit different goals

The same food can look different depending on what matters most to you. Here is a general preview of how this product may align with several common goals.

  • Low-Spike Stability

    Watch-outs

    Metabolic Health

    For someone prioritizing Low-Spike Stability, the analysis identifies considerations that may matter more than the general product score alone.

    A consideration: Higher net carbs (30g)

    This product has 3 additional signals for this goal.

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  • Heart-Healthy Eating

    Supportive

    Metabolic Health

    For someone prioritizing Heart-Healthy Eating, the available data suggest this product may align in helpful ways.

    A supportive signal: Low saturated fat (1g)

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  • GLP-1 Eating Support

    Watch-outs

    Metabolic Health

    For someone prioritizing GLP-1 Eating Support, the analysis identifies considerations that may matter more than the general product score alone.

    A consideration: Lower protein (2g)

    This product has 1 additional signal for this goal.

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  • Low Sugar Lifestyle

    Watch-outs

    Metabolic Health

    For someone prioritizing Low Sugar Lifestyle, the analysis identifies considerations that may matter more than the general product score alone.

    A consideration: Higher sugar (16g)

    This product has 2 additional signals for this goal.

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  • Appetite & Portion Awareness

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    Metabolic Health

    For someone prioritizing Appetite & Portion Awareness, the analysis identifies considerations that may matter more than the general product score alone.

    A consideration: Higher sugar (16g)

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  • Athletic Fueling

    Watch-outs

    Athletic Performance

    For someone prioritizing Athletic Fueling, the analysis identifies considerations that may matter more than the general product score alone.

    A consideration: Carbohydrate is almost entirely sugar (16g of 31g carbs)

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Understanding the Longevity analysis

What the Longevity analysis evaluates

The Longevity analysis looks at how a food fits broader dietary patterns over time. It combines nutritional composition with processing and ingredient-quality considerations, including ideas that originated in Meal Power Points and Food Integrity. The Longevity Score summarizes that wider picture on a 0–100 scale. It is educational context for packaged foods, not medical advice and not a guarantee of health outcomes.

Nutrients, balance, processing, and ingredients

Nutritional composition matters: protein, fiber, carbohydrates, glucose-related characteristics, fats, sodium, and micronutrients all influence how a food may support or challenge different dietary goals. Processing level and ingredient quality still count, because formulation can change the practical meaning of an otherwise tidy nutrient panel. Longevity treats those dimensions together rather than as a single nutrient number.

Who may prioritize Longevity

People following low-carbohydrate, keto-style, high-protein, glucose-conscious, or longevity-focused eating patterns often start with the Longevity analysis. It is also useful when you want one place that connects macros and micros with how processed the food is and how the ingredient list reads. The Longevity Score is designed for that broader comparison across products.

How Longevity differs from Food Integrity

Food Integrity is the focused analysis of processing, ingredients, additives, purity, and transparency. Longevity is the broader analysis of nutritional composition, metabolic and dietary characteristics, processing, and ingredient quality. A strong nutritional profile may still deserve closer Food Integrity review when additives, oils, sweeteners, or processing level raise questions the nutrient panel does not answer on its own.

Why the analyses overlap—and why to review both

The overlap is intentional. Food Integrity–related characteristics contribute to Longevity, while Food Integrity remains separately useful for deeper formulation detail. The two views are meant to complement each other, not cancel each other out. Some people reasonably prioritize one analysis based on their goals; reviewing both can reveal tradeoffs that one score alone may not show.

Common questions about this product

Is Nutter Butter Cereal Made With Real Peanut Butter highly processed?

Food Integrity lists processing level as Ultra-processed. That reflects formulation and processing signals from the ingredient analysis — not a medical or regulatory classification.

How much fiber is in one serving?

Nutter Butter Cereal Made With Real Peanut Butter shows about 0.98g of fiber per labeled serving in the Longevity nutrition facts.

Does it contain added sugar?

Nutter Butter Cereal Made With Real Peanut Butter: 16g added sugar per serving; sweetener signals include sugar, dextrose. Confirm the current package Nutrition Facts and ingredient list.

What helped the Longevity Score?

Key positives called out in the analysis include: Contains real peanuts as a flavor component; Modest protein per serving; Fortified with vitamins and minerals.

What prevented a perfect Longevity Score?

Key concerns noted include: Sugar and dextrose are prominent ingredients; Artificial colors Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6; Hydrogenated vegetable oil and BHT preservative.

Who might evaluate this product differently?

People prioritizing different goals (for example lower carbs, higher protein, or minimally processed eating) may weigh the same breakfast & cereal differently. Use the goal preview on this page, then personalize in KarbCoach for your priorities.

Other published analyses in Breakfast & Cereal, selected from the same Healthy Food Guide catalog.

Source data and Healthy Food Guide analysis

  1. Public label databases (including USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts) — Possible sources for package ingredients and nutrition.
  2. Healthy Food Guide analysis (Longevity and Food Integrity) — Independent Longevity and Food Integrity scorecards.
  3. How the Longevity Score is calculated
  4. How the Food Integrity Score is calculated
  5. Scoring models: KarbCoach Longevity and Food Integrity.
  6. Independent analysis. No manufacturer affiliation.
  7. Formulations can vary by region, size, and packaging. Check the package label for ingredients, allergens, and nutrition. Not medical advice — do not use this site or the KarbCoach mobile app for allergy or health decisions. Full sources and safety details.
Label accuracy and safety information

Formulations can vary by region, size, and packaging. Check the package label for ingredients, allergens, and nutrition. Not medical advice — do not use this site or the KarbCoach mobile app for allergy or health decisions.

Sources, citations & safety

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