Smart balance light

How it scored 10 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 18 listed

• 1 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 2 Vegetable Oil Blend
  An umbrella label for a blend of two or more refined plant-derived oils (commonly soybean, canola, palm, sunflower, corn, cottonseed). Speci…
  Low
• 3 Natural And Artificial Flavouring
  A blanket label for proprietary flavor mixtures combining naturally derived flavor constituents (essential oils, extracts, distillates) with…
  Low
• 4 Retinyl Palmitate
  Ester of retinol (vitamin A) and palmitic acid; preformed vitamin A.
  Low
• 5 Beta-Carotene
  Beta-carotene, an orange-yellow carotenoid pigment that is a vitamin A precursor, sourced from plants (carrots, palm fruit, algae) or made s…
  Low
• 6 vegetable monoglycerides and sorbitan ester of fatty acids —
• 7 Potassium Sorbate
  Potassium salt of sorbic acid, a short-chain unsaturated fatty acid.
  Low
• 8 Lactic Acid
  Organic acid (E270) naturally produced by lactic acid bacteria during fermentation; also produced industrially.
  Low
• 9 Tertiary-Butylhydroquinone (Tbhq)
  Synthetic phenolic antioxidant tert-butylhydroquinone, used to retard oxidation of fats and oils.
  High
• 10 Calcium Disodium Ethylenediaminetetraacetate
  Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (calcium disodium EDTA), a chelating agent that binds metal ions.
  Moderate
• 11 Palm
  Generic palm-derived ingredient — typically refers to palm oil or palm fat from Elaeis guineensis fruit.
  Moderate
• 12 Canola
  Canola (Brassica napus) — typically refers to canola oil, a low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil.
  Low
• 13 Flax Seed
  Seed of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum), also known as linseed.
  Safe
• 14 Olive Oil
  Oil pressed from olives (Olea europaea).
  Safe
• 15 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 16 Colour
  Generic ingredient term covering any of dozens of permitted colour additives — synthetic dyes (e.g. tartrazine E102, allura red E129, brilli…
  Low
• 17 Emulsifier
  Generic umbrella term for unspecified emulsifier additive(s).
  Low
• 18 Preservative
  Generic umbrella term for unspecified preservative additive(s).
  Low