Shedd's Buttermatch Whipped Vegetable Oil Spread — DUMP

Munch or Dump rates Shedd's Buttermatch Whipped Vegetable Oil Spread by Lipton DUMP — score 20/90.

A lab-built butter imitation: refined soybean and palm oils whipped together with emulsifiers, artificial flavor, and beta-carotene dye to fake the look and taste of butter.

Why this verdict

• Refined soybean, palm, and palm kernel oils are the entire base — industrial fats, not food
• Mono- and diglycerides plus soy lecithin: stacked emulsifiers that mark it as ultra-processed
• Artificial flavors and beta-carotene dye exist only to fake butter it isn't
• Potassium sorbate preservative — this is a chemistry-built spread, NOVA group 4

Ingredients (12)

• Vegetable oil blend (soybean, palm, palm kernel) (moderate) — Refined oils; palm and palm kernel are high in saturated fat and heavily processed.
• Water (safe) — First ingredient by weight; this pudding is mostly water, not milk.
• BUTTERMILK (safe) — A small amount of real dairy, mostly for flavor and the 'butter' association.
• Salt (moderate) — Ready meals tend to run salt-heavy; watch the sodium.
• Butter (cream, salt) (moderate) — A token amount of real butter so the label can claim butter taste.
• Vegetable mono and diglycerides (moderate) — Emulsifier that holds the reconstituted texture together; can hide trans fats.
• Natural and Artificial Flavors (moderate) — Lab-made flavor compounds; the 'artificial' half adds nothing your body needs.
• Soy Lecithin (moderate) — Common emulsifier in the brownie; mild but adds to the additive pile.
• Potassium Sorbate (moderate) — Synthetic preservative, generally tolerated but a sign of a heavily preserved product.
• citric acid (safe) — Common acidulant for tartness; harmless in this amount but can be rough on tooth enamel.
• Vitamin A palmitate (safe) — Added vitamin A.
• beta carotene color (moderate) — Added purely to dye the spread butter-yellow; cosmetic, not nutritional.