All-Vegetable Shortening, All-Vegetable

Why Does This Score Highly Processed?

In our analysis, All-Vegetable Shortening, All-Vegetable scores Highly Processed. That classification is shaped by ingredients commonly associated with ultra-processed foods:

• Modified Fats (Fully Hydrogenated Palm Oil): Hydrogenation and modification are UPF markers.
• Emulsifiers (Mono And Diglycerides): Industrial emulsifiers indicate UPF.

Within Cream & Butter, this product is more processed than about 69% of the 3,591 products we've analyzed.

Processing classification reflects ingredient and additive analysis, not a judgment of any product's safety, quality, or healthfulness.

What These Ingredients Tell Us

We group All-Vegetable Shortening, All-Vegetable's ingredients into ingredient categories and note how each relates to food processing. The notes below describe the category, not this specific product's formulation.

Vegetable OilsProcessing indicator

In this product: Soybean Oil, Palm Oil.

Natural oils are minimally processed, hydrogenated oils indicate UPF.

Food AcidsProcessing indicator

In this product: Tbhq And Citric Acid.

Common in both traditional and industrial foods.