Swap guide: Nut butters

Nut butters are made from tree nuts and peanuts. Here is what we could source, and the certified nut butters on ByeGly.

Why nut butters come up

• Almond orchards. UC IPM's almond pest management guidelines list glyphosate among herbicides for weed control in almond orchards. They say it "can be applied prior to planting, within or between tree rows, with shielded or wiper equipment, or as directed spot sprays," and to avoid contact with "green bark, stems, foliage or fruit."¹ This is weed control on the orchard floor, not a pre-harvest application to the nuts.
• We haven't found a source on pre-harvest glyphosate use for peanuts or other nuts, so we don't make that claim here.

None of this tells you how a particular product was grown or made. That is what certifications are for. For what regulators have said about glyphosate, see Where agencies stand.

What to look for

• Glyphosate Residue Free or BioChecked Non-Glyphosate on the package: a lab did not detect glyphosate in the product at about 0.01 ppm. That is a detection limit, not zero, and it is not a health claim.
• USDA Certified Organic: glyphosate may not be used in organic crop production. It is not a residue test.
• Check the exact product. A certification covers the listed product, not everything a brand makes.

See How to read a label, Certifications explained and How we verify.

Certified nut butters on ByeGly

Our nut butter list is thin: one brand, almond butters only. We haven't verified any certified peanut butter yet.

• Barney Butter (Glyphosate Residue Free): Almond Butter Bare Crunchy; Almond Butter Bare Smooth; Almond Butter Chocolate; Almond Butter Crunchy; Almond Butter Smooth; Chocolate Powdered Almond Butter; Unsweetened Powdered Almond Butter. Where to buy: store locator; retailers named on the brand's site: Amazon.

Only the exact products listed on ByeGly are certified as far as we can confirm. Other products from the same brand are not on our list unless they appear there.

Each listing on ByeGly shows the certification, a Source link to the brand page where we saw it, the date we last checked it, and a Buy link to the brand's own site. Where the brand's site has a store locator or names retailers, we show it next to the brand.

Related

• Almond flour and almond meal: see the flour guide.

Don't see what you buy? If it isn't listed, it's not on our list yet. Use Request a product to ask us to look at it. We add a listing only if we can confirm a named certification on the brand's own public site.

Sources

Product facts come from the live ByeGly product database (Supabase project byegly, public listings, read November 10, 2026). Product and certification names are shown as the brand writes them; where-to-buy details come from the brand's own site as recorded in that database.