When it comes to packaged food in America, you'd be surprised by just how many fillers and toxic ingredients find their way onto our shelves and into our pantries. Companies use these ingredients to increase their profits, regardless of their impact on your health. In many ways, Big Spoon Roasters was born from a desire to counter this sweeping mindset that our co-founders Mark and Megan Overbay saw taking over the market.
We do things differently here. Handcrafted. Intentional. Small Batch. Our ingredients are selected for not only their quality and safety, but equally for their nutritional profile and taste as well. We set the highest possible standard for good food made without compromise.
While we could never create a fully exhaustive list of everything we refuse to put in our handcrafted nut butters and bars, we thought it would be fun (and helpful) for you to see just how many common fillers and ingredients we actively avoid.
With that in mind, here is our non-exhaustive "Nope List" of ingredients you will never find in our foods:
2,4,5-TRIHYDROXYBUTYROPHENONE (THBP) • ACESULFAME-POTASSIUM (ACESULFAME-K) • ACETOIN (SYNTHETIC) • ACETONE PEROXIDES • ACETYLATED ESTERS OF MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES • ACTIVATED CHARCOAL • ADVANTAME • ALUMINUM AMMONIUM SULFATE • ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE • ALUMINUM STARCH OCTENYLSUCCINATE • ALUMINUM SULFATE • AMMONIUM ALUM • AMMONIUM CHLORIDE • AMMONIUM SACCHARIN • AMMONIUM SULFATE • APRICOT KERNEL/EXTRACT • ARTIFICIAL COLORS • ARTIFICIAL FATS • ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS • ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVES • ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS • ASPARTAME • AZO DYES • AZODICARBONAMIDE • BACILLUS SUBTILIS DE111 • BACTERIOPHAGE PREPARATION • BENTONITE • BENZOATES IN FOOD • BENZOIC ACID • BENZOPHENONE • BENZOYL PEROXIDE • BENZYL ALCOHOL • BETA-CYCLODEXTRIN • BHA (BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE) • BHT (BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE) • BLEACHED FLOUR • BROMATED FLOUR • BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL (BVO) • BST (BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN) • BURNT ALUM • BUTANE GLYCOL • BUTYLPARABEN • CAFFEINE, EXTENDED RELEASE • CALCIUM BENZOATE • CALCIUM BROMATE • CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA • CALCIUM PEROXIDE • CALCIUM PROPIONATE • CALCIUM SACCHARIN • CALCIUM SORBATE • CALCIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE • CANTHAXANTHIN • CAPRENIN • CAPROCAPRYLOBEHENIN • CARMINE (COCHINEAL) • CERTIFIED COLORS • CHARCOAL POWDER • CITRUS RED NO. 2 • COCHINEAL • COTTON SEED OIL • CYCLAMATES • DATEM • DIACETYL TARTARIC AND FATTY ACID ESTERS (DATEM) OF MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES • DIMETHYL SILICONE • DIMETHLPOLYSILOXANE • DIOCTYL SODIUM SULFOSUCCINATE (DDS) • DISODIUM 5’-RIBONUCLEOTIDES • DISODIUM CALCIUM EDTA • DISODIUM DIHYDROGEN EDTA • DISODIUM EDTA • DISODIUM GUANYLATE • DISODIUM INOSINATE • DL-ALPHA-TOCOPHERYL ACETATE • DODECYL GALLATE • EDTA • ERYTHROSINE • ETHYL ACRYLATE (SYNTHETIC) • ETHYL VANILLIN • ETHYLENE GLYCOL • ETHYLENE OXIDE • ETHYLENEDIAMINE TETRAACETIC ACID EDTA • ETHYOCYQUIN/ETHOXYQUIN • EUGENYL METHYL ETHER (SYNTHETIC) • FD&C COLORS, ALL TYPES • FLAVORS • GARDENIA BLUE • GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOS) • GLUCOSE-FRUCTOSE SYRUP • GMP (DISODIUM GUANYLATE) • GOLD LEAF • HEPTYLPARABEN • HEXA-, HECTA, AND HEPTA-ESTERS OF SUCROSE • HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP (HFCS) • HJIJIKI • HYDROGENATED OIL OR FAT (ARTIFICIAL TRANS FATS) • HYDROGENATED STARCH HYDROLYSATE • IMP (DISODIUM INOSINATE) • INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE • INSECT FLOUR • IRON OXIDE • IRRADIATED FOODS • ISOGLUCOSE • KAVA/KAVA KAVA • LACTIC ACID ESTERS OF MONOGLYCERIDES • LACTYLATED ESTERS OF MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES • LEAD SOLDERED CANS • MA HUANG • MARGARINE • METHYL SILICONE • METHYLPARABEN • METHYLENE CHLORIDE • MICROPARTICULARIZED WHEY PROTEIN (DERIVED FAT SUBSTITUTE) • MONOAMMONIUM GLUTAMATE • MONOPOTASSIUM GLUTAMATE • MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG) • MYRCENE (SYNTHETIC) • NATAMYCIN-CHEESE SLICES, CRUMBLES, SHREDS• NATURAL FLAVORS • NEOTAME • NITRATES/NITRITES • OCTYL GALLATE • OIL, SOLVENT EXTRACTED • OLESTRA • ORANGE B • OXYSTEARIN • PALM OIL • PALM KERNEL OIL • PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OIL • PLANT STEROLS • POLYDEXTROSE • POLYSORBATE 60 • POLYSORBATE 65 • POLYSORBATE 80 • POTASSIUM ALUM • POTASSIUM BENZOATE • POTASSIUM BISULFITE • POTASSIUM BROMATE • POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE • POTASSIUM METABISULFITE (MAY BE OK IN WINE, MEAD, CIDER) • POTASSIUM NITRATE • POTASSIUM NITRITE • POTASSIUM PROPIONATE • POTASSIUM SORBATE • PROPANE-1,2-DIOL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS • PROPIONATES • PROPIONIC ACID • PROPYL GALLATE • PROPYLENE GLYCOL • PROPYLENE OXIDE (PPO) • PROPYLPARABEN • PULEGONE (SYNTHETIC) • PYRIDINE (SYNTHETIC) • RACTOPAMINE • RBGH • REFINED SUGARS • SACCHARIN • SACCHARIN SODIUM SALT • SALATRIM (SHORT AND LONG CHAIN ACYL TRIGLYCERIDE MOLECULE) • SHARK CARTILAGE • SMOKE FLAVOR (SYNTHETIC) • SODIUM ACID SULFATE • SODIUM ALUM • SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE • SODIUM ALUMINUM SULFATE • SODIUM BENZOATE • SODIUM BISULFITE • SODIUM CYCLAMATE • SODIUM DIACETATE • SODIUM ERYTHORBATE • SODIUM GLUTAMATE • SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE • SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE • SODIUM METABISULFITE-FOOD ADDITIVE • SODIUM NITRATE • SODIUM NITRITE • SODIUM PROPIONATE • SODIUM SACCHARIN • SODIUM SORBATE • SODIUM SILCOALUMINATE • SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE • SODIUM STEAROYL-2-LACTYLATE • SODIUM SULFITE • SODIUM THIOSULFATE • SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE • SOLVENT EXTRACTED OILS • SORBIC ACID • STANNOUS CHLORIDE • SUCCISTEARIN • SUCRALOSE • SUCROGLYCERIDES • SUCROSE ACETATE ISOBUTYRATE • SUCROSE ESTER • SUCROSE POLYESTER • SUGAR ALCOHOLS • SULFITES (MAY BE OK IN WINE, MEAD, CIDER) • SULFUR DIOXIDE • TBHQ (TERTIARY BUTYLHYDROQUINONE) • TETRASODIUM EDTA • THIODIPROPIONIC ACID • TOLUENE • TONKA BEAN/ EXTRACT • TRANSFATS • TRANSGLUTAMINASE • VANILLIN (SYNTHETIC)
Ok, enough negativity... Let's say YES to real food made with ingredients you can trust.