# Alter Eco Foods Brown Butter — TilliT proof check

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## Product

- **Brand:** Alter Eco Foods
- **Product:** Brown Butter
- **GTIN:** 817670010495
- **Sold at:** alterecofoods.com
- **Product page:** https://www.alterecofoods.com/products/dark-brown-butter
- **Assessment ID:** pta_43a51728231e4c1d9b5e2bac225fc0c7
- **Assessed:** 2026-10-12
- **Last reviewed:** n/a
- **Review mode:** Check complete · human review pending
- **Methodology version:** 2026.09.1
- **Canonical page:** https://tillit.world/p/pta_43a51728231e4c1d9b5e2bac225fc0c7

## Overall (safe to quote)

Brown Butter by Alter Eco Foods — public trust assessment of 4 observed badge claim(s): Organic: Certification Match Found; Non-GMO: Limited Public Support; Gluten-Free: Certification Match Found; Fair Trade: Limited Public Support. These statuses reflect publicly available evidence only, not a review of the seller's own certificates or documents.

## Claims checked

### Gluten-Free

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 76/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Product tag: "Gluten-Free"”
- **Certifier named:** Gluten-Free Food Program (GFFP)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a "Gluten-Free" tag, and the Gluten-Free Food Program (GFFP) directory lists brand Alter Eco Foods with a product listing named "Brown Butter 70%", an exact name match for this product. A search of the public GFCO certified products page did not retrieve a match for Alter Eco Foods, and the brand's help/about page did not mention gluten-free claims; this public evidence is brand- and product-level and does not cover the exact package or lot in hand.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-08
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Gluten-Free Food Program (GFFP) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.

### Organic

- **Status:** Certification Match Found (`public_certification_match_found`)
- **Evidence strength:** 76/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “eco climate justice a set of icons: organic, non-g.m.o.'s, no gluten ingredients, no soy ingredients”
- **Certifier named:** Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays an organic claim, and the USDA Organic Integrity Database lists Alter Eco Foods, LLC as certified by Quality Assurance International, with a product listing matching "Chocolate - Brown Butter 70%". This is a public certification signal at the brand and product-listing level; no batch-level certificate or document for the exact package or lot was retrieved. The claim's wording corresponds to the USDA National Organic Program's 'organic' labeling category, which requires at least 95% organic content and may display the official organic seal.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-12-04
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Quality Assurance International (via USDA Organic Integrity Database) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.

### Non-GMO

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 25/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “climate justice a set of icons: organic, non-g.m.o.'s, no gluten ingredients, no soy ingredients, no”
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Non-GMO claim, and public evidence found is brand-level, company-level, and product-level, with one independent organisation publishing evidence relevant to this claim specific to this exact product. Batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment, and no independent certifier record was found backing this claim. The ingredient list includes milk and butter, which may warrant further verification for a Non-GMO claim.
- **Re-verification due:** 2026-11-11
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 6 checks.
- **Limitation:** This product's organic certification is independently confirmed, and USDA / EU / Canada organic rules prohibit GMOs — so the organic certification already rules out GMO ingredients, even though a separate Non-GMO Project record was not found.

### Fair Trade

- **Status:** Limited Public Support (`public_corroboration_weak`)
- **Evidence strength:** 55/100
- **Claim observed on the page:** “Salted Brown Butter Chocolate | 70% Cacao, Organic, Fair Trade | Alter Eco Back to top The ZIP Code you entered was”
- **Certifier named:** Fair for Life (Ecocert)
- **Safe citation wording:** The product page displays a Fair Trade claim, and a certifier directory lists the company behind the brand as a certified partner at the company level, not for this specific product. Public evidence found is company-level rather than product-level, and batch-specific public evidence was not retrieved in this assessment. Whether the claim applies to the whole product or to specific ingredients such as cocoa or cane sugar was not determined from the sources reviewed.
- **Re-verification due:** 2027-10-09
- **Limitation:** Not TilliT verified; assessment uses public sources only.
- **Limitation:** Evidence plan executed: 7 checks.
- **Limitation:** Generic certifier-directory search skipped: a structured Fair for Life (Ecocert) match already resolved this badge with higher confidence than a text-directory probe could add.

## Not claimed on this page

Allergen-Free, Vegan.

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_Generated 2026-10-13T01:52:04+00:00 from assessment pta_43a51728231e4c1d9b5e2bac225fc0c7._