Negative electrode for batteries, battery, and method for producing battery

A negative electrode, for a battery using an alkaline aqueous solution as an electrolytic solution, including metal as a negative active material, the negative electrode comprising

• an active material layer including an additive and active material particles including a zinc-containing compound,
• the additive comprising particles with an average particle size larger than an average particle size of the active material particles, and
• the additive further comprising at least one selected from a group consisting of a compound including an element in a second family of a periodic table among elements acting as basic oxides and another compound including an element in a thirteenth family of the periodic table among elements acting as amphoteric oxides, wherein
• the additive contains ranges from 0.01 parts by mass to 2.8 parts by mass inclusive per 100 parts by mass of the active material particles,
• a thickness of the negative electrode for the battery is 500 μm to 10 mm,
• the additive further comprises:
• a first additive;
• and a second additive comprising particles with an average particle size smaller than an average particle size of particles of the first additive,
• the second additive is more dissolvable in the alkaline aqueous solution than the first additive,
• the first additive is aluminum oxide, and
• the second additive is calcium oxide.