Butter

97Clean

Ingredients · 4

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Common questions

Is Butter healthy?

Butter scores 97/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Butter?

Butter lists 4 ingredients, starting with Pasteurized Cream, Skimmed Milk, Cultures and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Butter contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Butter’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Butter?

Butter is NOVA group 2: processed culinary ingredients. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Butter compare to other butter & cream?

At 97/100 Butter sits in our top band, among the better butter & cream we have scored. A higher-scoring option in butter & cream is Organic Valley Organic Grassmilk Half & Half at 100/100.

Is Butter organic?

Butter is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.