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Cultured Butter

Cultured butter is butter made from cream fermented with bacterial cultures before churning, giving it a tangy flavor and richer aroma than sweet cream butter. It is a dairy fat used in cooking, baking, and spreading.

Beneficial properties

source of milk fat contains fat-soluble vitamins rich flavor for cooking low in carbohydrates

Nutritional highlights

Cultured butter is primarily composed of fat and provides saturated fat, small amounts of vitamin A, and sometimes modest amounts of vitamin K2 depending on production methods.

Caution. Contains milk and is not suitable for people with milk allergy; it may also be poorly tolerated by some people with lactose intolerance, though butter is generally low in lactose.