sweet butter

Sodium-free dairy spread

Sweet butter is unsalted butter, distinguished from salted butter rather than from anything sour.

The term appears mainly in recipes and culinary contexts where precise salt control matters: The recipe calls for sweet butter.

In everyday shopping, most people simply say "unsalted butter."

Related

neutral · curds · French cuisine · delicate · salt-free · heavy cream · churning · room temperature · spread · ghee · pastry · pound cake · rich · fermentation · lamination · puff pastry · croissant · cake

Opposites
salt content

sweet buttersalted butter

Dairy fat with sodium

compound butter

fermentation/culture

sweet buttercultured butter

Butter from soured cream

Family

sweet, butter, sweetly, sweetness, sweeten, sweetened, sweetening, sweetener, sweeteners

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G