sweet cream butter

Unsalted dairy spread

Sweet cream butter is butter made from fresh cream rather than cultured or fermented cream.

It's the standard butter in American kitchens, with a mild, clean dairy flavor compared to the tangier taste of European-style cultured butter.

Most butter labeled simply "butter" in U.S. grocery stores is sweet cream butter, available salted or unsalted.

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butter production method

sweet cream buttercultured butter

Butter from soured cream

fat type/source

sweet cream buttermargarine

Vegetable oil spread

vegan butter · lard · coconut oil · olive oil · ghee

salted vs. unsalted

sweet cream buttersalted butter

Dairy fat with sodium

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