Sweet Cream Butter

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Sweet Cream Butter

Sweet cream butter is churned from fresh, uncultured cream—the everyday salted or unsalted stick of global supermarkets. Flavour is clean and milky rather than tangy; performance in pastry depends on fat percentage, water content, and temperature. Cream soft butter for cakes; keep cold for lamination. European-style sweet cream butters often run higher fat than basic US sticks. Clarifying removes milk solids for high-heat cooking.

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Characteristics

Preparations

ChilledClarifiedCreamedMeltedSoftened

Traits

CleanCreamyMildSpreadable When SoftTable ButterUncultured Cream

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Nutrition

Typical values per 100 g edible portion. Nutrient names open the reference page.

Nutrition Facts

Per 100 g edible portion

Calories 733

Amount per 100 g

  • Total Fat 81 g
  • Saturated Fat 57.5 g
  • Trans Fat 0.3 g
  • Monounsaturated Fat 20.9 g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat 2.62 g
  • Cholesterol 28.7 mg
  • Sodium 79.3 mg
  • Salt 0.21 g
  • Total Carbohydrate 0.1 g
  • Dietary Fibre 0 g
  • Total Sugars 0 g
  • Complex / starch 0 g
  • Protein 0.9 g
  • Water 16 g

Milk is an emulsion of water, lactose, protein, and milk fat.

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United States

USDA

History

Industrial sweet cream butter churning standardised mild table butter.

US

Salted sweet cream sticks became the American household default.

Refrigerated sweet cream butter dominated global retail butter aisles.

Premium high-fat sweet cream butters competed with cultured European styles.

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