Pasteurized butter: allergens and what’s inside

Which allergens are in pasteurized butter?

Of 159 packs of pasteurized butter whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 100% list milk. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

Read the milk guide

What is pasteurized butter usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of pasteurized butter list, with the share of packs that list each: cream (64%), lactic ferments (50%), butter (47%) and salt (38%).

• Cream64%
• Lactic ferments50%
• Butter47%
• Salt38%

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: France 174 · Switzerland 19 · Belgium 10 · Germany 8.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for pasteurized butter.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is pasteurized butter?

In the Open Food Facts categories, pasteurized butter is a kind of butter.

What else is pasteurized butter called?

French

Beurres pasteurisés

German

Pasteurizierte Butter

Spanish

Mantequilla pasteurizada

Italian

Burro pastorizzato

Dutch

Gepasteuriseerde roomboters

Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

1. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
2. Open Food Facts: categories and ingredients taxonomies (names, kinds, allergens), ODbL
3. Open Food Facts: Pasteurized butter

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