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Butter flavouring on a food label: it may contain milk

Butter flavouring is a kind of flavouring. It may be made from milk. Whether it is vegan depends on how it was made. Open Food Facts finds it in 1,006 products, most often in biscuits and cakes.

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Does butter flavouring contain an allergen?

Butter flavouring may be made from milk or only taste of it. If it is made from it, the label must say so wherever the allergen lists apply.

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Is butter flavouring vegan?

It depends on the make. Some kinds of butter flavouring are made with an animal product and a label rarely says which, so a vegan profile gets Heads up. Whether it is vegetarian depends on the make too.

VeganHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product, and a label rarely says which.
VegetarianHeads upSome kinds are made with an animal product vegetarians avoid, and a label rarely says which.
Milk allergyHeads upIt may be made from milk.

A pack can differ from the usual recipe: the app reads the label in your hand.

What other names does butter flavouring have on a label?

On European labels it is “arôme de beurre” in French, “butteraroma” in German and “aroma de mantequilla” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

French
arôme de beurre
German
butteraroma, butter-aroma
Spanish
aroma de mantequilla
Italian
aroma di burro
Polish
aromat maślany, aromat masła
Swedish
smörarom
Finnish
voiaromi
Croatian
aroma-maslaca

Which foods contain butter flavouring?

Open Food Facts lists butter flavouring in the ingredients of 1,006 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and bread. Most of them are sold in the United States, France and Belgium.

  • Biscuits and cakes227
  • Ready meals95
  • Bread29
  • Dressings and sauces27
  • Fish and seafood23
  • Pizzas, pies and quiches22

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 618 · France 140 · Belgium 132 · Bulgaria 20.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where butter flavouring turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is butter flavouring?

Butter flavouring is a kind of flavouring.

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Sources

An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.

  1. Open Food Facts: Butter flavouring
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL

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