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Lightly salted butter on a food label: it contains milk
Lightly salted butter is a kind of butter. It contains milk, so the allergen labelling rules apply. It is vegetarian but not vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 265 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 738 kcal and 0.7 g protein.
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Does lightly salted butter contain an allergen?
Yes. Lightly salted butter contains milk: labels in the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it.
| Allergen | US | UK and Europe | Gulf |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milk | Required | RequiredLactose included | RequiredLactose included |
Is lightly salted butter vegan?
No. Lightly salted butter is not vegan: it is made from milk. It is vegetarian.
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What other names does lightly salted butter have on a label?
On European labels it is “beurre demi-sel” in French, “burro leggermente salato” in Italian and “halfgezouten boter” in Dutch. The other 3 languages are listed below.
- French
- beurre demi-sel
- Italian
- burro leggermente salato
- Dutch
- halfgezouten boter
- Finnish
- vähäsuolainen voi
- Hungarian
- félig sózott vaj, félsós vaj
- Croatian
- lagano posoljeni maslac
Which foods contain lightly salted butter?
Open Food Facts lists lightly salted butter in the ingredients of 265 products, most often biscuits and cakes, ready meals and sweets. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Italy.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 257 · United States 6 · Italy 4 · Germany 3.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where lightly salted butter turns up, not how much of the market it is.
How many calories are in lightly salted butter?
Lightly salted butter has about 738 kcal per 100 g, with 0.7 g protein, 0.6 g carbohydrate and 81 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Butter, 80% fat, lightly salted” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.
Also per 100 g: sugars 0.4 g, saturated fat 55 g, fibre 0 g, salt 1.9 g, energy 3,030 kJ.
ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 16402. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.
What kind of ingredient is lightly salted butter?
Lightly salted butter is a kind of butter.
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- Open Food Facts: Lightly salted butter
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
- ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
- European Union: Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, Annex II
- UK Food Standards Agency: Allergen guidance for food businesses (the 14 allergens)
- US FDA: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergen Labeling, Edition 5 (January 2025)
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