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Pasteurized butter on a food label: it contains milk

Pasteurized 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 122 products, most often in fats and spreads.

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Pasteurized butter=milk

Does pasteurized butter contain an allergen?

Yes. Pasteurized butter contains milk: labels in the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf must declare it.

AllergenUSUK and EuropeGulf
MilkRequiredRequiredLactose includedRequiredLactose included

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Is pasteurized butter vegan?

No. Pasteurized butter is not vegan: it is made from milk. It is vegetarian.

VeganNot for youNot vegan: it is made from milk.
VegetarianFits youNot meat or fish.
Milk allergyNot for youIt contains milk.

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What other names does pasteurized butter have on a label?

In English pasteurized butter can also read “pasteurised butter”. On European labels it is “beurre pasteurisé” in French, “pasteurisierter Butter” in German and “mantequilla pasteurizada” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.

In Englishpasteurised butter
French
beurre pasteurisé
German
pasteurisierter Butter
Spanish
mantequilla pasteurizada
Italian
burro pastorizzato
Dutch
gepasteuriseerde boter
Finnish
pastöroitu voi
Hungarian
pasztőrözött vaj, pasztörizált vaj
Croatian
pasterizirani maslac

Which foods contain pasteurized butter?

Open Food Facts lists pasteurized butter or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 122 products, most often fats and spreads, ready meals and biscuits and cakes. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and Switzerland.

  • Fats and spreads59
  • Ready meals11
  • Biscuits and cakes8
  • Pasta, rice and flour8
  • Sandwiches4
  • Savoury snacks3

Products with it, by country of sale: France 109 · United States 10 · Switzerland 2 · Bulgaria 1.

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

What kind of ingredient is pasteurized butter?

Pasteurized butter is a kind of butter.

Kinds of pasteurized butterOrganic pasteurized butter

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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: Pasteurized butter
  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
  4. European Union: Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, Annex II
  5. UK Food Standards Agency: Allergen guidance for food businesses (the 14 allergens)
  6. US FDA: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergen Labeling, Edition 5 (January 2025)

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