Ingredient dictionary

Salted butter on a food label: it contains milk

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 2,024 products, most often in biscuits and cakes. Per 100 g: about 732 kcal and 0.5 g protein.

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Does salted butter contain an allergen?

Yes. Salted 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 salted butter vegan?

No. Salted 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 salted butter have on a label?

On European labels it is “beurre salé” in French, “gesalzene Butter” in German and “mantequilla salada” in Spanish. The other 7 languages are listed below.

French
beurre salé
German
gesalzene Butter, gesalzenes Butter
Spanish
mantequilla salada, Mantequilla con sal
Italian
Burro salato
Dutch
gezouten boter
Portuguese
manteiga com sal
Danish
saltet smør
Finnish
suolattu voi, voimakassuolainen voi
Hungarian
sózott vaj, sós vaj
Croatian
posoljeni maslac

Which foods contain salted butter?

Open Food Facts lists salted butter or a more specific kind of it in the ingredients of 2,024 products, most often biscuits and cakes, sweets and ice cream. Most of them are sold in France, the United States and the United Kingdom.

  • Biscuits and cakes551
  • Sweets252
  • Ice cream191
  • Ready meals80
  • Dairy desserts72
  • Chocolate46

Products with it, by country of sale: France 909 · United States 549 · United Kingdom 399 · Germany 61.

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

How many calories are in salted butter?

Salted butter has about 732 kcal per 100 g, with 0.5 g protein, 0.7 g carbohydrate and 81 g fat. The figures are for the entry “Butter, 80% fat, salted” in CIQUAL, the French food composition table published by ANSES.

732kcal per 100 g
0.5g protein
0.7g carbohydrate
81g fat

Also per 100 g: sugars 0 g, saturated fat 53 g, fibre 0 g, salt 2.52 g, energy 3,010 kJ.

ANSES CIQUAL table, CALNUT 2020 edition, food code 16403. A product’s own nutrition panel is the figure to log.

What kind of ingredient is salted butter?

Salted butter is a kind of butter.

Kinds of salted butterWhipped butter whipped with salt

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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: Salted 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. ANSES: CIQUAL French food composition table (CALNUT 2020 edition), Licence Ouverte 2.0
  5. European Union: Regulation 1169/2011 on food information to consumers, Annex II
  6. UK Food Standards Agency: Allergen guidance for food businesses (the 14 allergens)
  7. US FDA: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergen Labeling, Edition 5 (January 2025)

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