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Sweet cream butter on a food label: it contains milk

Sweet cream 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 208 products, most often in fats and spreads.

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Sweet cream butter=milk

Does sweet cream butter contain an allergen?

Yes. Sweet cream 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 sweet cream butter vegan?

No. Sweet cream 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 sweet cream butter have on a label?

On European labels it is “Beurre de crème pasteurisée” in French, “Süßrahmbutter” in German and “Burro di panna dolce” in Italian. The other 2 languages are listed below.

French
Beurre de crème pasteurisée
German
Süßrahmbutter, Süßrahm-Butter
Italian
Burro di panna dolce
Finnish
imelä voi
Croatian
maslac od slatkog vrhnja

Which foods contain sweet cream butter?

Open Food Facts lists sweet cream butter in the ingredients of 208 products, most often fats and spreads, biscuits and cakes and ready meals. Most of them are sold in the United States, Germany and France.

  • Fats and spreads45
  • Biscuits and cakes27
  • Ready meals22
  • Dressings and sauces7
  • Sweets6
  • Bread3

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 148 · Germany 49 · France 12 · Switzerland 7.

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

What kind of ingredient is sweet cream butter?

Sweet cream butter is a kind of 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: Sweet cream 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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