Household Ingredients Compared › Butter (Singapore)

Butter: what's actually in it?

Real butter is cream, churned — plus salt in the salted version, plus a lactic culture in cultured butter. Everything else on the butter shelf is a different product wearing butter's name: spreadable butter (butter blended with rapeseed oil and water so it spreads from the fridge) and butter blends (vegetable oil first, milk fat second). This page keeps those three groups separate, because comparing a blend to a block as if they were the same product is the whole trap.

This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick. It shows the ingredient list as printed and flags salt, culture and vegetable-oil content.

The headline, in 30 seconds

Block butter is 1–3 ingredients. Anchor Unsalted is pasteurised cream + water; Lurpak Unsalted is cream + lactic culture; Elle & Vire and Pepe Saya cultured butters are cream + culture (+ salt if salted).
Salted vs unsalted is exactly one ingredient. Salt. If a salted and an unsalted block from the same brand differ by anything else, that is worth flagging — here, they do not (except SCS, where the lists conflicted — see panel; the 5 Nov 2026 re-audit panelled the SCS Salted list separately, which supports the page-error reading of that conflict).
Spreadable butter is not block butter. Lurpak Spreadable Slightly Salted is only 64% butter, the rest rapeseed oil, water, culture and salt. The Lighter version is lower still in butter share. Spreadability comes from oil and water, not from a different kind of cream.
Butter blends start with vegetable oil. Buttercup Luxury Spread Salted starts with palm oil and palm kernel oil, then milk fat — the reverse order of real butter. It is a blend, and this page files it as one.
Cultured butter is not a flavour. "Cultured" means lactic cultures fermented the cream before churning, giving a tangier taste. Lurpak, Elle & Vire, President and Pepe Saya are cultured; Anchor and SCS (as listed) are not described that way.

At a glance

Product	Group	First ingredient	Salt?	Vegetable oil?	Pack size (as printed)	Country of manufacture (as printed)
Anchor Block — Unsalted	Block butter	Pasteurised cream	No	No	227g	New Zealand
Lurpak Block — Unsalted	Block, cultured	Cream / Butter (milk)	No	No	200g	Denmark
Lurpak Block — Slightly Salted	Block, cultured	Butter (milk)	Yes	No	200g	Denmark
Elle & Vire Roll — Unsalted	Block, cultured	Pasteurised cow's milk cream	No	No	200g	France
Elle & Vire Roll — Salted	Block, cultured	Pasteurised cow's milk cream	Yes, ~2%	No	200g	France
President — Salted	Block, cultured	Pasteurised cream	Yes	No	200g	France
Pepe Saya Cultured — Unsalted (Little Farms)	Block, cultured	Cream (pasteurised cow's milk)	No	No	225g	Australia
Pepe Saya Cultured — Salted (Little Farms)	Block, cultured	Cream (pasteurised cow's milk)	Yes, 1.5%	No	225g	Australia
SCS Pure Creamery — Unsalted	Block	Pasteurised cream (min. 82% milk fat)	No*	No	227g	Australia
Lurpak Spreadable — Slightly Salted	Spreadable	Butter (64%)	Yes	Yes — rapeseed oil	250g	Denmark
Lurpak Spreadable — Slightly Salted (Lighter)	Spreadable, lighter	Butter	Yes	Yes — rapeseed oil	250g	Denmark
Buttercup Luxury Spread — Salted	Butter blend	Palm oil	Yes	Yes — palm + palm kernel oil first	227g	not stated
Anchor Block — Salted	Block butter	Pasteurised cream	Yes	No	250g	New Zealand
SCS Pure Creamery — Salted	Block	Pasteurised cream (min. 80% milk fat)	Yes	No	227g	Australia
President — Unsalted	Block, cultured	Pasteurised cream	No	No	200g	France
Westgold Block — Unsalted	Block butter	Cream (from milk)	No	No	250g	New Zealand
Golden Churn — Unsalted	Block, cultured	Pasteurised cream	No*	No	250g	not stated

* SCS salt position is conflicted — see the SCS panel. Golden Churn unsalted: the secondary list has no salt, but an Open Food Facts SG listing gives a French list including salt — see the Golden Churn panel. Panelled with verbatim lists: 18 products (13 before this re-audit, 5 added 5 November 2026: Anchor Salted, SCS Salted, President Unsalted, Westgold Unsalted, Golden Churn Unsalted). Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale.

Block butter — salted and unsalted

Anchor Pure New Zealand Block Butter — Unsalted

Pack size: 227g · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice): Pasteurised Cream (from Cow's Milk), Water.

Two ingredients, no culture listed, no salt. The FairPrice page text describes the salted Anchor in its marketing copy, but the ingredient section retrieved is for the unsalted block — do not copy the salted description onto this list. Origin: New Zealand. Allergen: milk Unsalted

Lurpak Butter — Unsalted (block)

Pack size: 200g · Made in: Denmark (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice): Cream, Lactic Culture. Brand wording: Butter (Milk), Lactic Culture (Milk). Minimum fat content 82%.

Cultured unsalted butter: the lactic culture ferments the cream, which is what gives Lurpak its described "acidulous" taste. Little Farms' listing for the same product gives "Butter [milk], Lactic culture [milk]" — consistent, and cross-checked. Allergen: milk Cultured Unsalted

Lurpak Butter — Slightly Salted (block)

Pack size: 200g · Made in: Denmark (as printed)

Ingredients (brand): Butter (Milk), Lactic Culture (Milk), Salt. Minimum fat content 80%.

Exactly the unsalted list plus salt — the clean salted/unsalted pair. Open Food Facts for the SG-sold Lurpak salted block gives "Cream, lactic culture, salt (1.2%)". Allergen: milk Cultured Salted

Elle & Vire Gourmet Butter Roll — Unsalted

Pack size: 200g · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow's milk cream, lactic ferments (milk). 82% minimum milk fat.

French cultured butter from Normandy (Condé-sur-Vire). "Lactic ferments" is the same idea as Lurpak's "lactic culture" in different brand wording. Allergen: milk Cultured Unsalted

Elle & Vire Gourmet Butter Roll — Salted

Pack size: 200g · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow's milk cream, lactic ferments, salt (approx. 2%). 80% minimum milk fat.

Same cultured base plus ~2% salt; the fat minimum drops from 82% to 80% because salt displaces fat. A second listing gives "Pasteurized Cream (97%), Non-iodized Salt (2%), Lactic Starters" — consistent. Allergen: milk Cultured Salted ~2%

President Butter — Salted

Pack size: 200g · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients: Pasteurized cream, salt, cultures.

French cultured salted butter, same three-ingredient pattern as Elle & Vire Salted. A secondary guide gives the fuller form "Butter (Milk), Single Cream (made from pasteurised cow's milk), Cultures" — the Open Food Facts list above is the panelled one. Allergen: milk Cultured Salted

SCS Pure Creamery Butter — Unsalted — salt position conflicted

Pack size: 227g · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts, SG product): Pasteurised Cream (Min. 82% milk fat), Lactic Acid, Culture Distillate.

Conflict flagged: SCS's own product page for the unsalted block gives "Pasteurised Cream (Min. 82% milk fat), Water, Salt. Lactic Acid, Starter Culture." — a list that includes salt on an unsalted page. That cannot be the unsalted list as printed; it is most likely a page error or a salted list pasted onto the unsalted page. This page panels the Open Food Facts unsalted list and flags the brand-page list as conflicting. Update 5 November 2026: SCS's own salted-block page gives exactly "Pasteurised Cream (Min. 80% milk fat), Water, Salt" — the same list (with the fat minimum dropped from 82% to 80%, as salt displaces fat) that appeared on its unsalted page — which supports the page-error reading, and that list is now panelled separately as the salted list below. Verify both SG packs before publish. Allergen: milk Unsalted (per OFF list)

Anchor Pure New Zealand Block Butter — Salted

Pack size: 250g · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice ingredient section): Pasteurised Cream (from Cow's Milk), Water, Salt.

The salted pair to the panelled unsalted Anchor: exactly the unsalted list plus salt, as the pattern predicts. Origin: New Zealand. This closes the seen-but-not-verified gap from the first version, where only FairPrice marketing copy described the salted block and the ingredient section retrieved was for the unsalted block. Allergen: milk Salted

SCS Pure Creamery Butter — Salted

Pack size: 227g · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (SCS official site): Pasteurised Cream (Min. 80% milk fat), Water, Salt.

SCS's own salted-block list — three ingredients, no culture listed, no lactic acid. Compare the unsalted panel above: the salted list drops the fat minimum from 82% to 80% (salt displaces fat) and drops the lactic acid / culture distillate wording of the Open Food Facts unsalted list. Whether the unsalted block really contains lactic acid and culture distillate, or whether the brand pages are inconsistent, still needs an SG pack check — the two lists are panelled exactly as their sources give them, not merged. Allergen: milk Salted

President Butter — Unsalted

Pack size: 200g · Made in: France (as printed)

Ingredients (secondary listings — Spoonful, CalorieCounter AU, Milkrun): Pasteurised Cream (from cow's milk), lactic cultures. Minimum fat 82%.

Flag: secondary list, not a retrieved SG pack or FairPrice ingredient section — FairPrice lists President Butter – Unsalted in Singapore, but the ingredient section was not retrieved, so verify on the SG pack before publish. The list is the unsalted pair to the panelled President Salted (cream + salt + cultures): exactly the salted list minus salt, as expected for a cultured butter. Allergen: milk Cultured Unsalted

Westgold Unsalted Butter — Block 250g

Pack size: 250g · Made in: New Zealand (as printed)

Ingredients (Open Food Facts SG listing — stores: NTUC FairPrice, countries: Singapore, barcode 9421016151059, origin New Zealand): Cream (from Milk).

One ingredient. Westgold is a New Zealand brand sold at FairPrice in Singapore; the SG listing gives no salt, no culture, no water — the simplest block-butter list on this page alongside Pic's-style one-ingredient products. Nutrition per 100 g (same SG listing): Energy 3110 kJ (743 kcal), Fat 83.6 g, Saturated fat 54.1 g, Carbohydrates 0.5 g, Sugars 0.5 g, Protein 0.3 g, Sodium 6.9 mg (salt 0.02 g). Allergen: milk Unsalted Origin: New Zealand Via: FairPrice

Golden Churn Unsalted Butter — list conflicted

Pack size: 250g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients (secondary listing, Spoonful): Pasteurised Cream, Lactic Acid, Starter Culture (Min 82% Milk Fat).

Conflict flagged: an Open Food Facts listing that includes Singapore among its countries of sale gives a French ingredient list — "Crème, Eau, Sel" (cream, water, salt) — which reads like the canned salted Golden Churn variant, not an unsalted block, while its category says "unsalted". The two sources cannot both describe the same unsalted product. This page panels the Spoonful list (cream + lactic acid + starter culture, no salt) and flags the Open Food Facts list as conflicting — the SG pack must settle it before publish. Allergen: milk Cultured Unsalted (per Spoonful list)

Little Farms — cultured butter (checked 6 Nov 2026)

Little Farms stocks Australian cultured butter that the big supermarkets do not carry in the same form, plus Lurpak blocks that corroborate the panels above. Nut butters sold at Little Farms under the word "butter" (almond, cashew, pistachio-almond) are not dairy butter and are not panelled here — see the peanut-butter page's approach to nut butters.

Pepe Saya Grass-Fed Cultured Butter — Unsalted, at Little Farms

Pack size: 225g · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Little Farms listing): Cream (from pasteurised cow's milk), Culture. Minimum fat content: 82%.

Australian cultured butter from Country Valley Dairy cream (pasture-fed cows, per the listing). Two ingredients, no salt, no oil. Allergen: milk Cultured Unsalted Via: Little Farms

Pepe Saya Grass-Fed Cultured Butter — Salted, at Little Farms

Pack size: 225g · Made in: Australia (as printed)

Ingredients (Little Farms listing): Cream (from pasteurised cow's milk), Culture, Salt 1.5% (0.75% Olsson's Dairy Salt, 0.75% Olsson's Salt Flakes). Minimum fat content: 82%.

The salted pair to the unsalted above, with the salt split unusually into two salt types — both are salt, and the total is 1.5%. Note the listing's pack-size inconsistency (title 225g, listing text 200g) — pack size to confirm, though it does not affect the ingredient list. Allergen: milk Cultured Salted 1.5% Via: Little Farms

Lurpak Butter — Unsalted / Slightly Salted, at Little Farms (corroboration)

Pack size: 200g (both) · Made in: Denmark (as printed)

Ingredients (Little Farms unsalted listing): Butter [milk], Lactic culture [milk].

Consistent with the FairPrice/brand Lurpak panels above. The Little Farms slightly-salted listing gives the same two lines in the retrieved text with salt truncated — it is not panelled separately here; the FairPrice/brand salted list above stands. Allergen: milk Via: Little Farms

Spreadable butter — butter + oil + water

Lurpak Spreadable Butter — Slightly Salted

Pack size: 250g · Made in: Denmark (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice): Butter (64%), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Lactic Culture, Salt. Contains Milk.

Only 64% butter. Rapeseed oil is what keeps it spreadable from the fridge; water is the third ingredient. This is not a block butter in a tub — it is a butter-oil-water blend, and its fat and salt profile cannot be compared directly to a block. Allergen: milk Butter 64% Rapeseed oil

Lurpak Spreadable Butter — Slightly Salted (Lighter)

Pack size: 250g · Made in: Denmark (as printed)

Ingredients (FairPrice): Butter, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Lactic Acid Culture, Salt. Contains: milk.

Same spreadable idea, lower fat (brand: "lower percentage of fat but retains the good, pure, acidulous taste"). No butter percentage is given on the FairPrice listing retrieved, so none is quoted — do not assume it matches the 64% of the regular spreadable. A UK Lighter listing gives butter 40%, but that is a UK variant, not quoted as the SG list. Allergen: milk Rapeseed oil Lighter

Butter blends — vegetable oil first

Buttercup Luxury Spread — Salted (butter blend)

Pack size: 227g · Made in: not stated (as printed)

Ingredients: Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Milk Fat, Milk Products, Salt, Soya Lecithin, Contains Permitted Emulsifier, Flavourings and Colouring (Beta Carotene).

Vegetable oil first, milk fat third — the reverse of butter. The vitamin-enriched 1kg variant adds vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, D3 and E, plus preservative (potassium sorbate) and antioxidant (BHT); that variant's list is noted here, not panelled as the block list. Buttercup is sold at FairPrice as "Luxury Spread Block" — the word "block" describes its shape, not its composition. Blend — not block butter Allergen: milk, soy Palm oil first

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

Buttercup Luxury Spread — Unsalted — listed at FairPrice/Shopee, but the Shopee unsalted listing repeats the salted ingredient list including salt, so it cannot be panelled as an unsalted list. Needs a pack check.
Pamplie AOP Unsalted Extra Fine Butter, Little Farms — listed (French PDO butter, "le beurre des chefs"), no ingredient list retrieved. Seen-but-not-verified.
FairPrice Butter — Salted / Unsalted (house brand) — FairPrice category pages list both; no FairPrice ingredient section retrieved in this pass.
SCS portion butters (10g) — the salted block list is now panelled (see panel); portion variants need their own pack check.
Golden Churn Salted, Promex Unsalted — listed in SG/MY retail coverage; no SG pack ingredient sections retrieved. (President Unsalted, Westgold Unsalted and Golden Churn Unsalted were panelled in the 5 Nov 2026 re-audit — see panels.)
Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter (Salted / Unsalted) — Unsalted spotted at Prime Butchery SG; the brand's list for the salted variant is pasteurised cream + salt (kerrygold.com). No SG pack ingredient section was retrieved for either variant, so neither is panelled.
Westgold Salted — sold in Singapore (Obbo, Ocean Waves listings); no ingredient list retrieved.
Elle & Vire Dairy Fat Spread 60% (salted) — a lower-fat spread, not a block butter; described as milk fat, water, salt, lactic starter — secondary listing only, not panelled.
Garlic/herb/flavoured butters, whipped butters, ghee/clarified butter — different products; flavoured butters add flavourings/herbs and need their own rows if added.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g. Butter sugars are below 1 g per 100 g in every row where stated; the sugar/salt focus on this page is therefore the salt column, which is exactly the salted-vs-unsalted difference in the ingredient panels. No Nutri-Grade applies to butter as a non-drink, and none is quoted or assigned here.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as “added sugar”. Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted in the research notes. The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar (sucrose, sugar, glucose syrup) versus naturally occurring sugars (lactose in milk, fructose in fruit).

Open Food Facts is a community database and is flagged as secondary where used: the pack and the retailer nutrition section take precedence if they disagree. Figures marked “not stated” were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours.

Product	Basis	Energy	Protein	Total fat	Saturated fat	Carbohydrate	Sugars	Sodium (salt equiv.)
Anchor Block — Unsalted	Per 100 g, as sold	744 kcal	not stated	82 g	52 g	not stated	0 g	0 mg (salt 0 g) — see conflict note
Lurpak Block — Unsalted	Per 100 g, as sold	734 kcal	0.6 g	82 g	53 g	not stated	0.7 g	0 mg (salt 0 g) — see conflict note
Lurpak Block — Slightly Salted	Per 100 g, as sold	739 kcal	not stated	82 g	52 g	not stated	0.7 g	480 mg (salt 1.2 g) — see conflict note
Lurpak Spreadable — Slightly Salted	Per 100 g, as sold	680 kcal	0.5 g	75 g	35 g	not stated	0.6 g	360 mg (salt 0.9 g)
SCS Pure Creamery — Unsalted	Per 100 g, as sold (partial)	739 kcal	< 1 g	82.9 g	54.9 g	< 1 g	< 1 g	not stated
Westgold Block — Unsalted	Per 100 g, as sold	743 kcal (3110 kJ)	0.3 g	83.6 g	54.1 g	0.5 g	0.5 g	6.9 mg (salt 0.02 g)

Observed numbers, no verdict: Lurpak Slightly Salted (block) lists 480 mg sodium per 100 g (salt 1.2 g), Lurpak Spreadable Slightly Salted lists 360 mg sodium per 100 g (salt 0.9 g), and the unsalted blocks list 0 mg sodium per 100 g on the listings tabled above, subject to the conflicts below. Sugars are 0 g per 100 g (Anchor Unsalted), 0.7 g (Lurpak blocks) and 0.6 g (Lurpak Spreadable) where stated.

Conflicts flagged, not silently resolved: Anchor Unsalted — Open Food Facts gives sodium 0 mg per 100 g, while Anchor's own site gives sodium 10 mg per 100 g (salt 0.025 g); the table follows the Open Food Facts row and flags the brand figure. Lurpak Unsalted — one listing gives salt 0.01 g (sodium 4 mg) per 100 g against the 0 g tabled above. Lurpak Slightly Salted — other Open Food Facts listings give salt 0.9 g per 100 g, against the 1.2 g tabled here from the SG-listed salt percentage and the Danish block listing; the SG pack must settle this before publish. Golden Churn Unsalted — an Open Food Facts listing including Singapore gives a French list "Crème, Eau, Sel" (cream, water, salt) against the Spoonful unsalted list panelled above; that listing reads like the canned salted variant, and the SG pack must settle it. None of these conflicts changes the salted-vs-unsalted pattern, but the exact salted figure is not settled.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Elle & Vire Roll (Unsalted and Salted), President Salted, President Unsalted, Anchor Salted, SCS Salted, Golden Churn Unsalted, Pepe Saya Cultured (Unsalted and Salted, Little Farms), Lurpak Spreadable Lighter, and Buttercup Luxury Spread Salted. In particular, the salted-butter figures above are not copied onto Elle & Vire Salted (~2% salt in its ingredient list) or Pepe Saya Salted (1.5% salt) — their percentages imply different sodium figures, which need their own pack panels. Their ingredient panels are unchanged.

How to read a butter label — the jargon, in plain English

Cultured / lactic culture / lactic ferments: Lactic acid bacteria added to cream before churning, fermenting it slightly. That fermentation gives cultured butter its tangier flavour. "Culture", "lactic culture" and "lactic ferments" are the same idea in different brand wording.
Butter (milk) vs cream: Some labels list the finished butter as an ingredient ("Butter (Milk)"), others list the starting cream ("Cream", "Pasteurised Cream"). Both describe block butter; the difference is labelling style, not composition.
Minimum milk fat % (80% / 82%): The fat share of the butter. Salted butter is often 80% (salt displaces fat); unsalted is often 82%. Spreadable and blend products do not carry the same fat meaning — check the butter percentage instead.
Spreadable: Block butter blended with vegetable oil (here, rapeseed oil) and water so it spreads straight from the fridge. The butter percentage (64% for regular Lurpak Spreadable) is the key number.
Butter blend / luxury spread: A product blending vegetable oil with milk fat. If vegetable oil comes first on the list, milk fat is not the main fat — however buttery it tastes or is named.
Beta carotene (colouring): A yellow/orange colouring used in blends to mimic butter's colour. Real block butter's colour comes from the cream itself (and the cows' feed).

What this page is not

Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Block, spreadable and blend are different products, and this page does not rank them.
Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
Not complete. The products in seen-but-not-verified are not yet panelled, for the verification reasons given, not hidden.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient sections (Anchor Unsalted, Lurpak Spreadable variants, Lurpak Unsalted); Lurpak brand site (unsalted/salted block lists); Open Food Facts SG (Lurpak salted block, SCS Unsalted); SCS Dairy official site (conflicting unsalted-page list, flagged); Elle & Vire distributor/retailer listings; Open Food Facts (President Salted); Buttercup retailer/Shopee listings; Little Farms Singapore listings (Pepe Saya cultured pair, Lurpak blocks, Pamplie). Re-audit 5 November 2026: FairPrice ingredient section (Anchor Salted block); SCS Dairy official site (salted block list — Pasteurised Cream (Min. 80% milk fat), Water, Salt); secondary listings for President Unsalted (Spoonful, CalorieCounter AU, Milkrun); Open Food Facts SG listing for Westgold Unsalted (FairPrice, Singapore, barcode 9421016151059, with per-100 g nutrition); Spoonful list for Golden Churn Unsalted plus the conflicting Open Food Facts SG French list; Prime Butchery SG listing (Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter Unsalted spotted); Obbo/Ocean Waves listings (Westgold Salted, no list retrieved). Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g or per 100 ml where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.