Understanding the Ingredients in Vegan Butter: What Goes into the Perfect Plant-Based Spread

Any Vegan who has been living plant-based for over 5 years now can tell you, that vegan butter has come a long way. This amazing ingredient is one of the most beloved across the world - finding itself as a way of enhancing food in so many different cuisines, dishes, classics, and more. Butter is one of those special ingredients that is equally as important in sweet and savory food, so it is widely used!

Vegan butter has not always lived up to the non-vegan standard. However, with some modernization, we have finally reached parity! There are some truly incredible vegan butter products out there at the moment. The vegan butter ingredients have changed slightly, though it is more the process and competition that has driven this.

One of the key factors contributing to this innovation is big brands creating their own plant-based product. Top, global butter brands have started to create their own vegan products. Some of these are better than vegan butter brands themselves! Some have a bit of a way to go but it’s great to see competition in the space.

If you’re wondering how on Earth you make vegan butter then we will explain. Essentially all you need is fat. In non-vegan butter, they use milk to derive whey from. In vegan butter, they use anything from coconut oil, to oil, to soy, to nuts, and more! We will highlight what is the base of each product we showcase today.

We will highlight some of our favorite vegan butter that we carry at our online store. The vegan butter ingredients vary quite a lot and can be made from many different bases. We will aim to offer some great products for all different dietary requirements as some are made with nut and soy bases.

Perfect Plant Based Butter Options

Violife - Plant Butter

If you’ve been vegan for a while then you’ll probably know this brand. Violife is one of the best vegan alternative brands in the world. They have a fabulous range of products including this butter block. 

This Butter block is made from plant-based oil that is soy, gluten, nut, and preservative-free! They come in both salted and unsalted for baking and savory uses.

Olivio - Butter Spread Light 

This wonderful spread somewhat falls into the “butter” classification. It can probably be considered a margarine - a spread that is lower in calories and fat than regular butter. It is super spreadable and made with a blend of oils including olive oil. This gives a beautiful minerality to any dish you desire to use it in.

Nutiva - Organic Coconut Oil with Buttery Flavor 

This amazing product combines all of the wonderful flavors of butter with simple, organic ingredients. Nutiva wanted to make a product without a long list of additives to deliver vegans a healthy, delicious butter alternative. They combine organic refined expeller-pressed coconut oil with some organic flavors and organic annatto extract for color to produce this amazing alternative. It has the mouthwatering taste of butter and coconut all in one!

Miyoko's Creamery - Organic Cultured Vegan Butter Hint of Sea Salt 

These butter have all been wonderful and full of potential uses. This butter is a step up in terms of flavor. This cultured butter has been allowed to naturally ferment to create a deeply complex and bountiful flavor within this vegan butter. They use oat milk as a base so it is suitable for people with nut allergies. They add a sprinkling of sea salt as well to elevate the savory flavor. This will work really nicely when added to toast or more simple butter-based dishes.

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Earth Balance - Buttery Spread 

This is one vegan butter that you might be familiar with. Earth Balance are one of the leaders in vegan butter and you can find their products all over the country. There are so many people trying out veganism and they are filling that demand! This butter is really spreadable and also works to help to thicken and add gloss to so many sauces, soups, and much more.

Miyoko's Creamery - Cultured Vegan Unsalted Butter 

This is a wonderful, European-style butter. Everyone knows that the best butter comes from Europe. Miyoko’s Creamery has replicated this amazing vegan butter that has been cultured and perfectly processed to replicate the best European butter. Enjoy this in any kind of recipe you can imagine!

Monty's - Plant-Based Butter 

This wonderful product is a fabulous amalgamation of all vegan butter technology made in a small batch mindest-ted way. Monty’s are helping to revolutionize the vegan butter industry by developing this lovely plant-based butter that can help to bring some real depth and deliciousness to any of your dishes.

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We hope you have enjoyed learning a bit about vegan butter and all of its glory! The gap really is shrinking between non-vegan and vegan butter these days and we’re so lucky to have so many amazing choices to choose from. Click on any one of the links to get your basket built up with some fabulous vegan butter products to order straight to your door today.