Natural Butter Concentrates are highly versatile and can be used across a wide range of food applications as a cost effective replacement for salted or unsalted butter. Butter concentrates are ideal in low fat applications where they provide a rich butter profile and mouth feel at a fraction of the fat, calories and cholesterol content.
With typical concentrations of up to 50 to 70 times that of standard butter, Butter Concentrates can be used from as low as 0.1%. Our Butter Concentrates are available in convenient to use paste, powder and liquid formats with a shelf life of 6 to 12 Months.
In the Bakery Sector, Butter Concentrates are used in biscuits, cookies, croissants, pastry, cakes, muffins, doughnuts, fillings and toppings. Confectionary applications include toffee, fudge and chocolate. Butter Concentrates provide rich flavours in savoury sauces like hollandaise and Beurre Blanc as well as sweet sauces like caramel and butterscotch.
In UHT and nutritional beverages, Butter Concentrates function to mask off flavours form heat treatments, soya and nutrient fortifications. In the snacks category it is used in savoury snacks and snack seasonings. Butter Concentrates provide excellent flavours in batters, beadings and marinades. The list of applications is endless.
Our team of Food Scientists and Applications Technologists can help you select the correct product and usage rate for your needs. We can also develop new or custom made flavours to meet our customers’ requirements.
Functions and Benefits of Butter Concentrates
- Made from butter and other dairy ingredients
- Rich butter flavour and creamy mouth feel
- Replace or reduce butter for cost savings
- Excellent in low fat applications, improves nutritional profile
- Provides rich dairy notes in products containing non-dairy fats
- Enhance and complement flavours – vanilla chocolate caramel and savoury flavours
- Mask off flavours e.g. form heat treatment, soya, nutritional beverages
- Provides smooth balanced flavour and consistent flavour delivery
- Clean label declaration (natural)
- Available in easy to use liquid, paste or powder formats
Applications
- Bakery – biscuits, cookies, croissants, pastry, cakes, muffins, doughnuts, fillings and toppings
- Confectionery – toffee and fudge, sugar confectionery, chocolate
- Sweet Sauces – caramel, butterscotch
- Savoury Sauces – hollandaise, beurre blanc, ready meals
- Seasonings – snack seasonings, seasoning blends, marinades
- Dairy based and UHT beverages
- Nutritional and low fat beverages – fitness, slimming and nutritional powders and drinks
- Desserts and frozen foods
- Low fat products including yoghurts and fat replacers
Butter Concentrate Product Range
| Product code | Butter Concentrate | Format | Flavour Profile | Usage Level |
| 20010-12000
20020-13000 |
Concentrated butter | Paste | Strong butter top and middle notes | 0.1 – 1 % |
| 20011-12001
20021-13001 |
Concentrated butter | Powder | Strong butter top and middle notes | 0.2 – 2 % |
| 20024-13015 | Concentrated butter | Paste | Strong butter top and middle notes. Contains annatto. | 0.1 – 1 % |
| 20025-13016 | Concentrated butter | Powder | Strong butter top and middle notes, contains annatto | 0.2 – 2% |
| 20026-13009 | 8X Butter Flavour | Powder | Rounded butter flavour with low middle and top notes | 2 to 4% |
| 20027-13017 | 16X Butter flavour | Powder | Rounded strong butter flavour with background middle and top notes | 1-3% |
| 20028-13033 | 32X Butter Flavour | Powder | Rounded extra strong butter flavour with background middle and top notes | 0.5 – 2% |
| 20029 -13060 | Cooked Butter /Ghee | Paste | Strong cooked butter top and middle notes, nutty caramel overtones | 0.1 – 1 % |
| 20030 -13061 | Cooked Butter /Ghee | Powder | Strong cooked butter top and middle notes, nutty caramel overtones | 0.2 – 2 % |
| 20031-13090 | Concentrated liquid butter | Liquid | Concentrated butter suspended in a vegetable oil carrier. Strong butter top and middle notes | 0.2 – 2 % |
Butter Concentrates Applications
Usage Levels (%) for Butter Concentrates in a selection of typical Applications
| Butter Concentrate | Format | Biscuits/
Cookies |
Cakes/ Muffins | Pastry | Confectionery | Sweet/Savoury Sauces, Soups | UHT/
Nutritional Beverages |
Ice Cream/ Frozen
Desserts |
Marinades /Basting Sauces | Batters & Breadings | Snack Seasonings | Savoury Snacks |
| Concentrated butter | Paste | 0.2-0.75 | 0.2-0.75 | 0.5-1.5 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-0.75 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-1.0 | 0.2-1.0 | 0.2-1.0 | 0.2-1.0 |
| Concentrated butter | Powder | 0.5 -1.5 | 0.5 -1.5 | 1.0-3.0 | – | 0.5 -1.5 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5 -1.5 | 0.5 -2.0 | 0.5-2.0 | 0.5 -2.0 |
| 8X Butter Flavour | Powder | 1.0 -3.0 | 1.0 -3.0 | 1.0-4.0 | – | 1.0 -3.0 | 1.0-3.0 | 1.0-3.0 | 1.0 -3.0 | 1.0 -3.0 | 2.0-20 | 1 -3.0 |
| 16X Butter flavour | Powder | 0.75-2.0 | 0.75-2.0 | 0.75-3.0 | – | 0.75-1.5 | 0.75-1.5 | 0.75-1.5 | 0.75-1.5 | 0.75-1.5 | 1.5-15 | 0.75-2 |
| 32X Butter Flavour | Powder | 0.5-1.5 | 0.5-1.5 | 0.5-2.0 | – | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 1-10 | 0.5-1.5 |
| Cooked Butter Flavour /Ghee | Paste | 0.2-0.75 | 0.2-0.75 | 0.2-2.0 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-0.75 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-1.0 | 0.2-0.75 | 1-10 | 0.2-1.0 |
| Cooked Butter Flavour /Ghee | Powder | 0.5 -1.5 | 0.5 -1.5 | 0.5-2.0 | – | 0.3 -1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5-1.0 | 0.5 -1.5 | 0.5 -1.0 | – | 0.5 -1.5 |
| Concentrated liquid butter | Liquid | 0.3 -1.0 | 0.3 -1.0 | 0.2-2.0 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.3 -1.0 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.2-0.5 | 0.3 -1.0 | 0.3 -1.0 | – | 0.3 -1.0 |
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