The Best Butter To Buy At The Grocery Store, According To Experts

HuffPost consulted chefs, cheesemongers and cookbook authors about which grocery-store butters are worth buying, landing on cultured butter, made by fermenting cream with lactic bacteria before churning, as the superior choice over standard American sweet-cream butter.

Sources explain that butterfat content, not branding, drives quality: European-style butters typically run 82-85% butterfat versus about 80% for standard American butter, affecting everything from pastry flakiness to sauce texture. Named favorites include Kerrygold and Vermont Creamery, with an assurance that checking a nutrition label and doing simple math can reveal a butter's true fat content.

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