Why is there no sweet (as in 'with sugar') butter?

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I understand salted butter can be useful is some situations, but why there's no such thing as "sugar butter" that can be sold in stores? I mean, there is sweet milk (concentrated, for instance) and sweet yoghurt, but no sweet butter nor sweet cheese. Is it just cultural or is there some chemical explanation behind it?



Best Answer

Butter traditionally has salt in it as a preservative, mainly to stop bacterial growth on the residual whey, and to slow fat rancidity

Modern butter has a much lower amount of salt than is required for shelf storage in the pre-electric era. Now we have refrigerators, salt is not required at such a high level

Butter with no salt has nearly half of the shelf life of modern salted butter

Processed sugar is a modern ingredient, and therefore there is no culture in having it in butter.

Sweet yoghurt and milk are all "new" inventions

Using salt as a preservative is as old as recorded history. Many cultures used salt to preserve fruits, as well as meats and vegetables




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Does butter have sugar added?

Does butter have sugar? Butter does not contain significant sugar. Butter is made from milk, which contains lactose, or milk sugar. There is a negligible amount remaining in butter after processing, but not enough to raise your blood sugar level.

Does salted butter have added sugar?

Salt can be added or it can be left unsalted. Sugar is not added in normal manufacturing of butter. While sugar is not an ingredient added during manufacturing, it does still contains trace amounts of sugar. This is because butter is made from milk.



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Answer 2

There is such a thing, for example Corriher has a great recipe in Cookwise for chambord butter. These foods are of course not pure butter, just as "fruit yoghurt" is not pure yogurt: you can mix butter with sugar and sweet flavorings to make a sweet butter spread, like you can mix it with parsley and chives to make a savory spread.

As to why there is no commercially mixed sweet butter readily available, I suspect that this is a simple case of the law of supply and demand. And the missing demand for certain foods globally (like sweet butter) or locally (like cream of tartar) is an interesting sociology problem (I suspect it is due to the cooking styles in certain influential books like Better Homes and Gardens in the US and Dr Oetker Kochbuch in Germany), but it has no real culinary roots.

Answer 3

Bacteria loves sugar. Butter with sugar added will spoil in a few hours at room temperature unless preservatives are added.

Answer 4

Two reasons. Butter is sweet. Butter is a base ingredient. How would one determine the level of sweetness and what would it be used for. How would sweet butter increase sales over plain?

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