Butter Buds - Food Ingredients

Butter Buds® deliver a host of benefits

Increase product quality and consumer perception
These natural dairy concentrates contribute significantly to overall product quality by not only delivering rich flavor, but through the multiple functionalities outlined below. The result is a product that provides a more satisfying eating experience, with better nutritional profiles, produced at lower total ingredient costs. That’s a win-win proposition for successful marketability of your processed food product.

Save on ingredients costs
Using Butter Buds®, you can actually save on total ingredient costs, without sacrificing quality or label appeal. Concentrated flavor and powerful functionalities help make this a reality. A better product… at less cost… now that’s a concept that everyone can embrace!

Reduce fat content
Because Butter Buds® are so highly concentrated, they are typically used at extremely low application levels (1.0% or less). As a result, the average fat contribution is usually less than 0.1% of finished product. So, you can replace butter, cream or cheese with Butter Buds® to create a low-fat product that retains the flavor and eating qualities of it’s full-fat counterpart.

Enhance mouth feel
The rich flavor of Butter Buds® actually serves to deliver a rich mouthfeel perception such as provided by fats. In a sense, it “fools” the palate into perceiving a richer, fuller, more complex mouth feel than otherwise available in products such as, for example, reduced fat bakery foods.

Enhance other flavors
Butter Buds® have a synergistic effect on other flavors in a food system, actually helping to enhance the perception of both savory and sweet flavors.

Mask off-flavors
Off-flavors can present real challenges in many food systems, ranging from “warmed over” notes in meat products to the undesirable flavor of soy ingredients. Even at their low application levels, Butter Buds® can very effectively mask these off-notes.

Round off harsh notes in seasoning blends
If you are using seasoning blends in your product, you know that some of harsher notes can be problematic. Using Butter Buds®, you can “round out” these notes without changing the desired flavor profile. The difference can be subtle or profound, depending upon your exact requirements.

Stable pricing
We all know that the prices of dairy commodities can fluctuate wildly, creating a real challenge to your cost control strategies. In contrast, Butter Buds® are very stable in price. So you know you’ll be able to keep a lid on costs today, and tomorrow to more precisely control your margins.