Butter Buds & Beyond: New Logo, Same Ingredients & Expertise You Can Count On

Butter Buds Inc. is a concentrated dairy and specialty ingredient company, deeply committed to providing you with the highest quality ingredients and customer service. We have grown over the past four decades to become a global leader in dairy concentrates and more, offering value far beyond flavor alone.

Perfecting the art and science of concentrated flavor technology, we help you make your food and beverage products taste delicious. We continue to innovate, develop and grow, applying our expertise and pushing the boundaries to deliver unique, better and bolder ingredients. Working in partnership with our customers—in the way that suits them best—we help them deliver trend-driven formulations in a wide range of applications.

New Logo, Same Ingredients

While our logo may have changed, our ingredients have not. Our diverse portfolio of dairy and non-dairy ingredient solutions has what you need to create an on-trend, winning product.

Explore our ingredient solutions:

• Butter Buds^®: By unlocking the great taste and goodness of butter with our proprietary enzyme-modification process, Butter Buds enhances dairy taste, masks off-notes and improves mouthfeel.

• Cheese Buds^® & X-Blends: Made with real cheese, Cheese Buds & X-Blends add rich cheesy flavor while improving the nutritional profile of a variety of applications.

• Cream Buds & Milk Buds: Achieve rich dairy flavor, fatty mouthfeel, flavor masking and significant ingredient cost-savings.

• Non-Dairy Specialty Products: With the increase in dairy alternative products entering the market, we can help you create a new non-dairy product or reformat an existing one.

• Organic Products: As consumer demand for organic foods continues to rise, we’re helping manufacturers earn organic certification and create organic products that sell.

• Clean Label Products: Clean labels are becoming a necessity, and we can help you create ingredient lists that get noticed for all the right reasons.

Fresh From Wisconsin

Butter Buds was established in 1979 by the Buhler Family, and we are proud to still be a family owned and operated business today. And, our Midwestern values spread through every aspect of our business. We will always keep our customers’ interests first and go the extra mile to help you craft something special—all while getting products to market faster.

In Racine, Wisconsin—America's dairy heartland—our customers can explore the next generation of ingredients and technology in our state-of-the-art facilities. Whether it’s with the applications technologists in our 8,000 sq. ft. applications lab or the scientists that make up our R&D staff, we help you develop new products and formulation possibilities. In the heart of the Midwest, the Buhlers and our talented team of employees continue to anticipate, explore, research and discover solutions for the tastes of tomorrow.

Hear From The Team

Our National Sales Director, Michael Ivey, shared that, “Butter Buds was started to bring the goodness of real dairy in a functional, cost-effective way to the flavor market. Because of our commitment to customer service and innovation, we’ve listened to what the market needs and grown beyond our entrepreneurial beginnings to become a global leader in not only concentrated dairy flavors, but also dairy alternatives and specialty ingredients that leverage our unique expertise in enzyme modification, sourcing and functionality. Our new logo and tagline are bold, forward-thinking and innovative—just like Butter Buds. They reflect our company today and how now—although still rooted in the dairy farms of Wisconsin—we are ‘Dairy Concentrates and Beyond’.”

A Partner You Can Trust

Our team lives and breathes food science, nutrition, sensory analysis and product development—and is ready to develop a solution with your name on it. Are you ready to get started? Contact our team here.