Same Butter Buds, But Better
Butter Buds is a concentrated dairy and specialty ingredient company, deeply committed to providing high-quality ingredients and customer service. Built upon an entrepreneurial vision, we have grown and innovated over the past four decades to become a global leader in dairy concentrates and more, offering value far beyond taste alone.
Through those years of innovation, our branding has changed to best represent Butter Buds through every phase of the business’s growth. In 2024, we took the initiative to modernize our logo and tagline.
The Logo
The new logo features a bold new font accompanied by the modernization of the cow and letter “B” graphic.
The Tagline
Over our decades of success, Butter Buds’ expertise has expanded beyond dairy ingredients to include various non-dairy, allergen-free options and specialty flavor ingredients such as cocoa and bacon. Our new tagline, “Dairy Concentrates & Beyond” speaks to the depth of the Butter Buds portfolio—from our original butter concentrates to the newest selections of dairy and non-dairy ingredients.
Plus, the use of “Beyond” is a nod to our commitment to helping our clients innovate and push the boundaries to deliver unique, better and bolder foods and beverages using Butter Buds® ingredients. We are true partners to our customers and want to see them succeed and delight their end-consumers with delicious formulations across a wide range of applications.
New Look, Same Great Ingredients
We have a new look on the outside, but our innovative, delicious ingredients are all the same on the inside. We’re still committed to making foods & beverages taste great with our concentrated ingredients, often leading to cost savings for manufacturers due to low inclusion levels.
Our portfolio of ingredients include:
Butter Buds® contains real butterfat and unlocks the great taste and texture of real butter through our proprietary enzyme-modification process. Made to not only enhance dairy taste, our butter concentrates also mask off-notes and improve mouthfeel for a rich, well-rounded and delightfully smooth taste experience.
Cheese Buds® are concentrated cheese flavors made with real cheese. With our enzyme-modification process, we create ingredients that embrace the hidden, potent flavor of cheese to create powdered flavors that are as much as 40 times the flavor strength of real cheese. Our newest addition is Cheese Buds-Simple Cheddar Cheese Concentrate, which delivers delicious, indulgent cheddar flavor with a clean label. It doesn’t label as “flavor,” or even “natural flavor,” so it delivers a clean label—all with a natural, indulgent cheddar taste. This line also includes X-Blends, which are concentrated cheese blends designed to replace spray-dried cheese or cheese powder blends, made with enzyme-modified cheese solids with whey and buttermilk solids.
Cream Buds & Milk Buds® are a line of dairy concentrates including Buttermilk Buds®, Cream Buds, Milk Buds®, Sour Cream Buds Concentrate and Yogurt Buds, which are made from fresh, cultured sour cream and milk. These ingredients optimize flavor at low application levels to provide rich dairy flavor, fatty mouthfeel, flavor masking and significant ingredient cost-savings.
Butter Buds® Non-Dairy Specialty Products are a line of concentrated flavors that contain no dairy ingredients, including Butter Buds-Bacon, Cocoa Butter Buds® and Dried Beer Extract. These ingredients are made from unique combinations of raw materials and help food scientists formulate tasty foods that address taste and nutritional challenges.
Ideal Ingredients for Manufacturing & Foodservice
The Butter Buds® concentrates portfolio can be used in a wide range of applications across the food & beverage industry—including manufacturers and foodservice providers.
For Manufacturers
Butter Buds Food Ingredients offers food manufacturers and specialty food companies better-for-you concentrated dairy and non-dairy flavor ingredients they can use to innovate and stay on trend in today’s food and beverage marketplace. Together with our clients, the experts at Butter Buds work to reformulate existing products and develop new ones to respond to market demands including clean label, organic and dairy alternative formulations. With a deep commitment to high-quality ingredients and customer service, Butter Buds Food Ingredients offers unique flavor profiles and functionality for delicious, imaginative products that sell.
For Foodservice
Butter Buds Foodservice℠ products offer convenient and concentrated flavors, reduced labor costs and minimal food storage concerns. Our better-for-you foodservice items add flavor to endless recipes while reducing fat, cholesterol and calories. Committed to using premium ingredients and offering exceptional service, Butter Buds Foodservice℠ solutions can help brands meet their nutrition and budgetary goals.
Same Great Butter Buds
Our new logo and tagline perfectly represent our brand—a dedicated provider of delicious, convenient, cost-saving concentrated dairy and non-dairy ingredients backed by innovative expertise and quality customer service.
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