Enter the Fast-Growing World of Vegan Butter with Butterball® Farms

The vegan butter market has been growing steadily in recent years, with global values already reaching $2.74 billion in 2024.

As more diners embrace plant-based diets, restaurants, hotels, and retailers need to expand their menus with craveworthy vegan options to keep up.

Butterball® Farms produces vegan butter blends for restaurants and other commercial kitchens with the same creativity and quality we give our traditional dairy butter. Give your customers indulgent flavors and a deliciously smooth texture—without adding extra hours to your kitchen’s prep time each week.

We provide both sweet and savory butters in flavors like maple brown sugar and garlic herb. These vegan options are available in many of the same formats as our dairy products, such as pre-portioned dollops, tubs, and individually wrapped portions.

Herbed compound butter that can be made either dairy-based or vegan

Vegan Butter Flavors

Butterball’s specialties is designing custom, craveworthy flavors for commercial kitchens.

Whether it’s sauces, glazes, fillings, cream cheese, or any other high-quality custom ingredient, Butterball can create something special to match the flavor profile and application you are looking for.

We love working with our customers to create custom flavors that put smiles on your customers’ faces and keep them hungry for more.

Asian BBQ butter dollop with chilis and other spices in the background

We’ve been creating delectable butter flavors for years, and these can also be applied to plant-based butter. Some of our most popular flavors include:

Great Foods for Vegan Butter

Because Butterball’s vegan butter can be flavored and customized to the customer’s liking, it can be paired with any number of different food options, such as pasta or vegetables. Our flavor options are also great for dessert. Some of our favorites include cinnamon, pumpkin and maple with brown sugar. If you can’t wait until dessert, our sweetest butter flavors can also do wonders with breakfast foods, such as pancakes or waffles.

Options for Buying Vegan Butter

Our vegan butter is available in many of the same packaging options as our standard butter including tubs and pre-portioned dollops.

Our pre-portioned dollops can be shipped in bulk or individually wrapped with branding, allergens, and nutritional information.

Meal kit companies love how simple it is to add vegan butter dollops to their kits, while retailers enjoy the convenience of selling vegetables alongside the perfect dollop of flavor.

Even restaurants use tubs of vegan butter in the back of the house. Reach out if you have questions about available packaging options.

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Plant-Based Butter Ingredients

Vegan butter is typically made out of a combination of plant-derived oils, such as palm oil or coconut oil.

If you’re interested in vegan butter that features a specific kind of plant oil, such as avocado or olive oil, Butterball Farms can create a custom mixture just for you!

Yes! All butter is inherently gluten-free unless another item is mixed in, such as bread crumbs. Some kinds of plant-based butter do incorporate nut oils into their mixtures for a specific type of flavor, which can be an issue for people who have nut allergies. Butterball does not use nut oils in our standard plant-based butter, though it can be added in as requested.
While margarine is also made from vegetable oils, it often contains small amounts of dairy products. Our plant-based butter does not contain any substances derived from animals, making it 100% vegan.
Vegan butter can be a healthy alternative to standard dairy butter. While the vegetable oils that plant-based butter uses at its base mean it has a similarly high fat and cholesterol content as dairy butter, the nature of the fat content is different. Vegan butter is higher in monounsaturated fat and has less saturated fat content than dairy butter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is plant-based butter better for the environment?

Research has shown that vegan diets reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20–30%. Since cows are a major emitter of methane, a significant greenhouse gas, plant-based diets can help reduce climate change.

Can vegan butter pats be frozen?

Yes! While vegan butter is somewhat softer than dairy butter, it can still be stored in many of the same conditions. Butterball’s vegan butter options are shipped frozen to ensure freshness and help conserve refrigerator space.

Explore Our Vegan Butter Flavors

If you’re ready to start creating the perfect flavor of vegan butter to go with your dish, Butterball Farms would love to work with you! Feel free to give us a call at (888) 828-8837, or send us a question to get started.
Vegan butter is just one of the many options Butterball Farms has available. We’ve been designing high-quality and innovative butter flavors for more than 60 years. We offer custom butter shapes, logo-embossed butter, aiolis, marinades, and more. Butterball frequently partners with restaurants, food manufacturers, retailers, distributors, caterers, hotels, and other businesses to craft the best product for them.