Butter

Also: salted butter

Churned cream, about 80% fat. Salted butter carries roughly 1.5% salt; recipes that care say unsalted.

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Conversions

1 stick
113 g
1 US cup
227 g
1 metric cup
240 g
1 tablespoon
14.4 g
1 teaspoon
4.8 g
Density
0.96 g/ml

Weigh when you can: a cup of the same butter varies with how it is filled. Convert Other Amounts

Substitutes

  • Ghee0.8 g for each 1 g; Ghee is almost pure fat; butter is about 80% fat.
  • Unsalted Butter1 : 1 by weight; Add about 1.5% of the butter weight in salt.

Per 100 g

Energy
717 kcal
Protein
0.85 g
Fat
81.1 g
Saturated Fat
51.4 g
Carbohydrate
0.06 g
Sugars
0.06 g
Fiber
0 g
Sodium
643 mg

From USDA FoodData Central where available.

Kinds of Butter

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