Lurpak® is a pale-coloured lactic butter made using the milk from our owners in Denmark. The process begins with roughly 20kg of whole milk to make every 1kg of butter. The most valuable and tasty part of the milk – the cream – is carefully “ripened” before being used for the butter making process.
Lurpak butter is made in Denmark from the purest Danish cow's milk. Available salted or unsalted, it is a great butter to spread on bread, melt over steamed vegetables, or use as a baking ingredient. Perfect to mix, fry, drizzle and bake into all kinds of creations. Varieties sold separately.
Anchor Spreadable is a delicious blend of Anchor butter and rapeseed oil. Lovingly made in the UK from 100% British milk. Perfect for sandwiches, toast and crumpets.
The butter company raised the price of its products to ensure that dairy farmers get a "fair deal", according to the BBC. In a announcement, Lurpak's owner, Arla Foods, disclosed that dairy farmers have been losing money as a result of rising fertiliser and fuel prices.
Nordpak - Aldi
Taste-wise, it tastes like butter, not quite as strong as Lurpak tastes, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The savoury spread complimented the toast, rather than overpowering it, something I wouldn't have noticed about Lurpak if I hadn't tasted it first.
Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons all have their own-brand equivalent of Lurpak. Aldi sells Nordpak, Lidl offers Danpak and Morrisons stock Spreadable.
M&S has sourced butter and cream from Dale Farm in Northern Ireland since 1989. Dale Farm supplies naturally spreadable butter to M&S for the whole of the UK.
Imported from Ireland, this butter is made with milk from grass-fed cows. Whether you like butter on your baked potatoes, on your waffles and pancakes, or on a piece of plain toast, Countryside Creamery Pure Irish Butter won't disappoint.
Produced in the U.K., using milk from the U.K.
Bordier. France's Bordier is often considered by many in the culinary world to be among the best butter brands on the market. This is because of Bordier's determination to return to traditional methods, where the butter is kneaded by hand on a wooden table instead of being processed with factory equipment.
LURPAK® QUALITY BUTTER SINCE 1901
Our Lurpak® butter process begins with roughly 20kg of whole Danish milk to make every 1kg of butter. The most valuable and flavoursome part of the milk – the cream – is carefully "ripened" before the butter making process.
Lurpak® is a pale-coloured lactic butter made using the milk from our owners in Denmark. The process begins with roughly 20kg of whole milk to make every 1kg of butter.
Yellow butter is produced by grass-crunching cows, because they're taking in lots of beta-carotene from the great outdoors. Lush, green British fields are ideal, because there's so much for the cows to tuck into – so butter from the UK is often a particularly rich yellowy colour.
Blended Spread 78% (52% milk fat & 26% rapeseed oil). Genuine excellence and mouthwatering flavour don't just come out of nowhere, and Lurpak® has had an uncompromising approach to making real, quality butter since 1901.
“Grass-fed butter has the nutritional edge in that it offers more heart-healthy nutrients than regular butter in a less-processed product than margarine,” Malkani says. You can typically find grass-fed butter at the grocery store or natural foods market. Look for terms like “pasture” and “grass-fed” on the label.
Leading brands of 'Butter/ Light Butter' in Great Britain based on the number of consumers are 'Lurpak' with 8,072,660 consumers, followed by 'Anchor' with 4,694,950 consumers and 'Tesco' with 4,613,680 consumers in 2021.
Lurpak® is now the UK's number one selling butter and margarine brand both in terms of sales volume and value, according to latest market data from AC Nielsen. Lurpak®, produced by the UK's largest dairy company and cooperative, Arla, has been number one in terms of value for the last seven years.
Arla Pro® butter is made from pure cream from Danish cows. Deliciously fresh butter made from the finest cream, delivering a natural full flavour and a light yellow colour. It has a pure, aromatic, acidulous taste with a touch of salt. Its appearance is close and homogenous with an even, glossy shine.
Market and production
Lurpak® is produced at the Arla Foods dairy “Holstebro Smør” in the Jutlandian town of Holstebro. Lurpak® is sold worldwide, and is often served in small flight packages onboard airplanes.
The butter produced by Lewis Road Creamery, half owned by Southern Pastures, and exported to the US is made from milk from nine Southern Pastures farms in Canterbury.
Anchor Butter
Reasonably salty, a safe bet for toast. Only a fraction cheaper than Lurpak though and many of the own brands rated better for taste. I don't think it's worth the higher price tag."
The UK's largest producer of milk and butter has issued a warning that the UK is "on the edge" of a dairy shortage amidst the rising cost of butter. Arla Foods, the owner of Lurpak and Cravendale Milk, has warned that a chronic shortage of workers has forced dairy farmers to cut back on production.