Flora buttery spreads have been well-loved in many countries for years. You might have spotted them in Europe or Australia. But Flora has finally landed in the U.S., and with a brand new product no less. Flora Plant Butter is a buttery block, or brick as they call it, that’s made for cooking, spreading, and baking. It has launched in the U.S., and in several European countries, in Salted and Unsalted varieties.
Flora Plant Butter is Sprouting Up in Stores Across the Pond
Like most plant-based butter alternatives, Flora Plant Butter is free of dairy, gluten, GMOs, and artificial ingredients. But unlike most brands, it’s also coconut-free. They use a blend of palm oil, sunflower oil, and non-GMO palm oil. Flora is part of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and for U.K. customers, they note use of certified segregated palm oil.
Salted
This variety has 85mg of sodium per tablespoon.
U.S. Ingredients: palm kernel and palm oil, water, sunflower and canola oil, salt, sunflower lecithin, faba bean protein, citric acid, natural flavor, beta carotene (color), vitamin A palmitate.
U.K. Ingredients (packaging look is just slightly different): plant oils (sustainable palm*, sunflower, rapeseed), filtered water, sea salt (1,7%), fava bean preparation, plant-based emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavourings. *Flora Plant uses certified segregated palm oil.
Nutrition (per tablespoon): 100 calories, 11g fat, 0g carbs, 0g fiber, 0g sugars (includes 0g added sugars), 0g protein.*
Unsalted
This variety has 0mg of sodium per tablespoon.
U.K. Ingredients (packaging look is just slightly different): plant oils (sustainable palm, sunflower, rapeseed), filtered water, fava bean preparation, plant-based emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavourings. *Flora Plant uses certified segregated palm oil.
Nutrition (per tablespoon): 100 calories, 11g fat, 0g carbs, 0g fiber, 0g sugars (includes 0g added sugars), 0g protein.*
More Facts on Flora Plant Butter
Price: $3.49 per 8.8-ounce brick
Availability: Flora Plant Butter is available in over 1500 Kroger stores in the U.S. It will be easiest to find in the Midwest, but you’ll probably see it in many regions going forward. In the U.K., look for it where other Flora products are sold.
Certifications: We did not note any certifications on Flora Plant Butter.
Dietary Notes: By ingredients, Flora Plant Butter is dairy-free / non-dairy, egg-free, gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, peanut-free, soy-free, sugar-free, vegan, vegetarian, and keto-friendly.*
For More Product Information: Visit the Flora website at www.flora.com.
*Always read the ingredient and nutrition statement prior to consumption. Ingredients, processes, and labeling are subject to change at any time for any company or product. Contact the company to discuss their manufacturing processes if potential allergen cross-contamination is an issue for you. No food product can be guaranteed “safe” for every individual’s needs. You should never rely on ingredient and allergen statements alone if dealing with a severe food allergy.
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It has the most wonderful buttery taste, and cooks up excellent as well.
This is as close to the taste of real butter as it gets. I love it. Compared to other vegan butters, this wins, hands down. I have Alpha Gal, and had to give up my real butter, so finding Flora, was a Godsend.
Good
First taste: Tasted as good as butter. I will review again after giving a good test run
Tastes great to me
Tastes great to me 🙂 just tried it on my popcorn and it tastes very similar to how my popcorn normally tastes with real butter.
It’s margarine
If it spreads like margarine and tastes like margarine it’s margarine. This is margarine under another name.
Response from Go Dairy Free
Surprisingly, there is actually a regulatory difference between margarine and buttery spread or sticks (sometimes called plant butter for marketing purposes). This explains why this product legally isn’t margarine -> https://www.godairyfree.org/food-and-grocery/buttery-spread-margarine-differences
Great dairy free alternative to butter.
I am pleased with this product as it does not have any annoying margarine like taste to it and is a perfect dairy free alternative to butter and is also good for making cakes, biscuits & buttercream filling.
Overpriced margernine
Unless you have some reason to buy this product for ideological reasons, you should not.
I got a free sample packed and tried to use it: It’s in every practical way the same as cheap margarine but sold at over triple the price. It does taste nothing like real butter.
It’s a decent margarine as far as such a product can exist, but no better in taste than house brands in any way. If you’re used to use real butter you’d be very disappointed with this synthetic alternative.
