Brummel & Brown Buttery Spread with Real Yogurt — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates Brummel & Brown Buttery Spread with Real Yogurt by Brummel & Brown ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
A lab-built butter mimic: refined soybean and palm oils held together with modified starch and emulsifiers, dyed yellow with beta carotene, and dressed up with a splash of yogurt to sound wholesome.
Why this verdict
- Refined soybean + palm kernel/palm oils are the real base, not yogurt
- Modified tapioca starch plus mono & diglycerides and soy lecithin stack emulsifiers and texturizers
- Potassium sorbate preservative and beta carotene added as color
- Built to imitate butter in a factory, not a minimally processed food
Ingredients (13)
- Purified water (safe) — Inert filler and base for the emulsion.
- Soybean Oil (moderate) — Refined high-omega-6 seed oil used to fake creaminess
- Nonfat yogurt (cultured nonfat milk) (safe) — The real-yogurt selling point, but only a small fraction of the product.
- palm kernel and palm oil (moderate) — Tropical oils added for solid texture; raise the saturated fat and carry sustainability baggage.
- modified tapioca starch (moderate) — Industrially modified starch used as a texturizer; a marker of ultra-processing.
- Salt (moderate) — Ready meals tend to run salt-heavy; watch the sodium.
- Mono and Diglycerides (concerning) — Industrial emulsifier and a known hiding spot for trace trans fats not declared on the label.
- Potassium Sorbate (moderate) — Synthetic preservative, generally tolerated but a sign of a heavily preserved product.
- Lactic Acid (safe) — Mild acidulant for tang; harmless in this amount.
- Lecithin (Soy) (moderate) — Emulsifier that helps oil and water blend; common processing aid.
- Natural Flavors (moderate) — Catch-all term for an undisclosed flavor blend — not harmful, but it undercuts a 'clean' label and isn't really 'no artificial' transparency.
- Vitamin A palmitate (safe) — Added vitamin A.
- beta carotene color (moderate) — Added purely to dye the spread butter-yellow; cosmetic, not nutritional.