Kerrygold Pure Irish Salted Butter — MUNCH

Munch or Dump rates Kerrygold Pure Irish Salted Butter by Kerrygold MUNCH — score 90/90.

Two ingredients: cream and salt. Butter the way it's been made for centuries, from cows that spend most of the year on Irish grass. It's pure fat, so portion accordingly — but as a cooking fat, this is the real thing with nothing to hide.

Why this verdict

• Two-ingredient label: pasteurized cream and salt — no oils, no emulsifiers, no blends
• NOVA 2 culinary ingredient, churned the traditional way
• Grass-fed Irish cream gives it the deep yellow color naturally (beta-carotene), not added dye
• It's still ~100% fat and mostly saturated — a quality fat to cook with, not a health food to eat by the stick

Ingredients (2)

• pasteurized cream (safe) — The butter itself — churned dairy fat. Nutritionally dense in calories and saturated fat, but a real single-source food.
• Salt (moderate) — ~260mg sodium per packet — sweet AND salty is the palatability play.