On Aug 5, 2:50*pm, " > wrote:
> How come if I look at the ingredient list on a pound of salted butter
> it has just cream and salt listed in the ingredients but if I look on
> a package of unsalted butter it lists natural flavoring as one of the
> ingredients? *I looked at three different brands of unsalted butter
> and none of them were just plain cream.

Unsalted butter uses something called 'Starter Distillate' to make the
butter taste better. It's a by-product of some bacteria or other.
That's the "natural flavoring" they were referring to. Apparently
real, unsalted butter would be pretty bland without a few carefully
chosen yeasties eating, breeding and pooping around in it.