The primary ingredients of Country Crock® products are a blend of plant-based oils, water, and salt. Country Crock® products contain no artificial preservatives or flavors, including: Country Crock® Original, Light, and Churn Style spreads as well as our new Country Crock® Plant Butter sticks and tubs.

We've been slow-churning our spreads in Johnson County, Kansas for over 30 years. We couldn't be more proud to call this little piece of the American heartland home - and we're proud to bring the country into your home, too.

Ingredients. Water, Soybean oil 30%, Modified palm kernel and palm oils 8%, Salt, Soy lecithin, Vinegar, Natural flavour, Vitamin A palmitate, Beta carotene.

Country Crock® is a spread made with oils from plants, whereas butter is made with milk or cream from cows. Country Crock® has less saturated fat per serving than dairy butter, but still has a delicious buttery taste. Country Crock® products also tend to be softer out of the fridge for easy spreading.

Now, technically, Country Crock spreads aren't margarine. Less than 80 percent of each serving is made of fat, which is below margarine's federal definition. But let's call a spade a spade: It tastes like butter, you can spread it on toast, and there's not a lick of milk in it.

Country Crock is a margarine that was conceived in the 70's when margarine consumption was at its peak as a healthy alternative to butter. Today both butter and margarine are at war due to consumer's heightened awareness in natural ingredients.

Country Crock is a food brand owned by Upfield. It originally sold spreads such as margarine (and cheese for a limited time), but later extended to side dishes, particularly mashed potatoes and pasta, made by Hormel under license. The original Shedd's brand was a product of Shedd-Bartush Foods based in Detroit.

Butter contains at least 80% milk fat, around 16% water, 1.5–2.0% salt and 2% other milk solids. The fat in butter is approximately 67% saturated, 29% monounsaturated and 4% polyunsaturated.

Margarine is a blend of oils that are mostly unsaturated fat. Butter is made from cream or milk. The type of fat found in animal products, such as cream, is mostly saturated fat. Replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Margarine often tops butter when it comes to heart health. Margarine is a blend of oils that are mostly unsaturated fat. Butter is made from cream or milk. The type of fat found in animal products, such as cream, is mostly saturated fat.

Ingredients. Purified Water, Soybean Oil, Palm Kernel and Palm Oil, Salt, Lecithin (Soy), Vinegar, Natural Flavors, Vitamin A Palmitate, Beta Carotene (Color), Vitamin D3.

ancient Africa Khosrova traces butter's beginning back to ancient Africa, in 8000 B.C., when a herder making a journey with a sheepskin container of milk strapped to the back of one of his sheep found that the warm sheep's milk, jostled in travel, had curdled into something remarkably tasty.