Ranking Grocery Store Butter Brands From Worst To Best

While Great Value Salted Butter behaves fairly normally, it has an overpowering taste of salt, which blocks out any other rich butter notes you'd expect.

Cabot Creamery's Sweet Cream Butter is a bit expensive at $7.99 for 16 ounces, and it suffers from a surplus of salt. It is distinctly savory rather than sweet.

Challenge’s salted butter suffers from a bad case of mediocrity. The salt isn’t so strong, but the sweet cream flavor doesn’t stand out much and isn’t rich enough.

Breakstone's Kosher-certified salted butter is not a stand-out, but it ticks all the boxes. The taste has a well-rounded sweetness, and it’s only $3.79 for 8 ounces.

Publix's Salted Sweet Cream Butter has a nicely balanced (if understated) presence of salt and slightly sweet cream. It also melts, browns, and softens fairly quickly.