Everything people ask us at demos, in DMs, and in the dairy aisle. If your question isn’t here, ask a human.
Yes, that’s the whole point. Monty’s is churned to behave like European-style butter: it melts onto toast, browns in a pan, and swaps 1:1 for dairy butter in baking. The Oat Butter is the one we reach for in a hot skillet; the Cultured Cashew Butter is the one we finish a steak or a pan sauce with.
The same thing it means in a great European butter or a real cheese: fermented slowly with live cultures. Our cashew butter and cream cheese are cultured for real depth of flavor. The tang you taste is time, not an additive.
Because it’s solid when cold and melts when warm, exactly how butter behaves, without palm oil, gums, or emulsifiers to fake the texture. It’s the shortest path to real butter structure from a plant, which is why it’s the first ingredient on our label instead of a “vegetable oil blend.”
All of our butters are seed oil free. Nothing we make contains canola, soybean, sunflower, or safflower oil, the oils that fill out most alternative butters. Every ingredient in every product is printed on the products page, so you don’t have to take our word for it.
The Oat Butter is made with certified gluten-free and glyphosate-free organic oats. The cashew butter and cream cheese are gluten free as well.
The cashew butter contains cashews and almond oil (tree nuts). The cream cheese contains cashews and is made in a facility that also processes peanuts. The Oat Butter is made with coconut oil; as of the FDA’s 2025 guidance, coconut is no longer classified as a tree nut for allergen labeling, but we call it out anyway for anyone managing a coconut allergy. If you have a serious allergy, read the label on the cup. It’s short, and it’s all there.
Keep Monty’s refrigerated, like the real butter it is; you’ll find a make date on every cup. Cream Cheese: 60 days refrigerated. Butter: 90 days refrigerated. The butters freeze beautifully if you want to extend them; thaw in the fridge overnight.
We’re in the dairy case at Erewhon, Gelson’s, Lassens, and Mother’s Market; the full list is on the where to buy page. We don’t ship year-round yet. If we’re not near you, ask your grocer to carry Monty’s, it works more often than you’d think, or join the newsletter below and you’ll hear when that changes.