Are any of your spreads dairy and lactose-free? Yes! I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Vegan is dairy-free.

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! is a brand of a spreadable emulsion of vegetable oil in water with butter flavor produced by Upfield and marketed as a substitute for butter.

Plant-based butter, also referred to as vegan butter, is a nondairy butter substitute that's typically made by combining water with a plant-derived oil, such as olive, avocado, coconut, palm kernel oil, or a combination of oils.

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

Traditional butter is made by churning milk or cream, sometimes adding salt. Spreadable uses oil and may have less saturated fat. That said, the main ingredient in Anchor Spreadable is butter, which is why it still has that quintessential buttery taste.

Read on to understand how the following 15 ingredients can act as butter substitutes for different recipes and dishes.

• MARGARINE. Margarine is a fat that is made mostly from vegetable oil that's flavored to taste like butter.
• SHORTENING.
• OLIVE OIL & VEGETABLE OIL.
• COCONUT OIL.
• PUMPKIN PURÉE.
• APPLESAUCE.
• GREEK YOGURT.
• BANANAS.

Ingredients. Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Sweet Cream Buttermilk, Xanthan Gum, Soy Lecithin, Polysorbate 60, Lactic Acid, Potassium Sorbate And Calcium Disodium EDTA (Used To Protect Quality), Natural And Artificial Flavor, Vitamin A Palmitate Beta Carotene (Color).

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.

Butter contains vitamin D, a nutrient that is vital for bone growth and development. It also has calcium, which is essential for bone strength. Calcium also helps prevent diseases such as osteoporosis, a condition that makes bones weak and fragile. It can help make your skin healthier.

But when the munchies come calling, and the butter dish is empty, consider these common butter substitutes.

• Margarine.
• Shortening.
• Olive & Vegetable Oil.
• Coconut Oil.
• Pumpkin Puree.
• Applesauce.
• Greek Yogurt.
• Bananas.

Types of Butter

• Salted. Salted butter is all-natural butter, readily available at any grocery store.
• Unsalted. Because many baking recipes are an exact science, added salt (which helps extend freshness) can sometimes mess with the chemistry.
• Clarified.
• European Style.
• Whipped.
• Ghee.
• Cultured.
• Spreadable.

For its Original Spread, the margarine's marketers praise it for having “70% less saturated fat than butter.” That's true, but each 1-tablespoon serving of “I Can't Believe It's Not Butter” still contains 2 grams of artery-damaging saturated fat.