Each butter product was put through a series of rigorous performance tests to determine their suitability, quality, and excellence before being awarded the accolade. Approved products are allowed to promote their Endorsement, a guarantee to professional chefs of their quality, taste, packaging and performance.

Andrew Green, chief executive of the Craft Guild of Chefs said: “Our panel of industry chefs were delighted to award Lakeland Dairies’ butter range Craft Guild of Chefs Approved Product status. Our judges found the range of butters to ‘have a great flavour profile with good colour and creamy texture.”

The judges went on to highlight Lakeland Dairies Unsalted and Salted Butter as ‘great products with a brilliant shelf life and easy to use’.

Jean Cattanach, marketing controller at Lakeland Dairies, commented: “We are delighted our Lakeland Dairies butter range has received ‘Approved Status’ by the prestigious Craft Guild of Chefs. This follows our Lakeland Dairies Real Dairy Single Cream being endorsed under the scheme and continues to demonstrate our dairy expertise.”

Lakeland Dairies Foodservice creates professional dairy products for chefs which have been carefully designed to deliver extraordinary taste and fantastic functional performance, specialising in products which provide a longer life for added convenience in busy kitchens.

With a proud heritage in dairy farming, Lakeland Dairies is a 100% farmer-owned and managed dairy co-operative, whose products are made from high-quality milk from the lush green pastures of its 3,200 family farms.