How to choose real butter

Who doesn't love delicious, flavorful butter? But often we fall for fakes that are not only not tasty, but also very harmful to the body.

The FoodOboz editorial team decided to remind you in anticipation of Easter and the preparation of festive pastries what you should pay attention to when choosing butter and how to accurately distinguish real butter from spread.

Ingredients

Natural butter should contain only two components: cream and whole milk, and salt to add flavor. But if you see vegetable fats in the composition in addition to these products, then this is already a spread.

It is worth knowing that the composition of the spread includes three times more vegetable fats than dairy fats, or it consists only of vegetable fats. It will also contain various chemicals, thickeners, and emulsifiers.

Flavor

Real butter has a sweet and sour cream flavor. Do not let the slightly sour taste of butter scare you, as it is made from fermented cream. For cooking, a starter with flavor-forming bacteria is added to the cream, which gives the corresponding taste. Sweet cream butter is made simply from regular cream.

Color

Real butter should be yellow or light yellow. If it has a very light, almost white, or vice versa, rich yellow color, dyes or vegetable fats have been added to it.

Fat content

The fat content of real butter should not be lower than 70%. Anything lower is no longer butter made from milk and cream, but simply vegetable oil.

Flavor

The smell should be naturally creamy, which intensifies when heated. If it is too strong, it means that flavors have been used.

Price

Natural butter cannot be cheap, as more than 20 liters of milk are processed to produce 1 kg of butter.

It is very easy to check whether the butter is real at home!

You will need two pieces of butter and two containers of hot water, put the butter in them and stir. If it dissolves and the water becomes evenly cloudy, then it is real milk fat.

The spread will not dissolve, and the water itself will not become cloudy. It will precipitate on the surface of the water in grains.

Remember, real butter completely dissolves in warm water, crumbles and melts evenly, and does not stick to the wrapper.

But it is better, of course, to make the butter yourself, it is very simple!