I looked at my butter today, the ingredients are:

  • butter oil
  • milk powder

What the hell is butter oil? I tried googling it, but I get VERY contradictory results, nothing from a reputable source I could find.

  • GreyShuck@feddit.ukEnglish
    30·
    23 days ago

    Checking the ones that I usually buy the ingredients are:

    • Butter

    Or, if I go for salted versions:

    • Butter
    • Salt
  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    14·
    23 days ago

    I think it’s illegal, at least in Europe, to call something butter when its not.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      You’re right and i love it. Customers shouldn’t be taken for absolute numbnuts.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    10·
    23 days ago

    Butter oil is, in my understanding, the fats from butter after everything else has been removed. In that sense it’s not unlike clarified butter, but probably made with a centrifuge rather than heat. Adding milk powder (and presumably some water) sounds like basically adding back in what got removed to make the butter oil. I would hazard a guess that this is done because both butter oil and milk powder separately have far longer shelf lives than butter does

    So I think that it’s basically the same components as regular butter, they’ve just been separated out and then recombined. I have no idea if this does anything to the flavour

    • leds@feddit.dkEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      Might also be to get a consistent product , fat percentages probably vary, by taking it apart and putting always the same amounts together again they can always make it taste the same. I believe they do the same with orange juice

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    9·
    23 days ago

    Does your butter say just “butter” on the label, or something like “butter product?” Check the fine print, because that’s not butter

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    22 days ago

    Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, MSG, Butylated Hydroxyanisole, Propyl Gallate, Diacetyl, High-Fructose Corn Syrup (obv.), Tartrazine, Monosodium Glutamate, Salt, and traces of butter solids. Mmmmmm. Tasty.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    23 days ago

    That’s not butter then.

    Butter should include 100% butter, full stop.

    Butter oil sounds like clarified butter that’s been thickened up with milk powder or something?

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    23 days ago

    Oil. From butter. Duh. /s

    p.s. You’re gonna love it when you find out how much cacao is in “white chocolate”.

  • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    Upon further inspection:

    Ingredients :

    • Butter Oil 80.5%
    • Milk powder 2%
    • Salt: 1.5%
    • Contains milkd powder and may contain soy products.