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.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    21 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.dk
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      21 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