It can be a challenge to select the right butter for your needs. I know some people are allergic to milk and have to avoid casein. If you are allergic to milk I Recommend “Ghee” which is an Indian favorite! The Casein is taken out of the Ghee and still has the rich real butter flavor.
You can also go with coconut oil or extra virgin olive oil.
If you have no milk allergy? Just buy real butter! Real butter ingredients is just cream and optional sea salt that’s it! No other funky ingredients!
Grass fed cows produce some vitamin k 12 that prevents the body from cardiovascular disease and contradicts the whole cholesterol argument. Your Dr. might not like to hear that though as cholesterol lowering medication is a Multi-billion dollar cash cow and one of the most prescribed medications in the USA. If your really trying to avoid cow butter try a goat butter.
Other great cow butters Kerry’s gold is grass fed. Even Land o Lakes make a butter that is only cream though beware Land o lakes has the other fake butter that is made out of soy oil and canola oil. I have to admit until just recently i was tricked for over a decade into buying smart balance butter. I thought it was the smart thing to do even though smart balance butter was double the price of other butters. Turns out smart balance butter is just as bad or worse than any other fake butter in the market.
Lets take a look at smart balance butter ingredients
“Natural oil blend (soybean, palm fruit, canola, and olive oils), water, contains less than 2% of whey (from milk), salt, natural and artificial flavor, vegetable monoglycerides and sorbitan ester of fatty acids (emulsifiers), soy lecithin, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, Vitamin D, dl-a-tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), lactic acid, beta carotene color, and potassium sorbate, and calcium disodium EDTA (to preserve freshness)”.
- Soybean oil has shown to wreak havoc on the human body increasing the amount of synthetic female hormones, a possible cancer causer, could lead to infertility, causing prostate issues for men. Most soybean oil is genetically modified.
- Canola Oil is made from the rapeseed plant “which is a natural insect repellent” all canola oil had to be genetically modified in order to decrease Erucic acid which has been found to cause Keshan’s disease, an illness that causes fibrous lesions on the heart. Canola oil goes through an extensive refining process of bleaching, deodorizing, at very high temperatures using Hexan! Hexane is a flammable volatile liquid with a gasoline-like odor. Hexane is a neurotoxin, a narcotic, and an eye irritant damaging the skin, and mucous membranes. Hexane has shown to cause harm to the reproductive system and has been found to be embryotoxic cytotoxic in humans. Canola oil was engineered in Canada the creators combined the name Canada , oil and came up with Canola. Bottom line avoid canola oil like the plague nature never intended it to be good for human consumption. I am surprised Dr. Oz could endorse such a product as canola oil.
- Beta carotenee is added for color to change the industrial gooish gray color that is non appetizing if you saw Bad balance in its real state.
Many people have switched from Smart balance to Earth balance Though not much better Earth balance claims non GMO yet have canola oil and soy oil in it. This earth balance butter will definitely throw your body out of balance if used for extended time.
You can also make a schmear which consists of half real butter and extra virgin cold pressed olive oil. Melt the real butter and blend in the olive oil equal parts and container it add to refrigerator. This way you’re getting the best health qualities of the olive oil with that real buttery taste and doubling the amount! Try it out it’s easy!