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
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    102 months 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

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months 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