Re: Butter Color

[Guest guest]

>>>How important is it that the butter is a deep yellow color? I have

purchased some butter from alpine grass fed cows but it is kind of

pale. It does have a nice and distinct flavor. Would this mean that

it is not high in nutrients? I did buy another brand that is from

Normandy and it is the most yellow out of all the ones I have

purchased.

---->toss the alpine, keep the normandy (unless it's artificially colored).

Suze Fisher

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[Guest guest]

Suze,

you wrote - >toss the alpine, keep the normandy (unless it's artificially

colored)>

----- what's wrong with alpine butter?.....

TIA

Dedy

[Guest guest]

Dedy-

>----- what's wrong with alpine butter?.....

Maybe it's great in other seasons, but all else being equal (i.e. no

artificial colorings being used) the yellower butter is always the more

nutritious butter.

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[Guest guest]

>>>>----- what's wrong with alpine butter?.....

Maybe it's great in other seasons, but all else being equal (i.e. no

artificial colorings being used) the yellower butter is always the more

nutritious butter.

------------->thanks for replying. my lazy self was waiting for someone else

to give the answer ;/

Suze Fisher

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[Guest guest]

At 07:13 PM 3/9/03 +0000, you wrote:

>How important is it that the butter is a deep yellow color?  I have

>purchased some butter from alpine grass fed cows but it is kind of

>pale. It does have a nice and distinct flavor. Would this mean that

>it is not high in nutrients?  I did buy another brand that is from

>Normandy and it is the most yellow out of all the ones I have

>purchased.

Bella,

The alpine this time of year has to be at it's lowest quality because its the

end of winter. They may have the butterwort in their hay that gives their

butter it's excellent quality in the spring when the cows are eating the first

green pasture and the CLA is highest. I'd pick Normandy over that as it

must be

near spring in France now. The pasture, hay, soil quality, consistency of

butter quality and likely the breed, Normande (although unsure of breed in

Switzerland) there is more reliable.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

Wanita, I didn't think about this but it makes perfect sense.

Sometimes it is a bit more yellow and it varies with brand as well I

noticed. I guess I am lucky since vendors are always giving my

husband things to try and he always brings me home things too. This

is how I get to compare things many times. By the way have you tried

the butter oil yet? I am thinking of ordering it for the kids.

B.

> The alpine this time of year has to be at it's lowest quality

because its the

> end of winter. They may have the butterwort in their hay that

gives their

> butter it's excellent quality in the spring when the cows are

eating the first

> green pasture and the CLA is highest. I'd pick Normandy over that

as it

> must be

> near spring in France now. The pasture, hay, soil quality,

consistency of

> butter quality and likely the breed, Normande (although unsure of

breed in

> Switzerland) there is more reliable.

>

> Wanita

[Guest guest]

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> In my opinion, that's not a safe assumption: I don't believe Organic

> Valley would be above coloring their butter as others have done and there's

> no guarantee that those cows are seeing the light of day any more

> than other cowies either. Why don't they make that illegal-- any kind of

> food coloring? Nobody would buy sludge gray margarine then either!

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Leah

[Guest guest]

Unless butter color is added artificially, it changes according to what the

cows are eating. It's typically deep yellow from eating grass of new

spring growth. KL

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:12 AM, jd2mum <jd2mum@...> wrote:

> Since their was a previous discussion about egg yolk coloration I thought

> I would ask about butter coloration. I buy various brands of organic butter

> and I've noticed recently that Organic Valley's butter is a deeper color

> yellow.

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> Is it safe to " assume " that this would be better than the lighter colored

> butter?

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> Thank you,

> Lori

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