Guest guest Posted November 20, 2001 Report Share Posted November 20, 2001 I'd like to optimize my intake of cod liver oil and need to know if clarified butter/ghee is what is spoken of as butter oil in NT? - - __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2001 Report Share Posted November 21, 2001 > I'd like to optimize my intake of cod liver oil and > need to know if clarified butter/ghee is what is > spoken of as butter oil in NT? - - Hi -: In Weston Price's words, " I have found in these studies that, in the control of dental caries, while the consumption of whole butter is an aid in mineral metabolism, greater potency may be obtained by melting a high vitamin butter and allowing it to crystallize for twenty-four hours at a temperature of about 70 degrees. It is then centrifuged, and, under the process, it separates into an oil that is limpid at that temperature, with a solid crystalline layer below. This oil is much higher in the activating factor than the whole butter. " The high vitamin butter came from 1930s grass fed cows that produced a butter that was a brilliant golden yellow. Price found the color of the butter changed with its nutritional value, with the butter as white as lard having the least nutritional value and the brilliant golden yellow butter having the highest nutritional value. The maximum nutritional value and color both varied with the time of year and the soil fertility growing the green grass. Price doesn't mention it, but I doubt that pasteurization was used in the production of the butter oil. I think clarified butter oil/ghee has been heated. If clarified butter oil/ghee both prevents dental caries and causes existing cavaties to remineralize over then I guess it's just as good as Price's butter oil. I would ask the supplier it the butter oil/ghee does both and see what he or she says. After all, the point of eating food is for its nutritional vaule, is it not? Chi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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