butter and casein, ghee

[Guest guest]

Katy,

wow, butter has casein? what about clarified butter, ghee? i think

that has milk solids removed from it. but i think you have to heat

it...

does anyone know if there is such thing as RAW ghee?

katy, maybe i should give up, but what about cultured butter? i

would think that would take care of some if not most of the casein,

like with kefir.

laura

I'm casein intolerant and I can't even tolerate raw cream and raw

> butter. :-( I would love to be able to eat butter, because it did

> some really amazing things for my menstrual problems, but it also

> simultaneously does very evil things to my health so I had to give

> it up.

>

> Katy

[Guest guest]

> Katy,

>

> wow, butter has casein? what about clarified butter, ghee? i

think

> that has milk solids removed from it. but i think you have to

heat

> it...

Butter has a small amount of casein – a part of those solids that

are removed when making ghee are casein. I'm currently eating ghee,

but I think the tiny, tiny amount of casein that's left in it is

causing problems so I'm going to avoid it for a couple of months to

see what happens.

> does anyone know if there is such thing as RAW ghee?

Well, the definition of ghee is " cooked and clarified butter " so

technically there's no such thing as raw ghee, but you can use

centrifugal force to separate the solids and make something like raw

clarified butter. WFN for awhile was selling something they called

raw ghee that was separated by centrifugal force.

> katy, maybe i should give up, but what about cultured butter? i

> would think that would take care of some if not most of the

casein,

> like with kefir.

Well, I'm sure open to ideas because I totally love butter. :-)

Cultured butter is a no and kefir made with milk is a big no. This

is actually more common than many think. There's a spin-off NN site

for NN members on gluten-free and casein-free diets and last I

checked, the membership was over 120 and many of these people report

that they can't tolerate butter, kefir, or ghee.

Katy