Lidl Morning Fresh Butter

[smurfchops]

Its lovely but does anyone know the country of origin and if its any less healthy than other butters, say, Lurpak?

[Retrochic]

Butter is almost 100% animal fat so is hardly 'healthy!

[diddlydo]

My pack says "Morning Fresh British butter" which gives you a clue as to its origin! And butter is butter, otherwise it has to be called "spread" or similar. Definitely not worth paying over the odds for well-known brands.

[Cloverjo]

The health experts are now saying butter is better for you than 'spreads'. Some fat is good for you; transfats, which are in spreads, are not.
Go for the butter, in small amounts.

[pips1]

I always eat butter, full stop. I also have sugar in my tea. In fact I eat and drink anything I like, I am 64 and never been larger than a size 12. It is all about being sensible, life is too short!

[Alez]

Hi smurfchops!!!!!! Good question you have asked In Butter there is rich in Saturated Fats and in there are short, medium fats which helps you became healthy. If you take once a time everyday that body will be fatter and then you will have good robust health.

[ummmm]

Or try making your own...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-fabulous-baker-brothers/articles/all/homemade-butter-recipe

[theprof]

I'm fascinated by the maths here Retrochic. Butter contains about 81% fat. This is hardly "100% animal fat" in anyone's book. But wait, if we look at the amount of saturated fat in butter, which is what most people are concerned about, the figure is about 49%. So it's fair to say that what is known as "bad fat" in common parlance is only half of any given amount of butter.

50% is a long way from 100%.

Leaving all this to one side, as Cloverjo has indicated, opinion has changed over saturated fats in recent months and indeed, butter is no longer regarded as being "bad" for you. Animal fats cannot be regarded as being unhealthy in this day and age no matter what the literature has said over many decades.

[mccfluff]

and what happened when you tried to make butter ummmmmm :-D :-D

some nutrional info here
Salt: Green (0.15 per 100ml)
Fat: Green (1.7 per 100ml)
Saturated Fat: Green (1.0 per 100ml)
Sugar: Green (5.0 per 100ml)

http://www.supermarketownbrandguide.co.uk/search.php?SearchString=&;lidl=1&orderby=Product

[ummmm]

I used the wrong cream :-)

It has to be proper cream and not something like Elmlea.

[Retrochic]

theprof I suggest before you get clever with me you read carefully what I wrote -I said butter was 'almost' 100% fat . I use only butter, never spreads, but am under no illusions that's its actually 'healthy' . Its better for you than some other forms of fat,yes, healthy no

[Retrochic]

Mcfluff you have pasted the wrong details about the butter -it should be

Salt: Green (0.0 per 100g)
Fat: Red (82.2 per 100g)
Saturated Fat: Red (52.1 per 100g)
Sugar: Green (0.6 per 100g)

[gingejbee]

If the word "British" on the front isn't big enough...the country of origin label on the back says "UK".

[gingejbee]

...and there are three Union flags on the pack, and the address of the dairy in Caerphilly. So, my guess is........

[BlackadderV]

Sorry, but there's only one butter for me; Lurpak. Nothing else will do.

[theprof]

Retrochic, you said "butter is almost 100% animal fat so is hardly healthy". This implies that animal fat is "hardly healthy" given any percentage figure As I said, it's not true. Clarify by making your meaning clear.

As for getting clever with you, it's hardly rocket science. The figures I provided are there for anyone to look at by taking a look at the back of the packet. I have little doubt that millions of consumers have noticed them and I sincerely hope they are clever too. They have no need to pull the nearest copy of McCance & Widdowson off the shelf; now that would be clever.

As I said previously, animal fat is not unhealthy. To clarify, the same stands be it 1% or 100%.

[theprof]

There is no way that either 81% or 49% of any given product can be regarded as 100% which is what has been implied here by both posts. The word "almost" is meaningless.

[smurfchops]

Diddlydo its pale blue and just says Morning Fresh Unsalted Butter. On the back I can just see with a magnifying glass packed in UK using butter from more than one country. Thanks all

[Retrochic]

theprof seriously you need to get out more......

[grasscarp]

not quite what you are asking, but I like Lurpak and I LOVE President

[theprof]

I do Retrochic. Everywhere from my UK university job to those visiting professorships I do in USA and elsewhere. All the same, I learnt how to do percentages in my teenage years at school many years ago. Did you do them?