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What colour is your butter
Jul 30^th, 2008 at 2:32am

This is a question that has been bugging me since I have come back from Dallas and also I was watching the film Wild Hogs yesterday and the butter on there was white to . WHY is the butter there white.

Our butter from Jersey is very yellow, almost egg yolk colour and all the butter I have had in th UK is various shades of yellow, so why is the butter there white, is it to do with the amount of cream in the milk?

Just one of those want to know why questions.

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ClusterChuck CH.com Alumnus Offline The BEAST rises again, and again, and again, and . Posts: 5394 Greenville, North Carolina Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #1 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 2:40am Ummmm ... just a guess here ... They use white cows?
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Re: What colour is your butter
Reply #2 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 2:43am

Ours is mostly from Holsteins.

I presume that most of yours is from Jerseys, since...well, you know. I know that Jersey milk has a higher butterfat content, but I'm not sure that would account for the difference. I have heard that European butter is made in a somewhat different process than butter in the US.

BTW--was the butter in Texas in short, fat sticks or long thin ones? Long thin ones are the norm in the eastern US, and short, fat ones are the norm in the west.

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Paul98 CH.com Alumnus Offline What, it's all in my head? Posts: 2532 Clyde, NY USA Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #3 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 5:21am Fat content of the milk and diet. If I remember correctly the cows in the USA have a higher grain content in their diet. The fresh grass helps give a yellower hue to the butter. -P.
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Bob P CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Shut up Bob! Posts: 4573 Clio,California Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #4 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 6:38am You wouldn't think fat content would matter. Lower fat content would just take more milk to produce a given amount of butter (isn't butter all fat?).
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Re: What colour is your butter
Reply #5 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 8:23am

I believe color in butter comes primarily from the presence of carotene and xanthophyll which are natural compounds present in the feed of cows. If there are higher concentrations of those products in the animal feed, the butter would be darker.

I live in Wisconsin and I can actually remember driving to ILLINOIS in the mid 60's to buy margarine (it was NOT allowed to be sold here). It came as 4 quarters to a pound and was pure white. The package contained a coloring dye that had to be mixed in - by hand - to make it yellowish. The farmers here didn't want anyone to mistake margarine for butter - like that's ever gonna happen.

If you like some esoteric reading, here's a nice web exhibit on butter.

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Brew Ex Member	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #6 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 10:26am And, there is still a law on the books in Wisconsin stating that any restaurant that serves margarine on the table must also provide butter alongside it.
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Reply #7 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 10:29am

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And, there is still a law on the books in Wisconsin stating that any restaurant that serves margarine on the table must also provide butter alongside it.

Good for Wisconsin. Give me the real thing!
The butter I get here is very pale almost white.

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Kimmie CH.com Veteran Offline OW!! Posts: 187 US Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #8 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 10:50am I've been in Ft. Worth since March...I've only seen yellow butter. Does the white taste different? Feel different? Look different? There's a possibility that wasn't even butter!!!
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Kimmie CH.com Veteran Offline OW!! Posts: 187 US Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #9 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 10:51am ClusterChuck wrote on Jul 30^th, 2008 at 2:40am: Ummmm ... just a guess here ... They use white cows? LMAO!!!!
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Reply #10 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 11:02am

CostaRicaKris wrote on Jul 30^th, 2008 at 10:29am:

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And, there is still a law on the books in Wisconsin stating that any restaurant that serves margarine on the table must also provide butter alongside it.

Good for Wisconsin. Give me the real thing!
The butter I get here is very pale almost white.

It's bigger than "the real thing." It's the fact that there's a very strong dairy farm lobby here.

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Reply #11 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 11:22am

After reading up on butter this morning, I found out that the longer butter is processed, the more concentrated the color becomes (whipped butter is lightly processed, contains more air, and is lighter in color). Most butter is churned by machine nowadays and thus closely controlled. The color would depend on the feed of the original producers - cows.

If you get "artisan" or organic butter from small companies/co-ops, then I would assume regional and mechanical differences would occur and the color would show those differences.

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artonio7 Ex Member	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #12 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 12:45pm If I remember correctly my butter is a pale yellow. Because of the fat content I've switched from butter to Smart Balance, which actually helps to reduce the LDL's in the body. I LOVE BUTTER, I always have. As a child I would grab a stick of it and eat it like a candybar.
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Brew Ex Member	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #13 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 12:50pm Quote: I LOVE BUTTER, I always have. As a child I would grab a stick of it and eat it like a candybar. I think you were born in the wrong state, my friend.
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Reply #14 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 1:17pm

My first thought regarding color was, are you actually looking at butter or margarine. The butter that I get here in OR and in NV is a pale yellow. Ive only ever seen margarine that is very yellow.

Maybe the cows that produce yellow butter eat a lot of sunflowers Wink

Or they really need to pee. My mom used to tell me that if I held it to long that the whites of my eyes would turn yellow. Maybe it effects cows as well. Cheesy

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Re: What colour is your butter
Reply #15 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 2:58pm

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I LOVE BUTTER, I always have. As a child I would grab a stick of it and eat it like a candybar.

As a kid, I used to love eating the pretty little butter pats that came to the table with the bread basket in restaurants. Forget the bread, just give me the butter.

And on a related note, even though it's hotter than sin outside, this is one of my favorite times of the year. The fresh, snappy oh-so-sweet corn is coming into the farm stands now.

When Brew asked what's for dinner today, I replied "CORN."

There's nothing that says SUMMER better than butter running down your chin and a niblet stuck between your teeth . . . . .

It's the simple things. (sigh)

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Mosaicwench wrote on Jul 30^th, 2008 at 2:58pm:

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I LOVE BUTTER, I always have. As a child I would grab a stick of it and eat it like a candybar.

As a kid, I used to love eating the pretty little butter pats that came to the table with the bread basket in restaurants. Forget the bread, just give me the butter.

And on a related note, even though it's hotter than sin outside, this is one of my favorite times of the year. The fresh, snappy oh-so-sweet corn is coming into the farm stands now.

When Brew asked what's for dinner today, I replied "CORN."

There's nothing that says SUMMER better than butter running down your chin and a niblet stuck between your teeth . . . . .

It's the simple things. (sigh)

See? I married a poet.

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Mosaicwench CH.com Sponsor Offline www.mosaicwench.com Posts: 3507 Near Milwaukee WI, USA Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #17 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 3:33pm Quote: There's nothing that says SUMMER better than butter running down your chin and a niblet stuck between your teeth . . . . . It's the simple things. (sigh)See? I married a ~~poet~~ pat. Fixed it dear . . . .
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Re: What colour is your butter
Reply #18 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:11pm

Thanks everyone, the web sites made for intresting reading, I know I am sad.

I read the blurb on the chemicals in the food that the cows ate making the colour but to be honest didn't quite understand it all.

It is just differant colours in differant places I guess.

The butter I saw was on the banqueting table and was little white balls, I thought they were coconut balls as they were along side the desserts.

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Paul98 CH.com Alumnus Offline What, it's all in my head? Posts: 2532 Clyde, NY USA Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #19 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:27pm Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or NZ and UK have more grazing time in the field during the year hence a higher carotine content due to the higher grass consumption. Still tastes the same. Yummy! -P.
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Re: What colour is your butter
Reply #20 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:33pm

Paul98 wrote on Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:27pm:

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NZ and UK have more grazing time in the field during the year hence a higher carotine content due to the higher grass consumption.

Still tastes the same. Yummy!

-P.

Now I followed that site so much easier, no confusing with big words, thanks Paul.

And it answered my question Grin

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Jonny Ex Member	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #21 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:49pm mummymac wrote on Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:11pm: I saw was on the banqueting table and was little white balls, I thought they were coconut balls That was just chuck laying on the table.
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mummymac CH.com Alumnus Offline Kissed Donny Osmond and proud of it Posts: 943 Jersey\|United_Kingdom\|europe Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #22 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:52pm Quote: mummymac wrote on Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:11pm: I saw was on the banqueting table and was little white balls, I thought they were coconut balls That was just chuck laying on the table. lol
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echo CH.com Alumnus Offline Chronic and still alive --- I Win! Posts: 4544 Overland Park, KS Gender:	Re: What colour is your butter Reply #23 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 4:54pm Only one butter for me. Yellow Land O Lakes its the Minnesota boy in me.
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Reply #24 - Jul 30^th, 2008 at 7:07pm

I seem to remember that most butter is very light and that coloring was usually added.....when I was a kid. When you made your own margerine......people used to, coloring came with the package.

I use liquid: "I Can't Belive It's Not Butter." It's pretty good, expensive but good. If I make Swede cookies, I spring for the real thing.

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