What is butter
Butter consists of 80 % to 90 % milk fat with a maximum of 16 % water and other milk constituents. Permitted additives include drinking water, salt (we use this only in specially salted butter) and the colorant beta carotene (Pro-Vitamin A). However, you will not find this colorant in our products.
There are various sorts of butter:
  • Sour cream butter
  • Sweet cream butter
  • Cultured butter
They are distinguished by their more or less sour characteristics. The cultured sourness is created with the aid of lactic acid and aroma-forming bacteria.
How is butter manufactured?

Butter is made from cream which contains fat in the form of globules surrounded by a shell or envelope.

The cream is beaten in a churn until the envelopes enclosing the fat globules have been mechanically destroyed. The butter fat thus releases then coagulates and as the kneading process continues the remaining constituents of the cream are separated out. The resulting product is familiar to everyone as butter milk.
 


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