I’m almost out of light butter and it’s time to go to the grocery store. I have been buying this light butter with canola oil (image attached) because I would like to keep LDL cholesterol down (though I’m not convinced dietary cholesterol contributes to that number). Is everyone else using real butter or light?
Use real butter for christs sake!
That stuff cannot be even be called butter, look at whats in it!
Butter is the best thing for you. Avoid all margarine, spreads and crap like that.
Oh and yes, there is no evidence that dietary intake of saturated fat leads to an altered lipid profile and a raised LDL-B level.
(There is no such thing as LDL cholesterol, LDL - low density lipoprotein, is a package fat complex for transport, Cholesterol is a seperate molecule that is used in cell membranes to confer fluidity, amongst other things).
This mis-naming bugs me more than anything. As an ex-cardiology doctor I spent half my time explaining what these things were!
Eat real food, live a happy life.
Oops. I use it and I never looked at the ingredients. I’ll continue to use it though. It’s half the calories and spreads nice and thin. And it tastes just like butter. I only use a tiny bit on my bagel in the AM anyway. For serious cooking I use real butter.
It’s actually sort of a challenge keeping up with the “good” oils and the unhealthy oils. Particularly when that changes almost annually (at least in the news).
Yes, unfortuntely the media is the worst thing when it comes to this stuff.
Good -
Butter from grass fed cows
Coconut oil
Lard
Tallow - again grass fed cows
extra virgin olive oil
Ghee
Bad -
SPREADS
vegetable
rapespeed
canola
soybean
nut oils
olive oil that is not extra virgin
Thats pretty much it.
The bad oils are full of PUFA which are pretty redundant in the human body - we are mostly saturated and monounsaturated fats.
They oxidise - cause free radicals - cause cancer - basically!
They provide nothing nutritious.
By the way a calorie isn’t just a calorie, if you are slathering this stuff on a bagel you have gone wrong somewhere on the path of looking after your body.
Oops. I use it and I never looked at the ingredients. I’ll continue to use it though. It’s half the calories and spreads nice and thin. And it tastes just like butter. I only use a tiny bit on my bagel in the AM anyway. For serious cooking I use real butter.
So, let me get this right.
You are nearly out of your current spread and were off to the shops.
You ask for a consensus and get a (single) response to which you respond to say you are going to disregard and carry on with what you are using anyway.
Why bother asking?
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I wasn’t the one who asked the question.
I wasn’t the one who asked the question.
Indeed. Apologies! Misread. Not had afternoon coffee.
Anyway, use butter!
Just so you know, “extra virgin” olive oil is a marketing term and means nothing. As with any food, know the source and you will get quality. Buy cheap and you get cheap.
Apology accepted! Thanks.
Here is the ingredient list from my fav Land O’ Lakes butter:
Ingredients: Sweet Cream, Salt
That’s it. (Both yours and mine have 90g of salt so that’s a wash). Just use half as much and its the same calorie count too!
I kept it local.
Ha! I got burned again.
http://kerrygoldusa.com/...itional-information/
http://kerrygoldusa.com/...ed-fat-irish-butter/
Reduced fat butter that is still just milk, none of the other crap. I challenge you to show me a “light butter” that tastes better that has only milk and salt as ingredients. (When cooking and recipe calls for butter I use the regular Kerry Gold butter because I don’t want to mess up the recipe).
Canola is CRAP OIL. If you enjoy imflammation and pesticide residue, keep on keeping on. Grass Fed Pastured Butter is the only way to go. So from what I can gather, you are going to accept a poor replacement for butter out of the convenience of spreading it. Yeah, whatever!
Yes, unfortuntely the media is the worst thing when it comes to this stuff.
Good -
Butter from grass fed cows
Coconut oil
Lard
Tallow - again grass fed cows
**extra virgin olive oil **
Ghee
Bad -
SPREADS
vegetable
rapespeed
canola
soybean
nut oils
olive oil that is not extra virgin
Thats pretty much it.
The bad oils are full of PUFA which are pretty redundant in the human body - we are mostly saturated and monounsaturated fats.
Canola/rapeseed has twice the amount of PUFA as oil, but this doesn’t mean olive oil contains negligible amounts. if you want to make your point consistent (based on PUFA content), at least get rid of olive from the top of the list
They oxidise - cause free radicals - cause cancer - basically!
They provide nothing nutritious.
By the way a calorie isn’t just a calorie, if you are slathering this stuff on a bagel you have gone wrong somewhere on the path of looking after your body.
tell me what source of energy doesn’t oxidize and lead to generation of free radicals. the way the body metabolize acetyl-coA goes through the electric transport chain, in which quite a bit of radical chemistry take place
i’ll grant that saturated fat is better for frying and high temp applications,
Canola is CRAP OIL. If you enjoy imflammation and pesticide residue, keep on keeping on. Grass Fed Pastured Butter is the only way to go. So from what I can gather, you are going to accept a poor replacement for butter out of the convenience of spreading it. Yeah, whatever!
Whoa, whoa. Tell it to the other guy. I already jumped on the real butter bandwagon hours ago.
No health benefits of any kind of butter. Change to some nice nut butters like almond, cashew, brazilnuts etc. Nuts have solid metabolic advantages. They actually contain some micronutrients and like 30-100 times the protein of butter. Also no animal cruely alive and no link to metabolic illness.
No health benefits of any kind of butter. Change to some nice nut butters like almond, cashew, brazilnuts etc. Nuts have solid metabolic advantages. They actually contain some micronutrients and like 30-100 times the protein of butter. Also no animal cruely alive and no link to metabolic illness.
But there are.
http://authoritynutrition.com/7-reasons-why-butter-is-good-for-you/
Now these nut oil based spreads- what chemicals and substances are added?