Butter, without salt

Fun Facts

  1. The origins of butter go back thousands of years to when our ancestors first started domesticating animals. In fact, the first written reference to butter was found on a 4500- year old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made.
  2. In India, ghee (clarified butter) has been used as a staple food, and as a symbol of purity, worthy of offering to the gods in religious ceremonies for more than 3000 years.
  3. The Bible has references to butter as the product of milk from the cow, and of Abraham setting butter and milk from a calf before three angels who appeared to him on the plains of Mamre.
  4. Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A necessary for thyroid and adrenal health.
  5. Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium.
  6. Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children’s brain and nervous system development.

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