Butter is a source of natural fats and vitamin A that the human body needs. That is why consumers need to be confident in the product they buy. How to distinguish it from a fake?
Instructions
Step 1
Butter is a product made exclusively from cow's milk or its constituent elements. Milk fat in it is necessarily 50-85%. Sometimes the oil contains salt. Therefore, immediately consider the packaging, which describes the composition of the product. If it lists coconut, palm, peanut oil or other vegetable fats, as well as milk fat substitutes, then it is margarine.
Step 2
Learn to recognize the type of food item. There is butter "sweet and creamy", which is made only on the basis of pasteurized cream. There is also "sour cream": made from the same cream, pasteurized, but with the addition of lactic acid microorganisms.
Step 3
Understand that the consumer packaging of butter must contain the name. For example, "tea oil", "sandwich butter", "peasant butter", "amateur butter", "butter". Pay attention when the wrapper only says "OIL" in large letters. At the bottom it will be ascribed, as a rule, in small print "sandwich product" or "sandwich mass". This oil is not real, but a mixture of animal and vegetable fats.
Step 4
Consider the food price. Natural butter cannot be cheap. In order to obtain 1 kg of the finished product, the production of butter implies the processing of at least 20 liters of milk. If we take into account the purchase price of 1 liter of milk in bulk and the fact that other products are made from it along the way, then the retail price of a kilogram of good butter will be about 10 bags of the cheapest retail milk.
Step 5
Large letters of GOST are not always evidence of real butter, since there are also GOSTs on margarines and spreads. Remember the numbers that should appear after the letters GOST - R 52969-2008.
Step 6
If the oil has already been purchased, you can check it using “home” methods. The oil should be of a uniform consistency. If it has stood in a warm place, and water droplets have appeared on its surface, then this is not oil. Dissolve a piece in warm water. Real oil will mix evenly and will not break down into separate elements. The color of the oil should not be too yellow or completely white. Smell the product - butter should not smell.
